patients.”
Without responding, he turned his attention to Margaret, his big body leaning over hers protectively, talking in that same low, gentle voice he’d never used on Faith.
She should be thankful for small favors, because that voice he didn’t share with her made her tummy quiver and her legs feel funny. Boneless.
She really wished she’d had some chocolate.
MARGARET DELIVERED A beautiful eight-pound girl—without the epidural.
Faith delivered herself a pounding tension headache, the kind she’d had daily once upon a time, when she’d worked at the hospital.
“I need a new set of scrubs,” Luke told her a couple of hours later on a rare two-minute break between patients.
“Fine.” She strode down the hall, jerked open the supply closet and flipped on the light. She could smell him behind her, and one would think after hours of working with patients and running at a fast pace, he’d at least smell like it, but no. He smelled delicious, quite frankly. “How do you do that?” she asked grumpily.
“Do what?”
“Still smell good.” She didn’t point out how annoying that was. Or that her nose was straining to catch the scent of him.
“My mother always told me to smell good.”
That startled a laugh out of her. “Really?”
“No.” He was smiling. Good Lord, he shouldn’t do that, because like his voice, it did funny things to her insides. “My mom didn’t tell me anything,” he said. “She had the nanny do it.”
“Ah. Poor little rich boy, Dr. Walker?”
“Luke. And nah, not rich. My mother just didn’t like messy things, and my brother and I were about as messy as they came.”
No. No, she didn’t want to hear this, that he was human, that he’d had a mother who hadn’t mothered him, that he had a brother he’d obviously shared a lot with, that he…that he just might have had as lonely a childhood as she.
She found him a pair of scrubs, and as she pulled them off the shelf, she fought back a laugh. Pink flowered scrubs. Smiling at the petty revenge, she turned around to hand them to him and found him much closer than she’d anticipated, as he’d stepped into the supply room behind her, craning his neck to check out the shelves. The last time she’d been this close to him, this morning, in fact, he’d been only half-dressed and tousled. Now his short, spiky dark hair had been combed, though his jaw still showed a shadow, probably because she’d given him the bum’s rush, not giving him time to breathe, much less shave. It didn’t change the potency of being this close to him. So close she could have leaned in a fraction of an inch and—
“Nicely stacked.”
She watched his lips move, heard the words, and her jaw fell open as she looked down at the front of her scrubs, which so effectively hid her breasts. She had no idea how he’d—
“The shelves,” he repeated slowly, frowning at her reaction. “They’re nicely stocked. Organized.”
Nicely stocked. Stocked, you idiot. Good God, she needed to get it together. This was her arena, her clinic, and lust, or whatever had happened to her genes and hormones since she’d set eyes on him, didn’t have a place. Nope, no matter how big, bad and pulse-jerkingly magnificent the man standing close enough to grope was, she needed to ignore it all. “Um…thanks.” He’d complimented the clinic. Okay…maybe this could work, maybe they could find a happy medium—
“For a froufrou clinic,” he added.
Nope. No happy medium.
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