“Thank you,” Reyona said to Dr Rory Murphy, as he entered.

He was waiting outside the office with the others as Reyona used his temporarily re-arranged office for her calls.

“It is no problem.” said the doctor as he came to sit opposite her in the chair she would have sat as a patient under normal circumstances.

But nothing was normal at the moment and as it was, she was seated in the man’s chair wearing a shirt he had got for his wife over her hospital gown.

The handsome man with a pleasing smile, a high forehead, and a well-built body made him seem more like a bodybuilder than...