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enjoying yourself.”
    “Sometimes,
Susie, I worry about you,” Maxie said. “You sound like a man at
times.”
    “I have five
brothers, I know how they think. Men are simple creatures with
simple needs.” Susie licked cream off her spoon. “Cherry, have I
ever been wrong before when it comes to men?”
    “Well…no.”
    “And I’m not
wrong now. So are you going to eat that cake or sniffle into your
plate?”
    Some of the
weight had left her shoulders and she smiled. “The cake is
mine.”
    “Good. Eat
up.”
    “Maybe she had
a sex change sometime in the past,” Maxie mused. “Maybe Susie is
really Sam.”
    Susie flipped
her the bird.
    “Definitely Sam
in a former life.”
    Listening to
her friends ribbing each other, Cherry finally started to relax. It
would be all right, she was over reacting. Rick Reed wouldn’t know
her in the light of day, and even if he recognized her, no way was
he going to acknowledge it. It was an encounter he’d probably
forgotten by now. Besides, he hadn’t had a problem with having sex
with an unknown woman, he probably did it so often he wouldn’t have
a clue with whom he’d gone out.
    Yes, she was
worrying for nothing.
    ~*~
    Coming into
work the next afternoon, Cherry checked the allocation and found
that she was on the medical ward. Susie had been working the
morning shift on the surgical ward, and Maxie had the day off.
    Readjusting the
hairgrip holding her hair confined at the back of her head, she
headed into the handover room and greeted her fellow nurses.
    Taking the
handover sheet, she chatted to the nurses until the handover tape
was started, and then settled down, pen in hand, to jot down
notes.
    She almost
froze when the name Damien MacAvoy was read out. It wasn’t the
first name that jolted her, it was the rest of the information.
    “Damien
MacAvoy,” said the nurse’s voice on the tape. “Twenty five years
old, came in on the twelfth. MVA. Under Dr Reed. Bruising and some
cuts which have been dressed. He’s doing well, everything NAD. For
review tonight and possible discharge in the morning.”
    There was no
freaking way it could be the same man! No way. No male prostitute
would use his real name. Surely not. It had to be a coincidence,
there was nothing more for it. A huge coincidence.
    Her palms were
almost sweaty, and then she realized something. If it was the same
Damien, he had not a clue who she was or what she looked like, or
even her real name. She was safe.
    She was even
safer when she found out she wasn’t being allocated to be his
nurse, and with a sigh of relief she pocketed her handover sheet
and pen and left the handover room.
    There was no
way she couldn’t see him during the afternoon, though. Beth, the
nurse allocated to him, was caught up with another patient, so when
Damien’s call bell rang Cherry answered it.
    Damien was
cute, no doubt about it. And young, so very bloody young in
comparison to her. Ten years younger, in fact. Inwardly, Cherry
cringed. Thank goodness she hadn’t met him that night, she’d have
felt like a cradle snatcher.
    He obviously
knew he was good looking and he was a natural charmer. Cherry
didn’t fall for any of it, remaining friendly but professional,
keeping her distance and more than happy to let Beth have him all
to herself.
    Around the time
Dr Reed was due to appear and do a review on Damien, Cherry made
sure she was in the dining room having her dinner. Call her a
coward, she didn’t care. In her opinion it was a very wise move.
There was no sense in running a risk if there was a way out of
it.
    Coming back
onto the ward, Beth took her chance to go to dinner, leaving the
ward under the eyes of Cherry and another nurse.
    And that was
when Dr Rick Reed walked up to the nurses’ station and asked who
was looking after Damien MacAvoy.
    Cherry nearly
fell down on the spot, and only her sense of self-preservation
enable her to croak, “His nurse is at tea.”
    “Fine. I’m
running late. Come with me.”