Dr. Campbell's Secret Son by Anne Fraser Read Free Book Online

everything perfectly first time.’ But she looked interested and her tears were beginning to dry up.
    Sarah laughed. ‘That’s just because people think doctors know everything but we don’t. We’re just the same as everyone else underneath. I promise you, I shed a good few tears when I first tried to feed my baby. But you know what? I had someone who spent quite a bit of time showing me how it was done and sat with me until I felt confident. Would you like me to help you?’
    ‘Could you? I mean, are you sure you’re not too busy?’
    ‘Too busy to help a fellow mum? Never. Here, let me help you fix baby on.’ Sarah perched on the bed beside Lucy and her infant.
    Within a few moments and after only one or two false starts the baby was sucking contentedly at her mother’s breast.
    Lucy and Sarah smiled at each other. ‘There you go! I’ll come up later and see how you’re getting on.’ Sarah noticed Lucy’s eyes drift towards the door. She turned around to find Jamie standing there, his expression inscrutable. She had no idea how long he’d been watching them.
    ‘I can see you have your hands full, Mrs Croy,’ he said. ‘I’ll come up and see you another time.’ He nodded to Sarah. ‘Ready?’
    As Sarah and Jamie were about to leave, one of the nursing staff came bustling over. She was small and curvaceous with dark hair tied in a thick plait that fell down her back.
    ‘Jamie, are we still on for tonight?’ She touched him on the shoulder with a familiarity that set Sarah’s teeth on edge. Was this woman the reason he hadn’t called last night? Not that his love life was anything to do with her, she reminded herself.
    ‘Sure. I’m on call, so we can’t eat anywhere too far from the hospital.’ Jamie slid a look in Sarah’s direction. ‘By the way, this is my colleague and the accident and emergency’s new head of department, Dr Sarah Carruthers. Sarah, this is Annie Walker, midwife in charge of the postnatal ward.’
    Annie looked at Sarah appraisingly. ‘Pleased to meet you. Nice work yesterday, by the way. I’ve never seen such beautiful stitching,’ she said warmly. ‘Lucy has a lot to thank you and Jamie for.’ Annie looked at Jamie with blatant admiration. ‘Let’s not go out. Why don’t I cook and we can have a lazy night in?’ Her eyes twinkled, leaving Sarah in no doubt as to the kind of lazy night she had in mind.
    ‘Nice to meet you, but if you’ll both excuse me, I have work to do.’ If Jamie thought she had nothing better to do than be a witness to his love life then he was much mistaken. ‘I’ll see you back in the department once I’ve been to see Mr James.’ She was aware she sounded a little frosty, but couldn’t help herself.
    Jamie glanced at her, amusement warming his eyes. A half-smile played on his lips. ‘I’ll be along in a minute.’
    Grief, he couldn’t possibly think she was jealous. Sarah glared at him before turning on her heel.
    Mr James was still in Intensive Care, but the nursing staff expected him to be moved out to the cardiology ward in a day or two. His wife, an elderly lady with bright eyes and a shock of white hair, was by his bedside.
    ‘This is Dr Carruthers, Mary.’ Mr James’s voice was raspy from the tube that he’d had in earlier to help him breathe, and Sarah knew it would take a couple of days for any residual swelling to dissipate. ‘She saved my life.’
    Mary wrapped Sarah’s hands in hers.
    ‘Thank you so much, Doctor. He’s a grumpy old so and so, but he’s very precious to me.’
    ‘We were only doing our job. But although he seems to be doing well, he’s not out of the woods quite yet.’ She didn’t want to frighten the elderly couple, but a ruptured aorta, serious enough in a younger man, could be devastating in a man of Bill’s years. She turned to the old man. ‘You had us a little baffled for a while. Luckily for us, Dr Campbell picked up on your husband’s condition in time.’
    ‘Where is that young