Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 68500 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 343(@200wpm)___ 274(@250wpm)___ 228(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 68500 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 343(@200wpm)___ 274(@250wpm)___ 228(@300wpm)
“Dr. Drew,” Tammy said sharply. “Your patients need you. I think Dr. Kent can handle it by himself.”
I watched Felix’s eyebrows lower down and a flash of anger cross his face before he beat it back for the sake of his patient.
Ruh-roh. Felix was not happy with Tammy.
Good.
Because when he was done in here, I needed to talk to him about her attitude.
“Sure thing,” I smiled, though it didn’t reach my eyes. “I’ll just head that way now.”
I made eye contact with Felix, telling him without words that we needed to talk, and left.
I didn’t hear what he said to the kid, but whatever he said must’ve been funny because the kid burst out giggling.
I made it to the main open area of the ER and looked toward the nurses’ station. Tammy was nowhere to be found.
I did spot Lori and Rose talking, though, and said to each of them, “What’s the issue?”
“What are you talking about?” Lori asked.
“Tammy came in busting my balls because I have patients, but last I checked, it was only the dude in room four, and he was taken care of when I left,” I grumbled. “Did the tests come back already?”
Lori shook her head. “No. The lab is fast today, but not that fast.”
I nodded, anger filling me at Tammy’s audacity.
But then another patient came in the door with his arm hanging at an awkward angle and the girlfriend who was with him said, “Help! My boyfriend thinks he might’ve broken his arm.”
There was no might’ve about it.
Ol’ homeboy definitely broke his arm.
“Come right in,” I said as I opened the first room I came to that was free.
Once I got him settled, I took a look at the arm up close and said, “If that’s not broken, I’d be very, very surprised.”
He looked at me miserably and said, “I’m fairly sure I can hear bones crunching together when I move it.”
I winced. “I’ll get an X-ray machine in here. Also, I’ll have Rose get you all checked in.”
I also wondered what the hell had happened with triage.
But I was fairly certain that was Tammy’s job today, so it truly didn’t surprise me much that they’d walked right on past her empty desk.
Rose got started on checking the guy in, and I got the order put in for a portable X-ray.
I then went to Felix again and explained what was going on, telling him what I thought should happen.
He agreed, and allowed me to continue with patient care, and I got started.
Felix came in at some point while I was explaining what was going on inside the poor guy’s body.
He’d broken not one, but two bones in his forearm, to the point where it was very obvious that setting the bone wasn’t possible.
Which equaled surgery for the poor guy.
I was just finishing up, Rose helping me, when I spotted movement out of the corner of my eye.
I turned my head just enough to see Felix leaning against the door jamb of the room, a small smile on his face.
That feeling of rightness spread through me.
This.
This was what we’d always talked about from the first day we’d met.
Working together. Helping people. Living our lives the way we wanted to live them.
For ten years, Felix had lived with his aunt and uncle, and their four kids, after his mother had died. During that time, he’d suffered just as much at their hands as I had with my own dad.
And in that time, Felix had a dream.
That dream was to become a doctor.
I often wondered if that was why he’d stopped talking to me. Because I’d been the one to break our promise and left instead of living the life that I wanted to live.
Regardless of his motives, I turned away, finishing up.
Thinking about old times wouldn’t get us anywhere. Well, unless you considered a continuously breaking heart getting anywhere…
CHAPTER 7
I may look innocent, but I screenshot a lot.
-Val to Felix
FELIX
“I have never been so happy to have three days off in my life,” I heard Val say.
I quietly agreed.
Since her sister’s accident, I’d tried my darndest to stay away from her.
Sometimes it worked, even though I was miserable, and others it didn’t.
This being one of those times.
She had no clue that I’d been the one behind making sure she got three days off in a row.
When the next few days had come up with the management team, it’d been decided that since we were on call for the last snowpocalpyse, a few of the other doctors would be on call for this one. Though, that might or might not have been because I’d encouraged them to think that way.
And since Val was my responsibility, she got to have the same days off.
At least, that was also what I had convinced the management team of.
“It’s weird that we’re all getting these days off, since tomorrow is actually our shift,” Tammy snapped.