Twins for Christmas by Alison Roberts

Author:Alison Roberts [Roberts, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Medical
ISBN: 9781460889329
Google: 8Hj_g5Cobn4C
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises, Australia Pty Limited
Published: 2012-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

‘SO YOU’LL MAKE SURE everything in the bus is kept safe? Particularly those Christmas presents?’

‘I’m onto it,’ the young policeman assured Rory. He unclipped the radio from the shoulder strap of his protectivevest. ‘You just leave it with me.’

Knowing that the gifts intended for the children would eventually reach their destination was satisfying.

So was discovering that he’d been right about the extent of Mary Ballantyne’s injuries and that it wouldn’t be long before she could be discharged.

Braden Foster, who was treating Mary now, had also been able to give a report on Michael’s surgery, and the news was good.

‘He’ll make it,’ Braden had said. ‘Thanks to you.’

‘It was a team effort,’ Rory had responded.

Like the way the staff were currently dealing with the overcrowded department. Efficiently and cheerfully. Judy was still here—and hadn’t someone said she was supposed to go off duty some time ago? If he was still head of department here he would be proud of them all.

Even the orderly, who was wearing a pair of red felt reindeer horns on his head as he came past with an empty wheelchair.

‘Could I borrow that?’

‘Sure. Merry Christmas, Doc.’

‘You, too.’ Rory pushed the wheelchair towards the cubicles. He had one more request to honour, and then he was going to do something for himself.

Or rather for Kate.

For both of them, perhaps.

Things were starting to clear in his head. He was being given an opportunity here to repay Kate for what she had given him—albeit unwittingly. He could make life easier for her. Support her.

He wouldn’t have chosen to become a father, but it was happening—and, dammit, if he was going to be a father he was going to be the best he could possibly be.

Pulling back the curtain, he found Kate helping Florence to sit up.

‘Just take things easy,’ she warned her patient. ‘You’ve had a bump on the head and you’ve been lying down for quite a while. You might well find you’re a bit dizzy if you try and get on your feet too quickly.’

‘Mary’s fine,’ Rory informed Florence. ‘She’s about to have a small blood vessel in her nose cauterised, and when the bleeding’s definitely stopped the fracture will need strap ping. She’d like to talk to you.’ He smiled as he deftly manoeuvred the wheelchair into the cubicle. ‘Your chariot, ma’am.’

‘I don’t need that.’ Florence slid her not in considerable weight onto her feet. Seconds later she paled and clutched Kate’s arm.

Kate helped lower her into the wheelchair. ‘Better?’

Florence still looked pale. And not very happy. ‘How am I going to help Mary with the children if I come over all peculiar when I stand up?’

‘Give it some time,’ Rory advised as he turned the chair and started wheeling Florence to where Mary was being treated. ‘Nobody’s going anywhere for a while yet, and I prescribe a nice hot cup of tea.’

There was another prescription he was going to make as soon as he could. One for Kate.

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