My Forever Valentine: New Zealand Happy-Ever-After Romance (Due South: A Sexy New Zealand Romance Book 5) Read Free

need to check your vitals first.”
    His sexy nurse turned and bent over the chair, rummaging in her backpack. The dress slid up over her ass, exposing teeny tiny pink panties that had almost disappeared into her ass cheeks.
    Make that his sexy evil nurse.
    He was gonna end up back in surgery, for sure—this time having suffered a cardiac arrest. Del swallowed, tried to speak, failed, tried again.
    His voice came out raspy, as if he’d been choking on crackers. “I thought you said you’d wear crotchless panties the day you started baking muffins out of a box?”
    She straightened, smoothing down her skirt and hooking a kid’s plastic stethoscope around her neck. “It’s our first Valentine’s Day together. I wanted it to be memorable.”
    “Oh, cupcake, I’ll never forget this,” he said as she sashayed over to his bed and sat on the edge.
    She leaned over him, resting her forearm on his chest to keep him pinned, and then kissed him. He got punch-drunk from the taste of her, from the feel of her silky nylons under his fingers as he ran a hand up her thigh. Maybe he’d donate a body part more often if he could get quality after-care like this…
    Muffled snickers and someone clearing their throat jabbed into his eardrums—followed a micro-second later by Shaye wrenching her mouth from his. She whipped her head around so fast he had a moment’s concern about whiplash, then his gaze shot past her to the doorway.
    Ben and Piper stood side by side, arms folded. Piper, with lips pressed together and hazel eyes dancing with humor. Ben, with lips pressed together and his brown eyes dancing with threats of disembowelment.
    Things just got interesting…
     
    ***
     
    If it were possible for a person to trigger self-detonating spontaneous combustion, Shaye would’ve fried herself up in that instant.
    As it was, the hot flush of blood spreading up her body whoomphed into her cheeks and made her feel like Mrs. Brailsford, who was always telling anyone who’d listen about her menopausal hot flashes.
    She licked dry lips then blurted, “What are you two doing here? And haven’t you ever heard of knocking?”
    Her big sister grinned at her. “Sorry, nursie. We had to sneak past Nurse Ratched, and since Bill was sleeping, we decided to check on the Hollywood hero.”
    Nursie…
    Shaye’s mortification rose a notch as the chest piece of the plastic stethoscope bumped against her thigh—her stocking-covered thigh upon which Del’s hand still rested. She snatched up her coat and draped it over her legs, hauling the top half up to cover the girls who were almost busting out of the low-cut dress.
    Damn those cheap Halloween costumes!
    She shoved Del’s hand off and cleared her throat. “Yes, well, visiting hours aren’t for another thirty minutes—and aren’t you two meant to be on a shark dive expedition?”
    “Had three clients come down with bad seasickness; they called the rest of the afternoon off,” her brother said. “Thought we might as well come for a visit and pick up another anti-seasick bracelet for Pipe, who also barfed big time.”
    Shaye didn’t need to turn her head to know Del was grinning behind her.
    “Nice as it is for you to grace us poor invalids with your presence,” Del said, “and I mean this in the most loving, future-brother-in-law-ish way—but piss off, we’re busy.”
    Her brother’s eyes slitted as Del’s hand dove under the folds of her coat, returning to her leg.
    “I can see that,” Ben growled. “And if you hadn’t put a ring on it already, I’d be ripping off that arm of yours, invalid or not.”
    Piper kicked Ben’s ankle with her purple combat boot. “Oh, shut up. It’s not as if we haven’t caught you and Kezia snogging in some dark corner more than once. Besides, this is payback for Del walking in on West and me last year.” She wriggled her eyebrows at Shaye and Del.
    The tips of Ben’s ears warmed to a glowing pink. “C’mon, Stubby, let’s go and see if