The Vet's Secret Son by Annie O'Neil

Author:Annie O'Neil
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-06-03T11:49:54+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘LUC!’ ELLIE KNOCKED on the guest flat door. ‘You in there?’

No answer.

She glanced out at the bay beyond the flat’s balcony. The summer sun was just dipping below the horizon, the sea sparkling like diamonds. A perfect night for a romantic stroll...

Er... No, it wasn’t. It was a perfect night to perform surgery on a Labrador retriever who could very likely die if someone didn’t answer his blinking door soon!

‘Lucas?’ She tried again, tapping her foot impatiently. Maybe he was out. Urgh. Not tonight! She needed him. She glanced at her watch then out at the clinic car park. They’d be arriving any minute now.

She blinked back some frustrated tears. She wasn’t sad. Or mad. She was tired, mostly. The last few months of trying to run everything with Drew in hospital had been wearing. Just having him back in Dolphin Cove eased her stress. Saying that, with the amount of rehab he was still facing? The truth of the matter was Drew was still several weeks away from consulting let alone operating. A hard-hitting reminder that the clinic ran much better with two vets and even more smoothly with three.

She knocked again. C’mon, c’mon, c’mon! Answer the bloody door!

Maybe he’d gone into the village to visit Drew. When he could prise him out of the house, that was. Drew had definitely become a bit of a hermit. She reeled back through the evening. Nope. Not likely. She’d been down at the Pelican an hour ago to give Mav a goodnight kiss before he went upstairs for Grandma and Grandpa night, a summertime special. She’d not seen Lucas or Drew and Drew would have definitely pulled her aside for an update on the ‘Lucas situation’.

Meaning had she decided to fall in love with him again? Drew thought she would. Ellie insisted she wouldn’t. Out loud anyway. They’d achieved a perfectly civilised working relationship and she made sure not to be too protective when it came to the time he wanted to spend with Mav. Ignoring the way her heart pounded when she saw the two of them together or the way her body responded whenever his hands brushed against hers was rather tricky but...she was made of stern stuff. She had to stay strong. Resistant to the Lucas Effect.

She banged on the door again. ‘Lucas!’ She was going to have to do this on her own if he didn’t answer in thirty seconds.

She racked her mind. Where could he be? Apart from the pub and a couple of small restaurants, there wasn’t really anywhere else to go in Dolphin Cove. Not at this hour anyway. He’d said something about running some errands for Drew a couple of days back. But errands at nine o’clock at night?

Her heart lurched up into her throat.

He wouldn’t...no, he wouldn’t be out on a date, would he? Not that she cared. He could do what he liked with his life as long as he didn’t hurt Mav.

She pictured him laughing with another woman and reaching out to hold her hand.

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