Pregnant Nurse, New-Found Family
Enter into the world of high-flying Doctors as they navigate the pressures of modern medicine and find escape, passion, comfort and love – in each other’s arms!Her baby bombshell!After one special night with beautiful nurse Bethany Caldwell, ER doctor Gavin Riordan is torn. He so wanted to pursue their relationship, but now he has been given custody of his much loved son. The little boy is his priority, and no matter how much he wants her, he must put Beth out of his mind. In Beth’s eyes, Gavin’s devotion to his son just adds to the gorgeous doctor’s charm, and she’s devastated to let him go. Then she discovers she is pregnant with his baby!Beth feels a baby is the last thing Gavin needs, but it could be just what they need to bind them together for ever – as a family!
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How hard was it to say,I’m pregnant?
She sighed, and distracted herself by cleaning up her equipment and charts.
A strong, warm hand wrapped around her wrist and stopped her. She looked into his inquisitive eyes and swallowed.
“What do you need to tell me?”
She blew a light breath through her lips and tried to ignore the butterflies in her stomach.
He didn’t let go. “Well, it’s been exactly five weeks since we…ah…met.”
“I remember it well. Now go on.”
“And earlier this week, when I passed out, they ran some lab tests on me.”
His head tilted the tiniest bit and his eyes grew more serious.
“The thing is…I’m pregnant,” she whispered.
Lynne Marshall has been a registered nurse for twenty-five years. She’s been an avid reader all her life. She began her writing journey in 2000, and quickly discovered Medical™ Romance allowed her to combine both her love of medicine and drama. Lynne is happily married to a police lieutenant, and has a grown daughter and son. Besides her passion for writing romance stories, she loves travel, reading, and power walks. You can visit Lynne’s website at www.lynnemarshallweb.com
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This book is dedicated to the five years I worked as an allergy nurse, when I made special friends such as Joyce, Lorraine, Sue, Annette and Esther. With special thanks to Dr. Kenigsberg for helping me iron out my original premise, and in fond memory of Dr. Freund, a true gentleman.
CHAPTER ONE
THE last thing Gavin Riordan had ever expected was to be a full-time father again. The family courtroom drama had been legendary over the custody of his son three years before, but in the end the judge had ruled, as was most traditional, on the side of the mother.
He shook his head at the memory that Tuesday evening, and jogged down the hall in the clinic section of Los Angeles Mercy Hospital with his son in tow.
“Bupinder, have you got a minute?” He pulled the resistant nine-year-old, Patrick, along behind him.
The allergy doctor slowed down to let them catch up.
“May I run something by you?” he asked.
“Of course,” she said.
“I tell you, it’s the strangest thing.” Gavin accompanied the petite allergist along the clinic corridor. “One minute Patrick was fine. The next he had a huge asthma attack. Got any ideas?”
Dr Bupinder Mehta slanted her head in thought and studied Gavin’s son with large brown eyes. She turned back and asked, “Has he taken any antihistamines in the last week?”
“Not since the last big attack a month ago.” That asthma attack had made sense, as his mother had been leaving for England the next day and Patrick had been torn up about saying goodbye. But why had he had the asthma flare-up this time?
They’d spent the day together and gone to the movies in the afternoon. Gavin was determined to make up for not being the father he should have been all along, now that Patrick was living with him again. As usual, as soon as they’d returned home on Sunday afternoon, Patrick had run to his bedroom and slammed the door. A short time later he had come out wheezing. “This last time he just needed inhalers.”
“Then let’s do a skin test. Pollens, food, we can do the whole panel if he’s willing and you’ve got the time.” She brushed her long, black braid over her white lab coat and pushed on the double doors to a large, bright waiting room.
“I guess there’s no time like the present.” Gavin rushed ahead and held the door open with one hand and scratched his neck with the other. He sent a glance his son’s way and quickly saw the pursed lips and usual defensive resolve. He was positive his ex-wife Maureen’s sudden departure for England for four months had something to do with Patrick’s return of asthma after all these years.
Thinking of asthma as an emotional disease had been out of favor with the experts for a long time, yet Gavin still felt there was a connection. After he got some concrete medical answers, he’d deal with the emotional triggers in Patrick’s life.
On a whim, Maureen had decided to take a university extension course in art history at Oxford. She’d left Patrick with Gavin, even though it had meant putting him in a new school for the last few months before summer vacation and losing contact with all of his old friends. Maureen had always been impulsive, especially when it came to spending Gavin’s money. Patrick was definitely unhappy with the situation. And Gavin was still adjusting to the added responsibility of being a full-time single dad while running the Mercy Hospital ER.
But he was determined to make things work. And right now that meant getting to the bottom of his son’s new onset of asthma flare-ups.
“Beth, will you do one last skin test for me, please?” Dr Mehta’s precise British accent echoed in the almost empty room.
The nurse snapped her head around and looked straight at them.
“I know it’s late, but I’d like to do my colleague a favor, if you don’t mind.”
