Daddy To Be Determined. Muriel Jensen
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Название: Daddy To Be Determined
Автор: Muriel Jensen
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
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“Over a two-by-four.”
“You couldn’t have bought a house that was already fixed?”
“I’m a builder, Mom. Fixing houses and buildings or putting them up is what I do.”
“And now you’ve probably broken the leg of the woman God dropped in your lap.”
“It’s sprained, not broken,” he said evenly. “And you dropped her, not God. Not the fates. You.”
“Why didn’t you call me?”
“Because it just happened. I rushed her right over here, but I’d have called you when I got home.”
“With a little warning I could have brought a casserole.”
“For what? To use as a poultice? Greg’s taking good care of her.”
She gave him a lethal look. “So that you don’t have to cook tonight. You’ll have enough on your hands with an invalid.”
He’d opened his mouth to repeat that it was probably just a sprain and that the invalid was very determined to go home when Greg wheeled Natalie back into the examining room. On Natalie’s left leg was a fat Ace bandage wrapped under her foot and around her leg. On top of it was an ice pack.
“Always pays to be sure,” Greg said. “It’s just a sprain. She should stay off it for a couple of days. The thing to remember is RICE.”
Ben blinked at him. “Pardon me?”
“RICE,” Greg repeated, ticking the items off on his fingers. “Rest. Ice. Compression—that’s the bandage. Elevation. Keep it up.”
Ben nodded. “Got you.”
To someone else, Natalie might have looked cheerful and in control, but Ben knew what it was like to feel one thing and project another for the comfort of those around you. Under the facade, she was on the brink of tears.
“Don’t worry,” she said to him, with a smiling glance at his mother. “I’m sure I can find someone to drive me to the airport.”
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