‘They separated when I was a toddler. My mother lives here with her second husband Stijn...in a town called Weesp,’ she said.
Lucas let out a short laugh. ‘How funny, my parents live pretty close to there.’
‘I haven’t seen my mother in a long time,’ she told him, picturing his parents, who were obviously still together. Were they as tall as him, as good looking, as charismatic? ‘My father died almost seven years ago. He was bitten by a spider in his sleep on a trip to Thailand. He developed a fatal kidney infection as a result.’
Lucas’s face fell suddenly and gone was his air of professional authority. ‘I’m so sorry, Dr Grey...’
‘Freya, please.’
‘I didn’t mean to drag up the past like that. And to lose your father that way, I can’t even...’
‘I know,’ she said shortly, feeling the electric storm between them pass in a flash and settle into something verging on awkwardness. She might not have been so forthcoming with such details if he hadn’t been so damn handsome, staring at her like that with his vivid blue eyes. He was unnerving her, to say the least.
She sat up straighter in her seat, determined not to let things get any more personal. She was here to work after all, not to be thrown by a surgeon who for all intents and purposes looked more like a movie star than a medical professional. ‘Time heals everything, in my experience. Almost everything anyway. There’s no point in dwelling on the past. Should we get back to my introductory session, Lucas?’
Copyright © 2021 by Becky Wicks
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ISBN-13: 9780369711953
Stolen Nights with the Single Dad
Copyright © 2021 by Alison Roberts
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