A Love Melody by Grace Roberts

Author:Grace Roberts
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2013-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

*** Present day ***

It was a rainy, February night, and though it was close to midnight, it had unexpectedly been a quiet shift so far. Valerie had spent most of the time chatting with the nurses and rearranging patients’ files in the office behind the nurses’ desk.

When they’d called her to replace Doctor Moore on the night shift, she’d reluctantly had to cancel her dinner arrangements with Ryan. He’d come back the day before from a European tour that had started soon after New Year’s Day and he’d invited her out to dinner, knowing she’d have the night off. She’d felt flattered that he’d wanted to spend time with her, even though his girlfriend was in town and he could’ve gone out with her instead. But Jennifer had been with him most of the time during his tour, so it was Valerie’s turn to spend time with him now—she was glad he’d thought the same.

She’d missed him so much these past six weeks. Ever since he’d become a celebrity and started touring, she always felt as if a piece of her heart went away with him wherever he traveled. She never felt complete until he came back.

She’d just started writing a text message to him when the sliding doors to the ER opened, and two paramedics came in pushing a stretcher with a person on it. Valerie sprang up from her chair and rushed toward them, followed by Sharon, one of the nurses on shift. When she realized how bad this casualty was, Valerie’s blood went cold.

“Male, thirty-one, car accident,” Allan, the chief paramedic, said in his usual professional tone. “His vitals are critical, his blood pressure is low, we’ve attached him to a saline drip, but I think he might have internal damage. He needs immediate surgery.”

Surgery.

The word rang in her head like an alarm bell and she froze in place. It wasn’t until she’d reached the hospital to start her shift that she’d found out that she was the only surgeon on duty in the ER that night—even though, technically she couldn’t really consider herself a surgeon anymore. To say she hadn’t been pleased would be putting it mildly, but she was sure there had to be surgeons working in the wards she could call, if needed. Even so, she’d spent the night praying that no bad casualties needing surgery would be brought in until her shift was over.

And now she was face to face with her worst nightmare. That man needed a surgeon, and she was a surgeon after all, but she’d never be able to operate on him.

“Sharon, we need to call someone else,” she said, her voice shaking just as much as her hands. “We need to call a surgeon.”

“I thought you were a surgeon, before you moved to the ER?” Allan asked, although the reason why she’d left surgery was common knowledge. His tone was skeptical, as if he couldn’t believe a doctor could refuse to save a patient.

“I can’t do it. I

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