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Jason couldn't believe he'd found her. Elizabeth, his Elizabeth, was a nurse in the Trauma ICU! A deluge of emotion swamped him.
He could remember their night together with absolute clarity. Every kiss. Every stroke of his fingers along her ivory skin. Every throaty sound she'd uttered when he'd slid deep inside her. His body tightened at the mere thought.
They'd met at a holiday party he'd attended at his boss's urging. The moment a laughing Elizabeth had entered the room, she'd captivated him. His heart had somersaulted in his chest. He'd lost his breath, as if someone kicked him in the kidneys. He'd approached her and found, to his disbelief, that the instant attraction he'd felt was mutual. While it wasn't his style to take, a woman home on the same night he'd met her, he'd felt deep down that they could potentially have so much more.
But the next morning he'd awoken to find she had disappeared while he'd been sleeping.
For a solid week he'd tried to find her, all the while getting acclimated to his new job as a trauma physician in Llanview — until his brother had phoned with the news of their mother's stroke. Without hesitation, he'd taken the first flight home, to Port Charles.
Thankfully, his boss, the Chief of Trauma Surgery, had granted his request to delay his start date by another month. A glitch in transferring his Llanview MD license to Port Charles had added another couple of weeks.
Until now. His first night on trauma call and he'd found Elizabeth, the woman of his dreams.
His first instinct was to run, to get the hell out of dodge. Because somewhere deep inside, he knew with sinking certainty he'd just seen the woman he was destined to marry.
Hel-lo, reality check. Elizabeth was not thrilled to see him. Too bad. He had no idea what he'd done to chase her away, but whatever it was, he was determined to set things right.
Halfway down to the ER, his pager went off. He retraced his steps to the ICU, answered the nurse's questions, then halted abruptly when Elizabeth emerged from the bathroom, pale and shaken.
Jason again. Why couldn't he leave her alone? Didn't she have enough to deal with? Thoughts were racing through her head, spinning out of control. If she was pregnant, how on earth would she manage to work and raise a child all alone? Her hands trembled.
"Elizabeth, are you all right?"
He took her arm and steered her into the staff break room. She wanted to argue, but fatigue hit hard, and there were at least six more hours left in her shift.
"I'm fine."
She sank gratefully into a chair. How ironic that all of this was hitting her at the same time that Jason showed up, she thought. If she was pregnant, Jason would be the father…
He immediately placed his palm on her forehead. The warm, male scent of him brought erotic memories she'd thought were buried deep, come rushing to the surface.
"No fever. Thank heavens, for a minute I thought you were ill."
"I'm fine," she repeated.
He knelt on the floor before her, taking her clammy hands in his.
"Elizabeth, we need to talk."
They were alone in the break room. When she lifted her gaze to his, doubt assailed her. She had been avoiding him, but maybe he had a right to know the truth. She may not even been pregnant, she reminded herself. Should she confess her suspicions now? Or wait until after she'd done a pregnancy test to know for sure?
To be continued...
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