Children's Doctor, Meant-To-Be Wife by Meredith Webber

Children's Doctor, Meant-To-Be Wife by Meredith Webber

Author:Meredith Webber [Meredith Webber]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781408902493
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2008-06-06T16:00:00+00:00


Holding his shoes in one hand, he headed for the door, muttering now, but words Beth couldn’t hear. Then, just as she was resigned to him walking out and probably never talking to her again, he turned, glared at her, and said, ‘I didn’t have to marry you!’

CHAPTER SIX

ACCEPTING, after an hour of fruitless tossing and turning, that she wasn’t going to sleep, Beth got up and headed for the shower. She’d go back up and relieve Marcia by Robbie’s bed.

As water splashed down on her head, anxiety for the children who were supposed to be having a wonderful holiday simmered inside her, although it had been subdued for a while by the turbulent emotions Angus’s return into her life had caused.

But now he was gone again—his departure unmistakably final, so even if she did see him around the place, they would be meeting as colleagues, not almost-lovers.

She soaped her body all over, rubbing at her skin, actions automatic as her mind followed the trail of Angus.

No, she was damned if she was going to sigh over what had happened. Bad enough that she’d lost sleep.

So what if she and Angus were still attracted to each other?

So what if she’d upset him by her sudden refusal to make love?

Shampoo bubbles cascaded down her face.

She’d upset herself as well—badly—wanting him, aching for him, yet not lost enough in lust to risk what had happened before.

And if he thought she’d pulled away because of what he called her obsession to not have another child, then he could go on thinking that. Better that he thought her a little batty than realised just how much guilt she’d carried over that first pregnancy.

Lifting her head, she let the water stream down her face, hiding tears she wasn’t going to admit were there, rinsing out the conditioner from her hair.

By the time she’d dried herself off, combed the tangles from her hair and dressed in clean clothes, she was Dr Beth Stuart again, competent medical practitioner, in charge of the new Wallaby Island Medical Centre.

Mature!

This façade crumpled only slightly when she reached Robbie’s bed and found Angus sitting beside the pale, still child.

Beth stood inside the door, wanting to turn away but knowing it was too late.

‘I’ve nothing better to do so I thought I might sit with him for a while. Being in the centre helps me concentrate my mind on what might be happening. I have to consider what else it is, if it’s not bird flu.’

‘You—’ Beth began to speak then realised she didn’t have the words she needed, so stared at him instead, disbelief vying with anger.

Anger won and she began again.

‘You stalk out of my place, angry because one of us happened to have enough common sense to think about unwanted pregnancies, then come up here to sit beside a child you don’t even know. I know I never understood you, Angus, but you sure as hell never understood me either.’

His turn to frown.

‘What do you mean?’

Don’t sigh! Stay mad!

But mad—angry mad—was something Beth found difficult to sustain, though she did swallow the sigh.



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