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Dr Romano's Christmas Baby
A family by Christmas…
Nurse Rilla Winters is shocked to learn the new A&E Director at
Brisbane General is her husband! It’s been seven years since they
drifted apart after her miscarriage, but the reappearance of Luca
Romano, in all his dark-haired, flashing-eyed Italian glory, throws
her emotions into confusion!
From the moment he sees Rilla again, Luca knows his wife is the only
woman for him. With emotions riding high, they spend one very
special night together and Rilla falls pregnant – again…
This tiny new life is a symbol of hope – maybe Luca and Rilla can
really become a family by Christmas.
Excerpt
They walked out to
the main reception area where rows of plastic chairs sat empty,
awaiting the morning rush. An eight-foot, naked Christmas tree was
set up near the triage desk awaiting tinsel and baubles.
Rilla opened the box of decorations and grinned at Emily.
“Gosh, I love Christmas.”
They attacked the job with enthusiasm, singing along to the
piped carols as they went. Half an hour later there was just the
angel for the top left. Rilla, five foot two, looked at Emily, four
foot ten and then back up to the top of the tree.
“I don’t know about you Ems, but I don’t think either of us
have a chance in hell of reaching the top branch.”
Emily grinned. “I’ll get a chair.”
Emily took one of the waiting room chairs and held it while
Rilla climbed on. She rose on her tippy-toes and leaned forward to
place the angel.
“Rilla!”
Luca’s furious exclamation startled her and she toppled
precariously.
“Get down from there,” he ordered reaching her in a few angry
strides and pulling her down off the seat. “What the hell do you
think you’re doing?”
“I’m just hanging the angel, Luca,” she said ,waving it under
his nose. Her body had slid down his as he had lowered her and
despite his riled expression she felt her body surge against his.
Luca saw a flare of heat in her tawny gaze and set her away
from him. Inferno! Was she deliberately trying to provoke him? “What
if you’d fallen off the chair?” he demanded.
“Well I nearly did, thanks to you.”
Rilla was conscious of Emily watching their heated exchange.
Otherwise she would have said, I’m pregnant not made of glass.
Luca’s pulse rate settled now she was safely back on the
floor, even if the heat in his loins hadn’t. “Give it to me,” he
sighed and held out his hand.
Rilla handed him the offending article and they watched as he
barely had to stretch to ram the plastic, seen-better-days angel on
the top branch. She was tacky and garish with a fluro red dress and
a wonky halo but the tree just wasn’t dressed without her.
“She’s crooked,” Emily whispered out the side of her mouth.
Rilla bit her cheek to stop from laughing. The way he’d
jammed her on the tree, it was a wonder he hadn’t flattened her.
“She’s crooked,” she said, returning Luca’s mutinous look with an
innocent smile.
“It looks fine to me,” Luca returned.
“She’s crooked,” Rilla insisted.
Luca eyed the two women and grudgingly reached up to adjust
the irreligious angel.
“I hope you decorate the tree at your place,” Emily whispered
as they watched.
Rilla nodded. “Doing it tonight.”
"Better?” Luca asked sardonically, turning back to the women.
Rilla and Emily, their lips pressed tightly together nodded.
“Better. Nothing worse than a crooked angel,” Emily said.
Luca thought the angel looked like it walked the street for
eleven months of the year but wisely didn’t say anything.
From
"DR ROMANO'S CHRISTMAS BABY" by Amy Andrews
Mills and Boon® Medical Romance™ November 2008
ISBN:
978-0-263-86360-4
Copyright: © 2008 Amy Andrews
® and ™ are trademarks
of the publisher. The edition published by arrangement
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Review
Dr Roman's Christmas Baby by Amy Andrews
Nov 08 UK, Aust
ISBN:
978-0-263-86360-4
Category: Medical Romance
Rating:
5 stars
Dr
Romano’s Christmas Baby by
Amy Andrews is a story of
tenderness and romance, but
it is also one of hope for
those involved. I really
enjoyed the characters in
this tale as they brought to
life not only their world
but also the emotions of
love, pain and hope. I
couldn’t stop reading this
book once I started because
it portrayed the lives of
two people torn apart by
tragedy and then given one
more chance at happiness in
each other’s arms. I felt
for both Luca and Rilla
because even though they
survived their heartbreaking
ordeal they also discovered
that pushing each other away
and not sharing their pain
of loss was the cause of
their separation. To share
pain will bring people
together but to reject it
will only cause heartache
and sorrow and for Luca and
Rilla this is what happened
but when fate gave them
another chance they
rediscovered the passion
that wouldn’t die, their
love for one another. This
book made me laugh and cry
as well as believe in hope
and survival in tragic
times.
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Sheryl
Cataromance Reviews
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