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Chapters (92)
  1. First
  2. Love Connection
  3. Zero
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. Six
  10. Seven
  11. Eight
  12. Nine
  13. Ten
  14. Eleven
  15. One Month Later
  16. Twelve
  17. Thirteen
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. Six Months Later
  21. Sixteen
  22. Seventeen
  23. Eighteen
  24. Nineteen
  25. Twenty
  26. Twenty-one
  27. Twenty-two
  28. Twenty-three
  29. Twenty-four
  30. Six Months Later
  31. Twenty-five
  32. Twenty-six
  33. Twenty-seven
  34. Twenty-eight
  35. Twenty-nine
  36. Thirty
  37. Thirty-one
  38. Thirty-two
  39. Thirty-three
  40. I Have Never
  41. One
  42. Two
  43. Three
  44. Four
  45. Five
  46. Six
  47. Seven
  48. Eight
  49. Nine
  50. Ten
  51. Eleven
  52. Twelve
  53. Thirteen
  54. Fourteen
  55. Fifteen
  56. Sixteen
  57. Seventeen
  58. Eighteen
  59. Nineteen
  60. Twenty
  61. Twenty-one
  62. Twenty-two
  63. A Christmas Date
  64. One
  65. Two
  66. Three
  67. Four
  68. Five
  69. Six
  70. Seven
  71. Eight
  72. Nine
  73. Ten
  74. Eleven
  75. Twelve
  76. Thirteen
  77. Fourteen
  78. Fifteen
  79. Sixteen
  80. Seventeen
  81. Eighteen
  82. Nineteen
  83. Twenty
  84. Twenty-one
  85. Twenty-two
  86. Note from the Author
  87. Sneak Peek – To the Stars and Back
  88. Two
  89. Three
  90. Four
  91. Also by Camilla Isley
  92. About the Author

“What then? Nurse? Patient? Admin?” I’m trying to think of all the love stories that have ever taken place in Grey’s Anatomy to evaluate the possible combinations. I know I shouldn’t be jealous, but I can’t help it. I feel more possessive of Jake than ever before. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m older, or because now that I know how it feels to lose him, I don’t want to go through it ever again.

“Neither.”

“And where did you meet her?”

“In the parking lot.”

This doesn’t sound right.

“So she’s not a colleague, or a nurse, or a patient. Who is she?”

“The right question would be: what is she?”

“Meaning?”

“She’s a cat.”

“You—horrible you.” I start protesting and swatting him, both with my wooden spoon and my free hand, but he suppresses my rebellion, grabbing me by the waist and planting a playful kiss on my lips. “You had me worried there for a second.”

“I told you I loved messing with you.” He ruffles my hair again and leans in to give me another kiss.

“And you made friends with a cat, how?”

“When I went outside to eat my tuna sandwich lunch, she was standing there in a green patch in the parking lot just outside the hospital. I sat on a bench to eat and she followed me.”

“You or the tuna sandwich?”

“Both I guess. Anyway, I patted her, and she purred. Then she started staring at me, keeping the purring going.”

“And you fell victim to the purring-staring combo?”

“I did.”

“Happens to the best of us. It’s impossible not to crumble under the pressure of a kitty stare. So you gave her some of your sandwich.”

“Worse. I gave her so much I had to go in and buy a new one, and I ate it in the canteen because I knew that if I went back out, I’d give her my second sandwich too.”

“You’re so cute.” My heart swells with love. What did I do to deserve this man? He’s gorgeous, a doctor, and feeds stray cats. He’s impossibly kind and very much in love with me. If this is a dream, I never want to wake up. Now that I have Jake back in my life, I could never imagine living without him. A shiver goes through me as I imagine what could have happened if I’d chosen to go to Chicago instead. How horrible and lonely would my life be right now? I shake the thought away.

“You think she’s a stray?” I ask.

“Yeah. She was so thin, she looked famished.”

“You want to bring her home?”

“I’d say yes, but what if she has kittens hidden somewhere? They’d die without their mom.”