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  Gavin

  Part 24 of the 'Members Only' series

  She's dedicated to her job, can he make her see that she can have more?

  A sexy unplanned pregnancy romance by Katie Dowe of BWWM Club. Features another free bonus book.

  Pediatric surgeon Savannah Myles is so dedicated to her patients that she sometimes takes her work home, allowing it to weigh her down.

  That was until she met sexy pharmaceutical giant Gavin Parker, who shows her how to relax and take her mind off her job!

  After a few passionate nights together, Gavin is determined to take things more seriously with her.

  But Savannah insists that she doesn’t want a relationship!

  When tragedy strikes at the hospital, she realizes that she needs Gavin more than ever…

  Especially now that she is pregnant with his child!

  Can she continue to deny the feelings she has for him?

  Find out in this emotional yet sexy romance by Katie Dowe of BWWM Club.

  Suitable for over 18s only due to super hot sex scenes!

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  Contents

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

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  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

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  Chapter 1

  “Straight black, no sugar, and a touch of cinnamon just the way you like and so we are clear this does not constitute a date,” first year resident Doctor Calvin Bryan said with a grin as he handed her the foam cup of coffee. “I am actually trying to get on your good side this morning so if you want me to buy lunch too that’s fine.”

  “Thanks.” Savannah gave him a small smile as she took the cup. “How long have you been waiting out here in the cold?”

  “A few minutes. Ten in total.” He fell into step with her as they made their way towards the hospital. “I have a case and I am not sure how to go about it.”

  “I am in paediatrics, Calvin, and you are in trauma. I am sure Doctor Griffin would be more able to answer your questions.”

  “Yes, but he is not as pretty as you and besides he is kind of a dick,” Calvin admitted as he allowed her to precede her through the automatic doors.

  “Have you told him that?” Savannah asked him dryly.

  “You know I am right, Savannah. The man thinks he can walk on water,” Calvin said in an undertone as they approached the nurses’ station.

  “Dr. Griffin is looking for you, Dr. Bryan, and I suggest you adjust the attitude before you see him. He is on the warpath,” head nurse Pamela Miller told him with a slightly grim look on her homely face.

  “Yes, ma’am,” Calvin said with a grimace. “Catch you later, Savannah.”

  “He is like a puppy dog around you,” Pamela said with a shake of her tightly weaved head. “Your dad called again. Said you are not picking up.”

  “I will call him back.” Savannah smiled at the look on the woman’s face. “I promise. As soon as my shift has ended.”

  “For a woman who is able to conquer childhood diseases you are a complete coward when it comes to that man.”

  “You met my father so I am sure you can understand why.” Savannah placed her cup on the counter. “What do you have for me?”

  “Head wound in room three. Ten-year-old girl. The mother said she fell down the stairs, but I have my doubt. Bruises in too many places.”

  “Abuse?” Savannah felt her heart contracting.

  “I am leaning to that but when you examine her you will know further.”

  Suddenly the alarm sounded and the doctors galvanized into action. “Pile up on the freeway! We have multiples coming in!” Pamela shouted as Savannah walked quickly to the room.

  *****

  “You are so pretty!” the little girl with the raggedy brown curls exclaimed as soon as she entered the room.

  “Emily, shush!” the mother, a painfully thin looking woman with straggly hair and extreme weariness planted on her face, told the girl.

  “It’s okay.” Savannah looked at the chart and came over. “I heard you fell down the stairs, Emily.”

  “She is clumsy,” the mother muttered.

  Savannah gave her a look and then turned to the little girl. “Where are you hurting?”

  “My head.”

  “Any nausea? Vomiting and dizziness?” Savannah pulled up a chair and handed the iPod to the nurse as she peered into the girl’s light blue eyes.

  “She is fine!” The woman jumped up in agitation. “Why all these questions? It’s like you are the police or something.”

  “I am trying to find out whether or not the injury is serious, Mrs. Maples. Do you mind?” Savannah gave the woman a cool stare that had her sitting back down and folding her arms over her scrawny chest. “How do you feel, Emily?”

  “I just feel a little dizzy that’s all.” Her eyes darted to her mother for a moment. “Am I going to die?”

  “We are not going to let that happen,” Savannah told the girl gently. “Nurse Vincent, could you order up a CT scan immediately?” She turned back to the little girl. “We just want to make sure that there are no damages to that brain of yours.”

