href="#u49cb0b47-3ead-5b40-95e7-c315cdb43d0f">New York Doc, Thailand Proposal
New York Doc, Thailand Proposal
Dianne Drake
Worlds apart
But reunited by love!
Surgeons Layla and Arlo once shared a connection like no other, but they’re total opposites: Layla’s heart belongs to New York, while Arlo won’t ever work in a big-city hospital. Only, when Arlo’s remote practice needs her help, Layla finds herself heading out to Thailand! As they work side by side, Layla begins to see jungle life through Arlo’s eyes Is a proposal in paradise enough to give life together a second chance?
To Mike Cramer, one of the hardest-working
and best doctors I ever knew.
The world is a little less bright without you,
my friend. RIP.
“I KNOW WHAT we were, Mother. But two years deserves a better ending than what we had, and when this opportunity came”
Dr. Oliver Benedict, Layla Morrison’s boss, mentor and, yes, Arlo’s grandfather, had three spots open for volunteers—specifically the three candidates he was looking at to be his new assistant chief of surgery.
“No, I don’t know if Arlo knows I’m the one Ollie picked for this assignment. It’s only been five days from the time he gave me the nod until now, and Ollie specifically said communication with Arlo wasn’t always available. So, yes, I might be a surprise.”
But the need was legitimate. According to Ollie, Arlo was alone right now. His medical assistant had gone home to India for a while and after living with Arlo for two years herself, and listening to him talk about the way he wanted to practice medicine here, in Thailand, Layla knew what she was getting herself into.
Jungle medicine. Nothing easy. Nothing convenient. It was hard work. Sometimes backbreaking. And it was so embedded in Arlo’s heart it had caused their break-up. Two years into their relationship and the call of the jungle had beaten her.
“NO, I don’t know if this will give me a lock on a promotion, but it will finally give me some closure. We didn’t have that. It was too difficult at the end and we were both hurt. So, I’m hoping that this will help me, maybe even Arlo, finally move on.”
Layla had had one disastrous attempt at a relationship after Arlo and had compared everything Brad did against the way Arlo had done it. Nothing could compare, though, and now it was time to fix that so she could finally move on with her personal life since the professional side was rolling along
