What the Doctor Didn't Tell Her by Jacqueline Diamond

Author:Jacqueline Diamond [Diamond, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: medical romance, secret baby, single father
Publisher: K. Loren Wilson
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

For the next week, Sarah spoke to Daniel as little as possible, and deleted his texts and emails. All he did was apologize for his clumsiness and repeat that the two of them needed to talk. Why? So he could formulate a more effective plan to manipulate her?

At home, Betsy watched her anxiously but didn’t pry. All Sarah had said, on arriving at home Saturday evening, had been, “Daniel isn’t what he appears.”

The following Friday night, when Nina stayed over while Daniel worked a labor and delivery shift, Sarah heated pre-cooked turkey sausage in the microwave and fixed a salad. The stove wasn’t working properly; her mother had ordered a replacement to be installed on Monday.

Betsy kept casting sad glances in Sarah’s direction. For goodness sake, did her mother have to fall for Daniel, too? He sure knew how to pile on the charm when it suited him.

After watching an animated film with Nina curled on her lap, Sarah put the little girl to bed. She’d grown too attached to distance herself from the child.

In her own room, Sarah tossed and turned. When Daniel learned of the opening at Jane and Luke’s practice, why had he been so eager to join the staff? Surely he had plenty of other opportunities.

Mentally, she replayed their last encounter. What exactly had he said? Could she have misjudged him, or were her doubts simply another sign of how susceptible she was?

Sarah fell asleep at last, only to be awakened by the shrill of the phone. It was the charge nurse in labor and delivery.

“There must be something in the water,” the woman said apologetically. “We’ve had a rush of women in labor, and Dr. Durand’s performing an emergency Caesarian section. I know it isn’t your night, but can you please come in?”

Sarah checked the clock. Three a.m. Oh, well, she’d had five hours’ sleep, which ought to suffice. “I’ll be right there.”

Leaving a note for Betsy in the living room, she hurried out. At this hour, she drove rather than walked, arriving at the hospital barely in time to deliver a baby. The mother, who already had four children, gave birth easily and quickly. Two more uncomplicated births followed.

A new patient was admitted, a woman six weeks before her due date, carrying twins. Although it would have been preferable to delay the births, labor had progressed too far. To further complicate matters, the first baby was in the breech position, with feet first, which posed additional dangers.

After a phone consultation with the patient’s obstetrician, who was out of town for the weekend, Sarah called for an operating room. Fortunately, Daniel was almost finished with his surgery and could take over the other patients.

She was about to begin the operation when Daniel poked his head into the room. “I apologize for interrupting your night off.”

“That’s hardly your fault.”

He glanced at the other staff and the parents, who couldn’t help overhearing. “How about breakfast in the cafeteria as soon as we’re done?”

Might as well get that discussion over with.

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