  “Is it going to take long?” the child’s mother asked derisively.

  “Are you in a hurry?” Savannah asked the woman coolly wishing she could tell her to get the hell out.

  “We can’t all be doctors and nurses, you know. Some of
us are not so fortunate. I am a single mother and I work two jobs.”

  “Why don’t you leave her here and we will make sure she is taken care of?” Savannah suggested, resisting the urge to blast into her.

  For a moment, the woman looked as if she thought it was a very good idea and then she looked at them suspiciously. “So you can interrogate her without my being here?”

  “Do you have something to hide?”

  The woman looked at her and her expression turned ugly before she smiled grimly. “I take care of my daughter the best way I know how. We might not live fancy, but she is never hungry.”

  Savannah opened her mouth to tell the woman that withholding food could be the least of a child’s problems, but she nodded instead. “We will not be very long.”

  *****

  “And you are sure about this?” Administrator Paula Laughlin asked as she folded her hands and stared at the younger woman in front of her.

  “Not a hundred percent but I think so.”

  “We cannot call child services on nothing less than the facts, Savannah, and you know that.” Paula paused a little and then continued. “You might be biased.”

  “Because of my own situation.” Savannah shoved her hands into the pockets of her dazzlingly white lab coat and looked at Paula. “I am and because I was the object of emotional abuse I know the signs.”

  “I am sorry to stir that up but we have to be sure. The court hates to tear a child away from its mother and you know how it is in the system. Sometimes it is better to stay with the evil within than to face the uncertainties of the one outside. How was the scan?”

  “Clear, but I am concerned about the bruises on her arms and back.”

  “The mother claims that she is clumsy?”

  Savannah nodded.

  “Okay, I will do my investigation and write up a report. I cannot do anything unless she comes back in with a similar complaint.”

  “Thanks, Paula.” Savannah got to her feet.

  “Your father has been calling me.”

  “Why?”

  “He is not hearing from you and you know how he is. Call him back and get it over with.”

  *****

  Gavin took his sister’s hand and led her into the large ultramodern kitchen. “Wine?”

  “I need maybe two glasses or more.” Gail lifted shaky fingers to her jet black hair. “Gabrielle hates me.”

  Gavin poured the wine and brought over a glass of it to her. “Why?”

  “She adores her dad and thinks that I am the one who broke us apart.” Gail took a gulp of the wine and closed her eyes at the texture. “Otis is a lying son of a bitch and he is still denying that he is screwing my best friend! I could just kill him!”

  “I am glad you didn’t. Our lawyers are good but I doubt they would have gotten you off the murder charges.” Gavin’s slate grey eyes looked concerned as they took in how agitated she was. Otis had called him as soon as she had left their home in Georgia and had tried to explain. “He said it was a onetime thing.”

  “And you believe him?”

  “No. I believe you because I am on your side.” He reached over and clasped her slender hands. “You and Gabby can stay as long as you want.”

  “I am not going to cramp your style, Gavin.” She smiled slightly. “I know you are much on entertaining the ladies and I don’t want to get in the way.”

  “I will be on my best behavior as long as you are here,” he promised with a grin.

  “Gabby and I could go and stay in one of the apartments you keep for associates who come in from abroad.”

  “And miss out on being with you and my niece? No. You are staying here until you decide what you want to do.”

  Gail nodded gratefully. “I gave up my lucrative career as a lawyer to stay home and be wife and mother,” she said bitterly. “The mother part was well worth it but being a wife to that son of a bitch was a waste of my time.”

  “It will get better. Now how about watching something graphically violent? It will help you take your mind off things.”

  “I am not watching a horror movie with you, Gavin.”

  “Who said anything about horror?” he asked as he locked her hand inside his arm.

  *****

  “I had to call all over the hospital in order to get to speak to my daughter!” Simon Myles said, his brows meeting together in a disapproving frown as he stared at her. “Why are you punishing me this time, Savannah? Is it because I am seeing Carissa?”

  “Who you see or do not see has no bearing on me, Dad. I stopped caring a long time ago.” Savannah sat across from the table in the very exclusive and expensive restaurant. She had called him at last and he had insisted she had dinner with him. She had wanted to say no but she knew he would not stop calling her. Simon Myles thrived on getting his own way no matter what!

