The Doctor and The Billionaire, Book 2 and Book 3

By Mark Mulle

Sweet Medicine, Book Two: Misunderstood
Dr. Karen Carver has spent five years trying to put her past behind her and move on. She rarely trusts easily. This is the case with Benton Gregory, the billionaire business man whose corporation runs the free clinic where Karen volunteers her afternoons two days a week. But when he pushed his way into her life, she gave an inch and watched him walk away as though her offer had no meaning to him.

Karen runs into Benton at the free clinic, only to have him look through her as though she is not even there. Then she discovers that her father, the one man who has destroyed her ability to trust, is trying to thrust his way back into her life. When Benton shows up to ask for forgiveness, Karen turns to him for the oblivion she craves to forget her past once again. But when the two men come face to face, Karen finds herself in the middle of a battle she doesn’t understand and one in which she has no idea which side to choose.

Sweet Medicine, Book Three: Miscomputed
Dr. Karen Carver is the daughter of a controlling man who is unhappy with her professional choices. In an attempt to force her back into his clutches, he offers her an ultimatum: come home or she will not have a part in the assets her mother intended for Karen to have. At the same time, Karen finds herself caught between the man she thought was interested in her and an investigation into wrong doings at the free clinic where she volunteers her time.

Karen engages a lawyer to handle her father, but steps away from the free clinic in an attempt to protect her heart from the lies and deception of its founder. However, when Benton Gregory lands on her doorstep and insists that the assertion by Dee Walton that he was her boyfriend was false. In fact, Benton was only with Dee in an attempt to find proof that she is the one who has been stealing from the free clinic.

Karen’s only experience with men is the overbearing ways of her father. At the same time she is trying to break free from his control, she finds herself increasingly drawn to a man who has the power to either make her happier than she ever imagined she could be, or destroy her so completely she would likely never recover.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Mulle
• Release date: Jul 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310218545

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The Doctor and The Billionaire, Book 2 and Book 3

By J.M. Cagle

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Other Books in the Series

Book One: Misled

Table of Contents

Book Two: Misunderstood

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Book Three: Miscomputed

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

About J.M. Cagle

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Book Two: Misunderstood

Chapter 1

Karen hesitated with her hand on the clinic door. It wasn’t long enough for anyone else to notice. But she noticed, and she was angry at herself for it.

Benton didn’t call.

Karen told herself she shouldn’t have expected him to call, but somehow she had. He had left her standing in his kitchen after the call came about the break-in at the clinic without so much as a parting word. Just left. He was the one who had pursued her, yet he just left her standing there as if nothing had happened between them. As if he hadn’t just kissed her with an intensity she had never felt before. As if it hadn’t taken a few, long, confused moments for her heart to return to its normal rhythm after he walked away.

Twenty-four hours was a long time to wait for a phone call. She kept trying to tell herself, even as she jumped each time the phone rang at her office that day, that he was a busy man and had the mess at the clinic to deal with on top of running a multi-billion-dollar corporation. A phone call to some woman he had kissed in his kitchen wasn’t likely on the top of his to-do list.

But would it have killed him to make some sort of effort?

Karen shook her head as she moved through the crowded waiting room at the clinic, feeling a little stupid for the direction of her thoughts. It wasn’t like she wanted a relationship with Benton Gregory, anyway. He was too much like the men of her childhood. Too much like her father. The last thing Karen needed in her life right now was a self-righteous, overly privileged, arrogant man.

No matter how amazing his kisses were.

Hi, Dr. Carver, May, one of the nurses at the clinic, said as Karen paused to sign in.

Busy today, huh?

Busier than usual. And complicated by the people from Gregory Industries.

They’re here?

May gestured behind her, her normally cheerful face twisted into a grimace. They’ve been going through the paperwork and the security tapes all day, getting in the way and blocking the exam rooms as if this weren’t a working clinic with everybody in the neighborhood coming down with the flu.

Karen glanced behind her, taking note of the number of people with upper respiratory symptoms sitting in the hard, plastic chairs. That time of the year.

Yeah. I hope you had your shot.

Last week. Karen offered May what she hoped was an encouraging smile as she slipped through the door that led to the back of the clinic. Hopefully this won’t last long.

I don’t know. May took hold of Karen’s arm and pulled her close before whispering, They arrested Nina yesterday. Said she was stealing from the narcotics cabinet.

Are you serious? Karen asked, hoping her disbelief didn’t sound as fake to May as it did to her own ears.

Not only that, but someone broke in last night. They took a bunch of supplies and more drugs.

Do they have any idea who it was?

May shook her head, but there was something about the way she looked toward Dee’s office that made Karen wonder if May knew something she didn’t.

I suppose the cops are looking at the local gangs.

Yeah. But I don’t think they’ll find much there.

Who do you think it was?

May turned toward Karen, lowering her voice even more. I heard the back door was left unlocked and the security camera back there malfunctioned.

Karen bit her lip to keep from arguing with May. In order for that to be true, someone from inside the clinic would have had to been involved in the theft. But Nina was in jail, and she was the only one who would have had a reason to do such a thing, what with her thefts of narcotics from the clinic to give her brother to sell on the streets.

Was it possible that Nina was innocent and the real culprit had been behind this break-in?

Only three people have a key to the back door. And only two have access to the security cameras.

Who? Karen asked.

May glanced back at Dee’s door. Dee, Benji, and me.

Did Nina have a key to the back door?

May nodded.

A patient stepped out of an exam room and called out, Hey, when is someone going to come see my kid? We’ve been in here for nearly an hour.

Dr. Westhoven didn’t show this morning, May said.

I’ll do it.

May reached over and grabbed a patient chart off her desk. There’s another one in exam 2, and three of your patients in the waiting room for you.

Busy day. Karen confidently turned toward the patient’s mother, words of reassurance on her lips that fell unspoken to the floor when Dee’s office door opened and a group of suited men spilled out.

With Benton towering over them all.

Chapter 2

She wasn’t sure what she had expected. For him to catch her eye and smile. For him to apologize for not calling. For him to at least acknowledge that he saw her standing there. But she didn’t get any of that.

Instead, he brushed passed her as though she weren’t