Emergency Room Reunion – Amy Blythe

‘Is that antlers?’ Neroli was already in the midst of it all, paramedics wheeling someone in tattered leathers with—yes, it was antlers piercing their abdomen. Adrenaline pumping, they worked on the motorcyclist, almost lost him four times. Finally stable, they watched the surgeons wheel him away and stood there in the carnage. The empty room seemed painfully quiet compared to the chaos of just minutes before.

‘That was…’ Neroli started. He met her gaze, expression almost comical. ‘Yeah.’ ‘That wouldn’t have worked with anyone else.’ ‘We do have a certain synchronicity.’ ‘In the trauma room if nowhere else,’ she said. ‘There’s at least one other context I can think of,’ he said—blame the adrenaline, the fatigue, the come-down. She held eye contact. It made him brave.

‘I don’t want to get you out of my system,’ he said. ‘And I promised I wouldn’t ask for anything you don’t want to give, but whatever you want, Ner.’ He knew then he’d stay. Stay as long as there was hope here. * * * If she hadn’t been in full PPE and splattered with blood, she might have done something truly reckless. Not riding-a-motorcycle reckless.

Not overtaking-a-truck-full-of-hunting-trophies-on-a-blind-corner reckless. But reckless nonetheless. ‘We could…’ The words slipped out of her mouth. Reckless. He nodded, as if he knew exactly what she meant. ‘Keep it simple. No expectations. No promises or complications.’ Only the ridiculous hope rising in her chest. Reckless. ‘Whatever you need,’ he said. A nurse threw the door open. ‘The driver’s crashing.’ It was almost four hours later when she finally snatched a bathroom break.

On autopilot, she checked her phone. She’d known it was coming, but it was something else to see it confirmed: Brendan and Pippa were engaged. The photo was charmingly original because of course it was. Pippa was an artist, too cool for anything so cliché as clasped hands and a shiny ring. But there was a ring, nestled in a line of paints. Bigger than the one he’d gotten Neroli.

That was her first, admittedly petty, thought. The second was that now would be a really good time for Sorin to rail her in the on-call room. She’d settle for a racy text. She inspected her bruise in the mirror—thankfully, no black eye—and went back to reception in time to see Sorin walking out the front door.

Was he going home? She checked the clock, and yeah, it was past the end of his shift. Hers, too, but surely, he’d be looking for a chance to leave together?

He glanced at her mouth—again. And he wasn’t the only one guilty of that look. But she wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice. “We shouldn’t have… That night you came in with a broken tibia, I didn’t think you were staying.” Her words were running away from her, but she couldn’t stop them. “It felt like goodbye, like there was nothing to lose, but now you’re back back, and there’s something to lose.

Oh god.” It hit her like a ton of bricks, the real answer to her question. “You came back to give it another go?” “No.” “No?” “I just wondered if there was still something.” “How is that different?” “Because there’s no pressure,” he said, eyes pleading. “Because you kissed me back and it was like nothing else.” His tone seemed to dare her to contradict him, to disagree, and she couldn’t do it. Without meaning to, without consciously making the choice to touch him, she reached out, grazed her fingertips to the back of his wrist.

This was real. He was really here, really telling her he wanted her still, after all this time. OceanofPDF.com Dear Reader, Do you ever wonder what if…? It’s such a tempting question. And it’s one Sorin Alexander has been asking for fourteen years, ever since he left behind the love of his life. Neroli McColl doesn’t do what-ifs anymore. She moves forward and takes care of business. That’s what the job demands in a busy ER, and it’s what life demands of a single mom.

But when Sorin rolls out of an ambulance, battered and bruised from a hit-and-run, she slips. She feels things she stopped feeling a long time ago. Sorin wasn’t planning to stay in New Zealand, but seeing Neroli changes everything. There’s still something there, after all this time. He can’t just walk away. But working together again is intense—brilliant one moment, devastating the next, and tempting…

always tempting. I’ve always loved a second chance romance, ever since I watched the Ciarán Hinds version of Persuasion and felt things. It’s all the longing that gets me. Their heads are full of memories, from sultry to heartbreaking, and every interaction is so charged. I loved writing Sorin and Neroli’s misery, ahem, I mean reunion, and I hope you thoroughly enjoy their suffering—their romance! Happy reading! xx Amy OceanofPDF.com Emergency Room Reunion Amy Blythe OceanofPDF.com NOTE TO READERS This ebook contains the following accessibility features which, if supported by your device, can be accessed via your ereader/accessibility settings: Change of font size and line height Change of background and font colours Change of font Change justification Text to speech Page numbers taken from the following print edition: ISBN 9781335993519 OceanofPDF.com Amy Blythe (she/her) is a hopeless romantic.

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