With Editor now-Release date first week of July
Blurb soon to be released- His Healing Touch
The
curtain goes back and Kayla re-enters. She’s hands him a folder with a smile,
ignoring me completely. “Thanks. Let’s take a look.” With a last squeeze of my
arm he gets off the bed. Going to the wall he pins up the film to a light box then
turns on the light. He studies it intently for what feels like forever.
“Hmm…there’s no break. The only problem is it still looks really bad. I’m going
to recommend you see Dr. Richardson, he’s one of the best orthopedic surgeons
in the city. I’ll give him a call to see when he can get you in.”
“Don’t
you think I can just wait to see how it feels and if it doesn’t feel better
then go see him?” I hate making a fuss, what if the doctor thought I was being
a baby and told me I’d be fine if I lost fifty pounds?
He
studies me like he did the x-ray, intently with eyes determined to see
everything. His words are soft, his tone curious. “You think it’s a good idea
to endure pain for what, a few days, a week before resolving an issue? Instead
of being seen and identifying the problem immediately? How is that a good
thing?”
Can I
please just crawl away to cry in peace? From long years of dealing with my
parents I give in, he won’t know if I never go. “You’re right, thank you. I
appreciate you referring me to him.”
“Maggie,
I haven’t known you very long however I do know when I’m being lied to.” The
words are clipped, they feel like a rap on my knuckles.
Hanging
my head, I shrug. “I’m sorry. I just don’t get what the fuss is about. Yes it
hurts really bad but it just happened. I’m sure in a few days it will go away.
I’ll keep icing it and the pain will go away.”
Sighing,
he shakes his head. “The best thing for it and your ankle is heat not cold. You
said you can take of yourself only it doesn’t sound like you really can. You’re
going to Dr. Richardson if I have to take you myself.”
Resentment
at his interference bubbles up. God, how embarrassing will it be for him to sit
there and listen to the doctor just say I’m fat? It’s not as though he doesn’t
know that, obviously he knows that. I flop back onto the gurney tunring my back
on him. This day is shit, I just want it to be over now. Fuck, I am not crying.
I am because his fingers are wiping away the tears.
“Maggie,
why are you crying?” His breath is close enough I can feel it over my cheek, he
smells of mint and coffee and dark chocolate.
Go
away, just go away I want to yell. I try to roll away from his touch but he
won’t allow it. A hand goes to my chin holding me toward him. I want to scream.
This isn’t fair what he’s doing to me when I barely know him. Desperate for it
to stop the words explode from me. “He’ll just tell me I’m fat and to lose some
weight if I want the pain to go away!”
I can
hear his harsh intake of breath. His grip tightens on my chin. “Look at me damn
it. Open your eyes and look at me.” The words are grated out. His voice has
gone down to almost guttural. “Stop it, right now. Stop thinking of yourself as
fat because you aren’t. You are a beautiful woman who has curves in all the
right places. From a medical standpoint your body is not unhealthy. From the
standpoint of a man, you are sexy as fuck.”
My
eyes fly open, no fucking way. I have no idea I said the words aloud until he
says them back to me.
“Yes,
fucking way. I was attracted to you the first time I saw you. Pickles is
getting an extremely large bone and you a thousand apologies because I can’t
say I’m sorry for what Pickles did, even seeing you in pain can’t make me
sorry. It’s taken three weeks to get up the nerve to approach you. Then you
looked so bored I was losing the confidence to ask you out.”
The
pain has receded completely in my shock. “You
work up the nerve ask me me out? Are
you fucking with me right now?”
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