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Dancing in the Moonlight - Harlequin.com

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Chapter Seven<br />

Maggie belonged <strong>in</strong> this world.<br />

As he listened to her translate f<strong>in</strong>al <strong>in</strong>structions to his<br />

last patient of <strong>the</strong> day—Carmela Sanchez, twenty-one<br />

years old and at thirty-five weeks gestation with her first<br />

baby—Jake didn’t miss <strong>the</strong> way Maggie’s eyes softened<br />

as she looked at Carmela, how her exhaustion and pa<strong>in</strong><br />

seemed to slip away while she helped someone else.<br />

He had seen Carmela several times for prenatal visits<br />

over <strong>the</strong> past three months, but <strong>in</strong> those o<strong>the</strong>r visits she<br />

had always only listened solemnly as he mentioned a<br />

few th<strong>in</strong>gs that would be go<strong>in</strong>g on with her pregnancy.<br />

She had never asked him a s<strong>in</strong>gle question, had<br />

always seemed eager simply to take whatever pr<strong>in</strong>ted <strong>in</strong>formation<br />

he had about her stage of pregnancy and leave.

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