Emily Forbes - Falling For His Best Friend - Falling for His Best Friend / Reunited with Her Parisian Surgeon

About the Authors

EMILY FORBESis an award-winning author of Medical Romance for Mills & Boon. She has written over 25 books and has twice been a finalist in the Australian Romantic Book of the Year Award, which she won in 2013 for her novel Sydney Harbour Hospital: Bella’s Wishlist . You can get in touch with Emily at emilyforbes@internode.on.net, or visit her website at emily-forbesauthor.com.

ANNIE O’NEILspent most of her childhood with her leg draped over the family rocking chair and a book in her hand. Novels, baking, and writing too much teenage angst poetry ate up most of her youth. Now Annie splits her time between corralling her husband into helping her with their cows, baking, reading, barrel racing (not really!) and spending some very happy hours at her computer, writing.

Also By Emily Forbes

His Little Christmas Miracle

A Love Against All Odds

Falling for the Single Dad

Waking Up to Dr Gorgeous

One Night That Changed Her Life

Tempted & Tamed miniseries

A Doctor by Day…

Tamed by the Renegade

A Mother to Make a Family

Also By Annie O’Neil

One Night, Twin Consequences

The Nightshift Before Christmas

Santiago’s Convenient Fiancée

Her Hot Highland Doc

Healing the Sheikh’s Heart

Her Knight Under the Mistletoe

Italian Royals miniseries

Tempted by the Bridesmaid

Claiming His Pregnant Princess

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Falling for His Best Friend

Emily Forbes

Reunited with Her Parisian Surgeon

Annie O’Neil

www.millsandboon.co.uk

ISBN: 978-1-474-09568-6

FALLING FOR HIS BEST FRIEND & REUNITED WITH HER PARISIAN SURGEON

Falling for His Best Friend © 2018 Emily Forbes Reunited with Her Parisian Surgeon © 2018 Annie O’Neil

Published in Great Britain 2018

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Table of Contents

Cover

About the Authors

Booklist

Title Page

Copyright

Falling for His Best Friend

Back Cover Text

Dedication

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

Reunited with Her Parisian Surgeon

Back Cover Text

Dedication

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

EPILOGUE

About the Publisher

Falling for His Best Friend

Emily Forbes

They’ve been friends forever...

But now he wants so much more!

When nurse Kitty Nelson becomes a surrogate for her sister, her best friend paramedic Joe Harkness is right there for her. But as Kitty’s pregnancy blossoms, Joe begins to see her in a very different light! Finally admitting a connection he’s never felt with anyone else, is it too late to convince Kitty they’re meant to be?

For Sheila.

Thank you for being a true champion of Medical Romance. We couldn’t do it without you!

We have had a long association now, and I have enjoyed it all. I look forward to many more years, and books, together.

With love and appreciation,

Emily

CHAPTER ONE

‘YOU’RE DOING WHAT?’ Mike’s eyes looked as though they were about to pop out of his skull. ‘If you think I’m going to sit here and listen while you tell me you’re having another man’s baby—’

‘I haven’t committed to anything yet,’ Kitty interrupted, quickly trying to ease the tension. She hated it when he lost his temper. ‘I’m just thinking about it.’

‘Well, you’d better stop thinking about it.’

‘And it’s not another man’s baby,’ she added. She knew she should just keep quiet. Her argument would only serve to fan the flames of his aggravation but if they were going to discuss this she wanted a chance to state her case before this escalated into an argument.

‘Is it my baby?’

‘Well, no. It would be Cam’s.’

‘So that is another man. If you’re going to have babies they’d better damn well be with me.’

With Mike’s current attitude Kitty thought it very unlikely that she’d choose to have babies with him but she kept that thought to herself. ‘Well, technically it won’t be my baby either,’ she explained, stating the facts. ‘I’d just be the surrogate. It will be Jess and Cameron’s baby.’

‘Why on earth would you want to go through a pregnancy for someone else?’

‘You know why,’ Kitty stated flatly.

‘So, Cameron and Jess get a baby and you get fat.’

‘I’d be pregnant, not fat.’

‘Still, Cameron doesn’t have to put up with the hormones, the weight gain, the mood swings and the cravings but I do?’

‘Cameron and Jess have been through plenty already, I don’t think you can begrudge them this.’ In Kitty’s opinion, her sister and her brother-in-law had been through more than their fair share of physical and emotional stresses and she couldn’t see any reason why they should be expected to go through any additional stress if it wasn’t absolutely necessary.

‘Maybe you can’t, but at the end of it they’ll get a baby and what do I get? A girlfriend with stretch marks and leaking boobs.’

Kitty was pretty sure there was something she could take to stop the leaky boobs and who cared about a few stretch marks if she could give her sister the child she so desperately wanted. The addition that their family desperately needed.