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fistful of Maxie’s
shirt, Cherry yanked her forward. “What then?”
    “Get up, you
two.” Susie nudged her with the toe of her shoe. “The Nurse Manager
is heading this way. We’ll sort this out later.”
    They both
scrambled to their feet.
    Cherry had no
idea how she managed to get through the rest of the shift without
falling apart, but finally it was home time. She managed to make it
out the door by herself, but Maxie and Susie caught up to her in
the car park.
    “Curtis’s
Coffee Café.” Susie overrode Cherry’s protests. “We need
sugar-laden food and drink to absorb all this.”
    “Why do you
need it?” Cherry asked. “I’m the one who bedded the good
doctor.”
    “Good point,”
Maxie agreed. “But not good enough. Let’s go.”
    Curtis’s Coffee
Café was situated in the main mall and as usual it was busy.
Popular for its cakes and creamy drinks, they were lucky to find a
table near a window. The harried waitress came and took their
orders.
    Once she’d
left, Susie looked across the table at Cherry. “So. Rick Reed,
local GP.”
    “Shit.”
    “He’s a hunk,
I’ll give you that. I had no idea.”
    “You think I
did? Susie, I thought he was Damien!”
    “Who he
wasn’t,” Maxie pointed out. “But at least you now know who you went
to bed with, right?”
    “Yet somehow
that doesn’t make it any better.” Dropping her forehead into her
hands, Cherry moaned. “How am I going to face him? What if he
recognizes me?”
    “He probably
won’t,” Susie assured her. “You said you did the deed in dimness,
remember? You had your hair down, make-up on, sexy dress. At work
you wear your hair up, barely any make-up, and by no stretch of the
imagination could our uniforms be considered sexy.”
    “She’s right.”
Maxie patted her hand. “He won’t have a clue who you are.”
    “You think so?”
Cherry peered sideways at her. “Really?”
    “Absolutely.
Nurses are a dime a dozen to doctors. We’re the plebs, slavishly
following their orders and jumping to their demands. They don’t
actually notice us.”
    “True.” Susie
nodded to the waitress as their orders were placed on the table.
“Besides, he’s probably dating some hot sheila who is so rich she
uses pearl-inlaid toothpicks.”
    “That makes me
the ‘other woman’.” Cherry took a half-hearted sip of the chocolate
cream drink.
    “Or he’s
looking for a hot woman.” Maxie nudged her. “Could be you, you
know.”
    Horrified,
Cherry stared at her. “I can’t tell him who I am!”
    “Well, I don’t
know why not.”
    “Because I had
sex with him!” When the elderly couple at a nearby table looked
askance at her, Cherry blushed and lowered her voice. “He didn’t
know who I was, and I – you know.”
    “To be fair, he
didn’t know who you were, either.” Maxie took a bite of cake.
    “What does that
make both of us, then?”
    “A perfect
match.”
    Susie drawled,
“You’re making it worse, Max.”
    “Just trying to
point out a bright lining in this apparently dark cloud.”
    Disregarding
her, Susie looked at Cherry. “Look, it happened. Chances are good
he won’t have a clue who you are and never will. Neither Max nor I
will talk about this to anyone. Calm down, have your sugar load,
and put this behind you as an interesting experience. Let it
go.”
    “How can you be
so calm about it?”
    “Because you’re
blowing it out of proportion.”
    A little hurt,
Cherry stared at her.
    Reaching across
the table, Susie patted her hand. “Sorry, darling, but it had to be
said. Trust me, this isn’t anything major. You’re getting yourself
upset over something that won’t happen. Relax, settle down. We’re
in a great café, eating great food and sipping great drinks. You
had an awesome sexual experience, you found out who the man was, he
has no idea who you are, and you hold all the cards. It’s in your
power whether to inform him or not. You hold the power, Cherry, not
him. Now stop worrying and start