Saving His Little Miracle (Mills & Boon Medical) by Jennifer Taylor Read Free Book Online

and was stunned by the thought and by the one that followed it: he could happily live here and spend time with his family.
    Vincenzo closed his eyes, shutting out the view. He didn’t want to be tempted into making a decision he would regret. His life was in Italy and it was madness to think of uprooting himself. There was too much tying him to his home country like his work, for instance, and... What?
    His mind stalled. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t think of another reason why he needed to remain in Italy. Although he had many acquaintances there, he had very few friends and most of them he saw only infrequently. They met for dinner or a drink once or twice a year at the most. They wouldn’t really miss him if he moved away; he wouldn’t miss them either and that seemed like the most damning indictment of all. There was no one on this earth that he would really and truly miss.
    Except Lowri.
    Vincenzo’s eyes flew open, his heart racing as he stared out of the taxi window. He had barely spared Lowri a thought in the past five years so why in heaven’s name did he imagine that he would miss her? And yet, deep down, in that place where his heart resided, he knew it was true. He would miss her if she disappeared from his life now, he would miss her an awful lot too.
    * * *
    Lowri was about to go for lunch when there was a crisis in PICU. Poppy Meadows’s sats plummeted, setting off the alarm on her monitor. Lowri hurried to the bay. Amy Dempster, the staff nurse, was already there so Lowri asked her to escort Poppy’s parents to the relatives’ room. The last thing they needed was terrified parents getting in the way.
    She placed an oxygen mask over Poppy’s face but it didn’t help very much. The child was still having problems breathing so as soon as Amy came back Lowri asked her to page Simon Rivers, the surgeon who had operated on the child. She sighed when Amy came back to tell her that Simon was in Theatre and couldn’t leave his patient. How typical that this should happen when the consultant was unavailable.
    ‘He’s sending Cameron Howard instead,’ Amy informed her, and grimaced. Cameron was one of the registrars and highly unpopular on the unit. He had an overbearing manner that didn’t go down well with either the staff or patients.
    ‘How long will he be?’ Lowri asked, adopting a neutral expression. Cameron had become rather a nuisance lately. He had asked several of the single nurses out and she had a nasty feeling that she was next on his list, seeing as they had all refused. She sighed. She could only hope that he wouldn’t start pestering her today. She had enough to cope with without thinking about dating him or anyone else.
    The thought immediately reminded her of Vincenzo and she felt heat flow through her. As she checked Poppy’s sats again, Lowri could feel her heart racing. As soon as the DNA results came back, they would have to proceed to the next stage in her plan. Whilst part of her wanted to get it over with as soon as possible, another part balked at the idea of what needed to be done. It seemed so cold-blooded to conceive this child through artificial insemination and yet what was the alternative? That she and Vincenzo should sleep together, turn what was in truth a practical solution to this problem into a romantic assignation?
    Lowri snorted in disgust and saw Amy look at her in surprise. Fortunately, there was no time for the nurse to ask any questions because Cameron had arrived. He came striding into the unit, brimming over with self-importance.
    ‘Problems?’ he demanded, stopping by the bed.
    Lowri quickly outlined what had happened, quashing the thought that he could see for himself what was going on if he cared to look. However, if Cameron enjoyed the feeling of power it gave him to have her explain, then so be it. He nodded when she finished, adopting his gravest expression, the one they all believed he practised in front of his mirror: brilliant young