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Michael West MD has a five year plan before he can consider making a commitment. He’s happy dating women who have no desire for a long-term affair. Encountering Zelda, the pest, the menace, the little girl next door who has impacted his life makes him want to run. She managed to ruin his senior prom and sent several of his dates running. Now she’s grown and the nurse manager of the surgical unit where he will see her every day. What’s a doctor to do but run?
Zelda has loved Michael for year. She knows of the odd accidents her presence has caused him. After an encounter in the condo swimming pool, the accidents become hers but she refuses to give up her quest. The problem is his dating system. He seems to be on an alphabetical quest. He’s just met G and she’s Z. Can she find a way to turn his thoughts to her or must she give up her pursuit?
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After stuffing the remains in the take-out bag, he slid from the sedan
and brushed crumbs from his clothes. He scanned the lot. New car added to his
list of wants. His fuel-economy sedan looked like a waif among the luxury
sedans and sporty models. He strode toward the entrance.
“Michael, slow down.” The senior partner of the surgical practice waved.
Michael waited for Dr. Probst. “Good morning, sir. I didn’t expect to see
you here so early.”
The gray-haired man smiled. “Always the first. Good to see you’ve the
same habit. Three cases on the schedule. First one’s at nine.”
“Will I assist?”
“Eager to get your hands in?”
Michael grinned. “Sure am, sir.”
Dr. Probst chuckled. “How well I remember those days. Before we head to
the OR, we’ll make rounds. I’ll show you the surgical unit.”
“Sounds good.” Though he had visited the hospital when he’d been
recruited, he hadn’t been impressed with the unit.
“We’ve a new nurse manager. Young, efficient. Has performed miracles
during her five months in charge. She’s cracked down on the staff. You’ll like
her.”
Michael studied the older man. Was he being set up? Not going to happen. Casual affairs were his speed. He thought
about the nurse manager he’d met when the guys in the practice had wined and
dined him. She’d been old, steely-eyed, with a thin-lipped smile, making him
think young doctors were to be trained like puppies. Young might mean any woman
under sixty. If the new nurse manager was attractive and would be interested in
a fling in the company of a man with a five year plan, he might give her a try.
They rode the elevator from the basement to the second floor. When he saw
the nurse at the counter with a phone in her left hand and her right poised
over a keyboard, he halted and fought the urge to run.
“No.” He groaned. “Impossible.”
“Something wrong?” Dr. Probst asked.
Michael cleared his throat. Don’t
be an ass. “I never expected to see…” Help!
His inner voice shouted the final word of his nightmare.
“Zelda, come and meet the new addition to our group.”
Michael sucked in a breath. The bane of his youthful existence left the
computer and sauntered toward them.
His throat constricted. His gut churned. “You work here?” Duh. Could his foot fit any tighter in
his mouth? Why else was she dressed in a white uniform? And the lab coat
spelled administration. He took a second look. The uniform fit her slender body
to perfection.
Dr. Probst beamed. “Guess you know each other. Zelda is our miracle nurse
manager.”
Figured she would find a way to plague him. He didn’t like the ideas
swarming like gnats in his thoughts. He batted them away. Sure, Zelda was
attractive and probably efficient, but she was a cyclone centered on
destructing Michael West MD. Like visions seen by a drowning man, incidents
flooded him. She had swamped his high school romance with Allie, and sent depth
charges into his summer fling with Bette.
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Swamped and depth charges. LOL - great analogies!
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ReplyDeleteThis cyclone is about to make his life interesting. LOL
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