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until a few days before his starting date, when he’d had a meeting with Geetha to fill in the remaining paperwork.
    ‘The staff here are very friendly, especially Reggie,’ Geetha had told him after they’d finished dealing with the red tape. Flynn had literally frozen at the name.
    ‘Reggie?’ It might not be the same person, he’d rationalised, astonished to find his heartbeat had increased. The name ‘Reggie’ might actually be referring to a man named Reginald, not a dynamic woman called Regina who had the biggest blue eyes, fringed with dark lashes and the most encompassing laugh he’d ever heard.
    ‘Reggie Smith, she’s one of our general surgeons.’ Geetha had shaken her head. ‘Incredibly talented, should have been head of department years ago but instead she prefers to work as a functioning member of the team, at least that’s what she tells me.’
    ‘Reggie Smith.’ Flynn had settled back in his chair, his heart racing at the thought that soon he’d see Reggie again. Was that a good thing? He’d thought about her constantly over the past six years, especially when his marriage had broken up. He’d been tempted timeand time again to find her, to track her down, but what would he say to her when they met again?
I’m sorry I broke your heart. Can we try again, please, because I can’t seem to get you out of my mind?
    He’d also presumed she would be happily married with a couple of children, that she’d moved on with her life…her life without him. Thoughts like that had stopped him from trying to find her. Reggie deserved the world of happiness, especially after the abominable way he’d treated her, and if she’d found that happiness with some other man, he did not want to know about it.
    Now, though, not only had he been granted the opportunity to see her but to also work alongside her. She wasn’t married, didn’t have children, and if the way she’d just whispered his name into the pillow was any indication, perhaps there was a small spark of hope. It was clear, on his part, that the attraction he’d felt all those years ago certainly hadn’t diminished. The question was, could Reggie forgive him for his past behaviour? If she couldn’t, there was no hope of them moving forward together.
    His phone started to ring and he quickly left the room, wondering who would be calling him at this hour of the night. Another emergency? He hoped not. He didn’t want to leave Reggie alone in his town house, concerned she’d wake up and not know where she was.
    He checked the caller ID and saw it was Violet. He quickly answered the call. ‘Hey, Vi. Everything OK?’
    ‘It’s Ian,’ she told him. ‘He has a temperature. I don’t know what to do. You know I fall to pieces when he gets sick.’
    ‘What are his symptoms?’ Flynn walked through to the lounge and slumped down into a comfortablechair as he listened to Violet describe five-year-old Ian’s symptoms. ‘It does sound like it’s just a tummy bug, especially as you haven’t been feeling well. You’ve given him paracetamol?’
    ‘No. No. Good idea. I’ll do that. Hold on. Don’t hang up.’
    Flynn closed his eyes, feeling strange receiving a phone call from Violet while Reggie was asleep in the next room. It was as though the two different parts of his life, family and the separate life he was trying to build, were once more colliding. He’d been given a second chance with Reggie and he wasn’t going to blow this one. If she knew he was still in contact with Violet, that might jeopardise everything, and the fact that she’d just been murmuring his name in her sleep was a good sign that things
were
progressing the way he was hoping.
    However, he also knew he’d have to tell her about Violet…at some point. Right now, though, he was going to do his best to keep his two very different worlds as far apart as possible. He didn’t want anything jeopardising the chance that he and Reggie might be able to pick up where they’d