No! Icy panic, unexpected and unwelcome, cut through his self-centered preoccupation like a sharp knife. “You can’t let that happen!”
She jammed both fists on her hips, and glared up at him. “I’m already doing everything I can, and I’m not the problem! You are! So you can’t let that happen!” she retorted, poking at his wide chest with an imperious finger.
“Me!” He hadn’t expected that, either, and blank confusion rattled his weary brain. “What am I supposed to do? You’re her nurse!”
You’re the man she loves! she wanted to shout back at him. But she bit down on her rising temper. Whatever might develop between Kayla and Alex Matthews was their own business. She intended to stay well out of the blast radius.
“You can help, more than you know,” she said instead, in a gentler voice. “You’v