  He waved away the hovering waiter impatiently as he stared at his beautiful daughter. She had dressed up for the occasion in a simple black and white wool dress with her long dark hair combed back into an elegant chignon and he could not help but think how much she looked like his wife who had died several years ago.

  “She wanted to come to dinner and get a chance to get to know you.”

  “Have you told her that she is not exclusive?” Savannah asked him coolly as she sipped her Perrier. “That she is one of several women you have been with since Mom died?”

  “Enough!” he told her with quiet authority. “What I do is none of your concern. And I happen to like this woman a lot.”

  “So what do you want, Dad?”

  “I want to know if you considered my offer.”

  “You mean of coming into the practice with you? No thanks.”

  “Why not?” he demanded impatiently. “It’s a thriving practice in the heart of a growing town. Parker’s Pharmaceuticals has an office there as well. It is a very successful practice and I would love it if my daughter would put aside her resentment and come and join me.”

  “So you can tell me what to do? No thanks.” Savannah signaled the waiter over and placed her order, forcing him to do the same and curtail the conversation. Simon Myles stared at the coolly beautiful woman sitting across from him and felt the regret for the way he had treated her in the past. He had pushed her hard. She was an only child and he had wanted a son to carry on his name and his legacy. She had followed him around with her own toy stethoscope around her neck and had declared that she wanted to be a doctor like her dad. He had barely paid her any mind because she was a daughter instead of a son and had been minimally proud when she had gotten through to go to medical school. She had graduated top of her class and when she had done her years at the hospital he had thought she would have come to join him but she had told him a blunt no.

  “Your mother would have been so proud,” he said softly as he used his knife to cut into the beef stroganoff.

  Savannah glanced up at him and looked back down into her plate. “She has always been proud. You were the one I had to prove myself to over and over again.”

  “I have told you sorry several times. You need to move on.”

  She put away her utensils and stared at him. “You told me when I was fourteen and getting straight As in high school that I needed to do better. When I applied and got accepted for medical school, one of the top medical schools in the country, you told me that it was not good enough and that I had better not drop out. When I graduated top of my class, you told me that I was lucky and you hope I make it in the real world because medicine is not just about cramming and dissecting frogs. You certainly told me, Dad! And now you expect me to just move on. Well for your information I can’t.”

  “It was for your own good,” he muttered as he sipped his wine. “I had to make sure you were ready for the real world.”

  “Why thank you, Dad,” she said sweetly as she continued to eat.

  He looked up as a woman glided over to their table, her crimson dress sticking to every part of her body and her makeup flawless. “Simon,
darling! It is you! I was just saying to Clarice that it looks like you. How are you?”

  Savannah felt her skin pricking as she recognized her. Another woman in the long line up of women her father had been with since her mother died.

  “Kim Lee, very nice to see you.” Simon got to his feet and embraced her before letting go quickly as if afraid of his daughter’s disapproval.

  “And of course this is the lovely Doctor Savannah,” the woman said graciously. “I understand you are over at Hope General?”

  “I am.” Savannah nodded briefly. “Would you excuse me? I need to go the ladies’ room.” She almost fled from the table and making sure there was no one in the stalls she stood I front of one of the mirrors and took several deep breaths. This had been a mistake! She should not have agreed to come to dinner with him. There were no mending fences where she and her father were concerned! The love that had maybe been between them when she was little had died a slow death over the years and there was no going back! It was because of him that made it hard for her to enter into a relationship!

  “Okay, girl! You are better than you have ever been before. You are not a little girl anymore who needs Daddy’s approval. You are a grown ass woman and you are going to be okay!” If only she believed that!

  *****

  ‘The drug is taking the market by storm! It is working in spite of a few hiccups and the FDA has given us their seal of approval. What more do we want?” Melvin Thomas, one of the senior members of the board, asked in exasperation.

  “The hiccups you mentioned are too many to ignore,” Fabian, the youngest member of the board and a medical doctor, said as he looked around the large conference room. “The drug is effective in curing some of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s but the side effects will prove to be detrimental in the long run.”

  “What do you suggest?” Gavin asked before anyone else could say anything.

  “We wait.” Fabian looked at the man sitting in the seat of authority gratefully. They were more than just employer and employee but had been friends since college. “We do some more tests and see what is going on. It is a potential cure for the disease but it needs ironing out.”