The Doctor She Blackmailed

Ada Reyes has been an ER nurse for eight years. She knows what a lie looks like on a monitor. So when she walks in on the hospital's best trauma surgeon stitching a man who is officially dead, she doesn't scream. She bargains. Her brother owes forty thousand dollars to people who do not send reminders. Dr. Ilya Voronov should end this. One phone call. Instead he keeps her close — on his service, in his car, under his name — because she knows, and because every shift she stands next to him he finds it harder to send her home. Then his family orders him to marry a rival's daughter. And Ilya Voronov, who has never refused them anything, says no — out loud, at the table, with Ada standing behind him. Now the family wants them both. And the only hands steady enough to save him are hers.