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MISTLETOE KISS WITH THE HEART DOCTOR

Marion Lennox

‘Oh, she wanted him. She ached for him. Her whole body felt as if it was surrendering.

She was being kissed and she was kissing. He didn’t need to balance on his bad leg because she was holding him.

Maybe it could count as therapy, she thought, almost hysterically. Helping patient stand. Maybe this was a medical tool designed to make him feel better.

It was surely making her feel better. Every sense seemed to have come alive. Every nerve ending was tingling.

More. Every single part of her was screaming that she wanted this man, she needed this man, that she wouldn’t mind in the least if they fell back on the bed and…

Um, not in a million years. Not!

Because this was a hospital ward and any minute the door could open as a nurse arrived for routine obs. This was a patient and she was a doctor and… Shut up, Elsa, she told her inner self fiercely. Just let this moment be. So she did. Her mind shut down and she let herself just kiss. And be kissed. The kiss was deep and long and magical, and as it finally ended it was as much as she could do not to weep. But Marc was still holding her. He had her at arm’s length now, smiling into her eyes with such tenderness that…

No! She made a herculean effort to haul herself together. This was way past unprofessional. She could just about get herself struck off the medical register for this.

But right now she was having trouble thinking that it mattered, whether she was struck off or not. For Marc was smiling at her, and that seemed to be the only thing that mattered in the whole world.

But this was still well out of order. This man’s life was in Sydney. It could only ever be a casual fling.

Oh, but his smile…

`About that date…’ he ventured, and she needed to shake her head but all she could do was look up into his deep eyes and sense went right out the window.

But then reality suddenly slammed back with a vengeance. The hospital speaker system cracked into life and she heard Kim, one of the hospital’s junior nurses. Even through the dodgy hospital intercom she heard the fear in Kim’s tone.

`Code Blue. Nurses’ station. Code Blue.’

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MISTLETOE KISS WITH THE HEART DOCTOR

Marion Lennox

Available next month