Needed: Full-Time Father (Medical Romance) by Carol Marinelli Read Free Book Online Page B

Madison said, glad that he had got the drift. ‘No doubt the receptionist at my old hospital is having to pull out a wheelbarrow to send over her old notes. She’s had multiple operations, numerous admissions, she’s made a complete fool of me on more than one occasion and she may be about to again, but…’
    ‘You don’t think that she’s faking it this time?’
    ‘I don’t know,’ Madison admitted. ‘I just can’t judge it with Judith, but I do believe that she’s scared, and she’s actually admitted that she’s lied to get seen over the last few days. I’ve probably just had the most honest conversation ever with her, but whether this is just an even more elaborate scheme of hers to drag us in, I can’t say. I think she needs a senior doctor to look at her.’ Madison glanced over at Brad, an exceptionally eager intern. ‘She’d wipe the floor with him.’ Madison sighed. Looking back, she was slightly startled to see Guy smiling at her observation—not the rather mocking smile he had worn when he’d put his ID badge on yesterday, but a kinder, gentler smile that lit up his eyes,made him, for a moment, look as young as Brad. Madison was startled at the effect it had on her. Guy Boyd embodied everything she avoided in a man.
    ‘Well, then, I’d better take a look,’ Guy said, taking the card from Madison. ‘Would you mind coming with me? Given that you know her, no doubt you’ll realise, sooner than I, if she’s up to her tricks.’
    ‘Doctor?’ Alanna was back from her coffee-break, blushing furiously as she looked up at Guy, and Madison was sure it had nothing to do with his seniority and everything to do with six feet three of tousled, rugged sex appeal. ‘Could you, please, write up a new IV order for cubicle eight? The saline’s just about through.’
    ‘Sure,’ Guy said easily, taking the card, apparently not noticing Alanna’s furious blush. But he was probably used to women being three shades of crimson darker when he was around. In his world, no doubt, it was entirely normal to have women acting like gauche teenagers. The jeans had gone, instead he was dressed today in theatre greens and a pair of sneakers. A stethoscope hung from his neck and a pen was in the V-neck of his top. He pulled out the pen and started writing up the further IV order. His ID badge was clipped to the top pocket and, despite the unflattering lines of the theatre greens, it was evident there was a toned body beneath, a deeply tanned toned body, Madison mentally added, seeing the sun-bleached hairs on his forearms as he filled in the orders and handed the card back to Alanna. ‘I’ll be in to check on him soon. Can you let the patient know that I haven’t forgotten him?’
    ‘Right.’ He smiled again at Madison. ‘Let’s go and say hi to Judith.’
    ‘Good morning, Mrs Baker.’ Supremely polite, he entered the cubicle. ‘I hear that you have some stomach pain.’
    ‘I have,’ Judith sobbed. ‘And no one believes me. For the last four days I’ve been trying to get someone—’
    ‘Forget about that now,’ Guy cut in, his voice crisp and commanding. ‘Can you tell me when the pain started?’
    ‘On Saturday,’ Judith replied. ‘I woke up with it.’
    ‘Any vomiting?’
    ‘Lots.’
    ‘OK.’ Guy nodded. ‘And have you had a fever?’ He looked down at the casualty card, which gave Judith’s low temperature reading.
    ‘I did, I really did, Doctor. I know it isn’t up now but I was shaking and sweating. I took it myself and it was over forty degrees.’
    ‘How did you get to…?’ He frowned as he picked up one of the medicine bottles, looking at the name of the chemist that had dispensed the drug.
    ‘Moe,’ Judith answered for him. ‘I asked a friend to drive me and finally we found a doctor’s surgery that had a doctor who would take a look at me, someone who didn’t know who I was. I’d tried to be seen by a few of the local doctors but I’m blacklisted.’
    ‘Why’s