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Oh, he wanted to be the man who taught her a lesson in that moment.

Gennywas the woman he wanted, and he was going to have her. Before Fields had a chance to make her soiled goods.

He doubted Genny was a virgin. Not at her age, and looking the way she did. But the idea that she was willingly signing on to just be another number in Chad Fields’s bed…disgusted him. “Don’t you have more morals than to get involved with that sleazebag?”

“I’m not even going to dignify that with an answer.”

“He’s a walking advertisement for an STD. He uses women. I thought you were smarter than that.” Fields. Of course, it would be Fields. The one man in this hospital that Doug hated. Despised.

Now Fields was taking Genny away from him.

“What I choose to do in my private life, and with whom I do it, is none of your damned business. That doesn’t make me a slut, you judgmental jackass.”

“Genny, let’s get out of here.” Dr. Fisher shot Doug a look of censure. “I’m a hairsbreadth away from reporting you myself. I suggest you take the rest of the shift to cool off. Get out of here. Now.”

Doug still had two hours on his shift to go. He tried to protest. Dr. Fisher put herself right between him and Genny. “Go. Now. Or have you forgotten that I am in charge of this emergency department? Clock out now. Or don’t bother coming back here again.”

Doug bit back what he wanted to say. But she was right about one thing. As long as she was the head of the ED, he had to do what the damned bitch said. Especially as long as Alvaro was in her pocket.

But this wasn’t something he was ever going to forget.

Or forgive.

23

Chad was a man on a mission.Friday evening, once his shift in the ED was nearly over—almost everyone rotated covering the small ED—he went hunting.

For the ED nurse he wanted.

He was going to have her, too. Just how to make that happen in a way that no one got hurt, and her brothers didn’t kill him, he hadn’t quite figured out yet. Chad did know one thing: Genny wasn’t the kind of woman a man messed around with.

Not if it was only a casual thing.

He had had two days to contemplate Gunn’s probing question.

Just what were his intentions toward Genesis Hiller?

It had struck him like lightning that very afternoon when she ended up riding over to his parents’ place with her brothers. She’d helped Chantal in the house with feeding everyone, and with his brother’s infants.

It had turned into a party, followed by a barbecue that had had the entire Hiller clan on his parents’ back deck for dinner, along with a bunch of Charlie’s friends from the TSP. Friends who had found Genny and her sisters fascinating. Damnedpoachers. He’d had to run several off from her side as the afternoon had worn on. He’d never felt this possessive of a woman in his life.

Genny was his.

He didn’t want it to be a casual thing. Admittedly, that had been his way before. But he was thirty-seven years old now. He wantedmore. He wanted a woman to look at him the way his sister-in-law Rory had kept looking at Charlie.

Charlie sizzled and turned into a horny caveman, even at his age, when that hot blonde wife of his looked at him like that.

He’d caught Rory and Charlie tangled up together on a blanket in his parents’ barn that afternoon, like they were kids or something. Rory wasn’t quite two years older than Chad—Charlie was more than twelve years older. Far too old for rolling in the hay. Rory had had such a beautiful look on her face when she’d looked at Chad’s brother.

Chad wanted a woman to look at him just like that.

Shortly after, Charlie had bundled his family up and taken them home, a look of happiness in his brother’s eyes that Chad didn’t quite understand just yet. But he’d envied it.

Chad had gone home a few minutes later—after the Hillers had left en masse. He had gone home to…nothing. Not even a cat.

Chad was tired of going home to an empty condo. Of seeing the friends he’d gone to school with like Clay Addy and Jake Dillon having more than what he did. Of envying Caine Alvaro every time his devil of a wife and their five demon children were running around the lower levels of the hospital. Caine came alive when that woman and those kids were near.

Just like Charlie did with Rory.