Kate Hardy - Hot Docs On Call - One Night To Forever?

There were too many feelings that must be kept in check.

For how would he react to her barrage of questions?

Her feelings were in complete disarray.

‘You need to go,’ Victoria said.

She went to climb off but he did not let her. ‘So you can say I got what I came for?’

He felt her short, reluctant laugh as he held her in his arms.

He was starting to know her a little too well and so she lifted her head up and looked at him.

‘You do have to go.’

‘I can call and tell them that if there’s a problem...’ And then he hesitated because family came first, especially at times such as this, yet she had edged her way up that list. ‘Come back with me.’

It was possibly the most stupid thing to say, but he was still inside her and that allowed a person to say the occasional reckless thing.

‘Isn’t it a bit early to be meeting the family?’ Victoria said, and got off him.

‘Exceptional circumstances,’ Dominic retorted as he sorted out his clothes. He was annoyed at himself for pushing things, and annoyed at the contrariness of her. ‘Victoria, like it or not, we’re going to be parents, and trying to sort things out from a distance isn’t working out too well, is it?’

‘I’m on nights tomorrow,’ Victoria said. ‘I just want to go to bed and have a long lie-in.’

‘So when will I see you?’

‘At work, I guess.’

‘I meant away from work. I’m not going to have our relationship dictated by how often your ambulance is dispatched to the Castle, and you kicking me out isn’t exactly helping us—’

‘I’m hardly kicking you out,’ Victoria interrupted. ‘You have a family that you need to get back to and I need to get some sleep.’

She needed him gone because she was on the edge of telling him she was crazy about him.

On the edge of asking about Lorna and how it had felt to see her again.

If he knew her—the real, insecure her—Victoria was positive that he would not want her any more.

She had never cared about anyone else in the way she cared for him, and it terrified her. She did not want to add a failed relationship between them to the mix.

‘You keep asking if there’s anything you can do for me,’ Victoria said. ‘Well, there is. Just stay back.’

‘You mean that?’ he checked.

‘I do.’

She even held the door open for him.

So much for wanting a long sleep, because Victoria was still awake when she heard the first train of the morning clack past.

Dominic, she decided, could be as involved in their baby’s life as he chose to be but she would not allow him to get closer to her.

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