Wedding on the Baby Ward / Special Care Baby Miracle by Lucy Clark Read Free Book Online

impatient and demanding visiting consultants.’
    She stopped walking and he stopped right beside her. Janessa looked up at him, wondering if this was another one of his tests or if he was being serious. She searched his eyes, looking for a clue to help gauge his mood, and then immediately wished she hadn’t.
    His eyes were so blue, so bright, so clear, like the sky on a cloudless day, and even though the light outside was starting to fade, looking into Miles’s eyes made her feel the same way she felt when she was up in her plane, soaring above the ground, without a care in the world. It was odd. No man had ever made her feel that way before. She sighed slowly and then closed her eyes, not wanting to be affected by him and cross with herself because it was clear that she was. He was her colleague and she had to remember that, to treat him with the same level of polite indifference she treated the other surgeons who slipped in and out of her unit.
    When she opened her eyes, she made sure she didn’t look at him directly in case she lost her train of thought again. ‘What do you want, Miles? I’m off duty, I’m tired—’
    ‘And you’re hungry. I was thinking … dinner? I’m new in town and have no clue which restaurants are the good ones.’
    She shrugged. ‘You can get a list from Reception at the residential wing.’ She started walking again, wanting to get back to the privacy of her own room so she could relax and unwind and forget all about Miles Trevellion and the way he seemed to fill her entire body with tingles every time he looked at her.
    ‘Actually, that was my attempt at asking you to join me. Sorry. Should have made that clear.’
    Janessa stopped short and stared at him. ‘You want to have dinner with me?’
    ‘Yes. You’re hungry. I’m hungry. I thought we could eat together. Clear the air a little.’
    ‘If you’re referring to the way you bawled out an agency nurse earlier to the effect that she’s now requested never to return to the NICU again, consider the air cleared.’
    ‘Good.’ He shoved his hands in his pockets. ‘Good. Well, now that the air is clear, I guess we can just have dinner and get to know each other better.’
    ‘Why? You’re a colleague and I—’ She stopped arguing when her stomach growled again.
    Miles decided enough was enough and gently put his hand beneath her elbow and directed them towards the taxi rank at the front of the hospital where he’d arrived that morning. ‘It’s just food, Janessa. I would like to sit across a table and eat food. I’d like to have some company while I do it and I also have some questions about the conjoined twins I’d like to ask you.’
    ‘Oh. A business dinner.’ She shrugged, easing away from his gentle touch, hoping the warmth currently spreading through her body would cease when she wasn’t so close to him. She should turn him down, return to her room, eat her toast and sleep. That was what she needed to do and it would definitely put a bit of distance between them. However, she hadn’t left the hospital grounds in over a week and the thought of having Giuseppe, the owner of her favourite Italian restaurant, cook her a huge plate of
fettuccini
made her mouth water. ‘Do you like Italian food?’ A taxi was driving by the road closest to the residential wing and she put her fingers in her mouth and gave a loud whistle. ‘Taxi!’ she yelled, and the car instantly drove up to the kerb.
    Miles was stunned and pleasantly surprised at this turn of events. Who was this woman? She was well liked and respected by her peers, she was exceptional at her job, she was a caring friend to Sheena and now she was whistling loudly for a cab. Smiling, he opened the taxi door for her and as she slid inside he shook his head, even more delighted and intrigued by this amazing woman.

CHAPTER THREE
    T HE short taxi ride to her favourite Italian restaurant was completed with Janessa pointing out some of the immediate sights of