“Yes, we got them. Nothing untoward there. And Millicent seems in perfect health.”
I was a little disconcerted by how unemotional he was with Millie, considering she was cute as fuck and it was physically impossible not to smile at her. Maybe he just wasn’t a babyperson. I never thought I was until Harley came along. “We call her Millie.”
“Eilidh tells me you have full custody of Millie now.” Dr. Phillips handed my daughter back to me.
I frowned. “Eilidh?”
The doctor narrowed his eyes. “You do know that we’re seeing each other? Me and Eilidh. She’s my girlfriend. She didn’t tell you?”
What the actual fuck?
Blood rushed in my ears as a sickening roiling sensation moved through me at his revelation.
“You and Eilidh Adair?” I felt the need to confirm.
The bastard smiled smugly. “For weeks now. We’re getting quite serious.”
A jagged sharpness blazed from my heart.
Jealousy.
It was an ugly fucking emotion.
“Is that right?” I looked away because I was afraid he’d recognize my sudden need to punch his lights out. Instead, I focused on putting Millie back into the baby carrier. “Funny. If you’re so serious, why has she never mentioned you?” I felt the words bubbling up before I could stop them as I lifted my chin to meet his gaze in challenge. “She clearly mentioned me and Millie to you.”
Dr. Phillips narrowed his eyes. “Well, Eilidh’s a kind person who is happy to help out a man she considers a brother.”
That’s when I knew.
He had no idea Eilidh had admitted to being in love with me.
My gut twisted.
She’d told me she loved me not that long ago and now she was dating this prick? Make that make sense.
“Are we done here?” I stood, and Millie made grumbling noises that suggested if we weren’t, she certainly was.
“We’re done. You can make an appointment with the receptionist for Millicent’s next set of immunizations.” He turned away to tap information into Millie’s records.
I clenched my teeth, the sudden image of this fucker kissing and touching Eilidh filling my mind and then my chest with a pain I couldn’t stand. Possessiveness thrummed through every beat of my heart as I strode to the door and opened it. I blamed it for the devil that rode me as I glanced back at the doctor who watched me with a look in his eyes I did not fucking like. “Just so you know … Eilidh’s never thought of me as a brother. And Idefinitelydon’t think of her as a sister.”
I walked out before he could respond.
Millie chatted to me in her baby voice.
“It’s okay, wee yin. Dad’s just having a life-changing, ground-shaking epiphany.”
“Ae!”
Her hopeful little expression fueled me. “Aye, wee yin. Exactly.”
Twenty-Three
EILIDH
It had been a rare day in the Highlands. Summer had come a wee bit early and since Fyfe had Millie all day, I had time to myself to soak up the hot spring sun. I’d taken a lounger and side table out of my parents’ storage at the back of the annex and planted it in their back garden. With the sea ahead of me, light glistening on the water, the heat on my skin, I’d lain there and enjoyed the soothing, rhythmic lull of the waves hitting the coastline below. Throughout the afternoon, I vacillated between napping and making notes about my script.
It was the first day in such a long time that I felt truly relaxed.
