Nikka Michaels lives in the often rainy Pacific Northwest
where she spends her time cooking, laughing and crafting romantic tales to
satisfy her craving for HEAs.
Eileen Griffin loves to travel and has spent many summers
crossing Europe with nothing but a backpack. She enjoys TexMex, good wine and
losing herself in a great book.
Chase Williams is a gorgeous but
painfully shy web designer whose long term boyfriend dumped him for being such
a “nice” guy. Instead of meeting his buddies at the local bar for a drink he
helps his elderly neighbor with a DIY project. When a wobbly step ladder leads
to a banged up wrist and a trip to the ER Chase is convinced it’s the worst
night ever. Then he meets his handsome nurse.
Matt Owens is the boy next door
who loves working in the busy ER. He’s more than ready to clock out from his
double shift until he meets his patient in Bed 4. Matt’s bedside manner is
charming enough to make Chase consider throwing caution to the wind and going
after what he wants for a change. But will Matt’s attraction to Chase be enough
to make him break his rule about never dating patients?
Read an excerpt:
Nurse Matt Owens paused and held my eyes for
a minute before leaning over to type some notes on the computer. My skin
flushed when he looked away. I liked the feeling of his eyes on me. I only
wished he did it with personal interest instead of the clinical way he
evaluated my injury.
I shifted on the stretcher as he gently
manipulated my wrist, his hands steady and warm through the gloves. The pain
was mostly manageable, until he held onto my forearm with one hand, and flexed
my hand backward with the other. I jumped and yelped, unable to hide how much
even that small movement hurt.
His eyes were sympathetic, but his hands
remained firmly on my arm, steadying me. “Sorry. Bad news? There’s a lot of
swelling, and the skin is already turning a nice shade of purple.”
He looked back down at my wrist, and
manipulated my fingers and wrist again. When he held my hand still and slowly
moved his thumb in circles over the top of my wrist, my breath hitched. The
pain of the injury mixed with a deeper pleasure that shot straight to my cock.
I quickly shifted my good arm to cover my lap.
“Pain?” Matt’s concerned eyes met mine as he
moved his thumb, gently rubbing the swollen skin between my thumb and pointer
finger.
“A little.”
“Pressure points can help alleviate pain
sometimes, but right now you’re too swollen to receive any real benefit. This
pressure point is called the Valley of Harmony, but I’m sensing this is less
than harmonic for you.”
I thought I saw the smallest hint of a smirk
on his lips, but I couldn’t be sure since his face was still tilted down toward
my arm. I cursed at myself for getting turned on by a nurse’s clinical exam.
“I’ve just called for a tech from Radiology
to escort you down for your scans. Do you have any questions?”
I laughed under my breath. Did I have any
questions? A whole litany of questions came to my mind ranging from where
the hell was the exit so I can finally go home to what’s your phone
number.
After I settled on the new stretcher, the
tech wheeled me down the hallway towards Radiology. All I thought about was
whether Matt would be there when I got back from the tests. If he was, and I
hadn’t killed anyone from the pain taking over my whole body, maybe I’d
actually work up the courage to strike up a conversation that had nothing to do
with sludgy coffee, sucky fluorescent lighting, or beautiful ER lobbies, and
get to know more about Nurse Owens. Maybe I’d embrace the new Chase Williams
like Brett wanted me to and actually go after what I wanted for the first time
in my life.
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