Questions Of Trust: A Medical Romance (22 page)

Afterwards, as they lay languidly on the sofa, her hair a curtain over his face, his hand slowly, exquisitely stroking her naked back, Chloe closed her eyes. She had a sudden vision of Mark, his face looking down at her from some undefined point. She’d had a vision like this many a time in the last year, and usually it was accompanied by a small storm of emotions: anger, and regret, and longing, and intense guilt, and the terrible sadness of recognising that happiness was gone forever.

This time, there was none of that. This time, Mark’s appearance brought her a sense of profound peace. Love, too, and the bittersweet ache of loss; but peace, too. And for the first time, she noticed Mark was smiling.

Goodbye, my love
, she said silently.
I’ll always love you. And now I love another. It is possible, you know.

Presently Chloe began to shake slightly. Tom swept her hair aside with his hand and peered into her face.

‘What’s so funny?’ he grinned, amused but puzzled. 

‘I was just thinking,’ she said. ‘How long did it take us to get together? And how long has it been since we… well, we first decided we wanted to be with each other? And now here we are, alone together for the first time, and we still haven’t quite made it to the bedroom.’

He kissed her, long and playfully, on the mouth. ‘There’ll be plenty of opportunity for that later.’

‘Promise?’

Tom smiled.

‘Trust me,’ he said.

THE END

AFTERWORD

Thanks for reading
Questions Of Trust
– I hope you liked it. Needless to say, all the characters are fictional; but all fiction’s drawn from life, to some extent, and so inevitably aspects of people I know or have met have crept into my characters.

If you’ve enjoyed this book, you might like to try my first romance novel,
St Matthew’s Passion
, also available for Kindle from Amazon (see next page for details).

And if you’d like to get in touch with me, please do:
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Finally, I’d be most grateful if you’d consider leaving a review of
Questions Of Trust
on Amazon. Reviews get books noticed, and are useful to us authors in their own right. Many thanks!

Sam Archer

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ST MATTHEW’S PASSION

A Medical Romance

A novel about romance, about passion, and about the choices a man and a woman are forced to make between love and their careers

Melissa Havers is one of the brightest rising young stars in the ultra-competitive world of trauma surgery. When she lands a position at the prestigious St Matthew’s Hospital in London, she’s determined to beat the odds as a woman and become the best in her field.

But Melissa didn’t expect her boss, Daniel Finmore-Gage - Fin, as he’s known, and the most brilliant surgeon in the city - to have quite such an impact on her from the start.

And she certainly didn’t expect to fall in love with him.

Fin, though, has his reasons for not returning Melissa’s feelings. He’s been married before, he’s too professional to abuse the authority he has over her - and he harbours a dark secret which he can’t reveal to Melissa, and which has made him vow he’ll never put anything before his work.

Not even love...

As the powerful forces which bind these two strong, vital personalities threaten to disrupt the very functioning of the service to which they’ve both dedicated their professional careers, a crisis occurs which will test not only the bond between them, but also their commitment to the lives they’ve chosen for themselves.

Breathtaking in its suspense, and heartbreaking in its portrayal of a love affair that appears at once inevitable and doomed to failure,
St Matthew’s Passion
is a thrilling novel by a practising doctor which blends authentic specialist medical detail with a universal story of the complexities of the human heart.

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