Tempted by Dr Morales. Carol Marinelli

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       CHAPTER THREE

      THE BAR WAS hot and crowded but it was equally hot outside; there was just no escaping the heat.

      There was no escaping Juan.

      She was terribly aware of him when, about an hour after they’d got there, he arrived.

      He came over and bought everyone drinks, but Cate told him that she was happy with her soda water.

      ‘When are you working with us again, Juan?’ Abby shouted above the noise.

      ‘I don’t think I am,’ Juan said. ‘I have some shifts already booked in the city.’

      ‘So this is your leaving do!’ Kelly said.

      ‘It might be…’

      Cate stood there, watching her friends get louder, flirtier and more morose as they realised they might never see him again. By midnight, the night had turned into Juan Morales’s unofficial send-off. So much so that there was now going to be an impromptu party back at his home.

      Impromptu might just as well be his middle name, Cate thought as everyone asked her to come along.

      ‘I’m working tomorrow!’ Cate said it three times, not that anyone listened.

      ‘It will be fun,’ Abby insisted. ‘Everyone’s going back.’

      Half the bar, it would seem, was lined up outside to take taxis to Juan’s as, sober, fed up, tired and with her strapless bra digging into her, Cate headed out to her car.

      ‘Thank you for this,’ Juan said as he lowered himself into the passenger seat, far too tall for her rather small car. ‘I really should get there first to let people in.’

      ‘It’s no problem.’ Cate gave a slightly forced smile and then tried to turn it into a friendlier one as a couple of her colleagues and friends climbed into the back seat.

      ‘You don’t mind giving us a lift, do you, Cate?’ Kelly checked, though not until she’d put her seat belt on.

      ‘Of course not,’ Cate said, and put the air conditioner on. The blast of cold air was especially welcome a moment later when Juan said, ‘Cate, if you want to have a drink, you are very welcome to stay the night.’

      Stay!

      At Juan Morales’s apartment for the night!

      Cate turned and gave him the most incredulous smile she could muster, before starting the engine. ‘Don’t they have taxis in Argentina, Juan?’

      He gave her a shameless smile back and then answered with his deep, heavily accented voice, which had Cate’s stomach flip over on itself. ‘I’m just letting you know that the offer is there.’

      The offer had been there for a while now.

      ‘I’m working at seven tomorrow morning.’

      ‘You’re staying for a drink, though,’ Juan checked, but Cate answered him with a question of her own.

      ‘Can you give me directions?’ she said as she pulled out of the car park.

      ‘Left ahead and then you go down…’ He even managed to give a sexual connotation to the simplest directions, Cate thought, or was it that she was just incredibly aware of him sitting next to her?

      Cate glanced over and caught a glimpse of his strong profile. His grey eyes were framed by dark lashes, his nose was straight and he had full lips that smiled easily. There was an exotic streak that seemed to run through every inch of him.

      ‘Have you had your interview?’ Juan asked.

      ‘Not yet,’ Cate said, surprised that he’d remembered. ‘There are some external applications as well that they’re going through.’

      ‘So you would be the unit manager if you get it?’

      ‘The nurse unit manager,’ Cate corrected as she sat waiting for the traffic lights to change.

      ‘Wouldn’t you miss working with the patients?’

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