Destined to Feel by Indigo Bloome

Author:Indigo Bloome [Bloome, Indigo]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781743098028
Google: DZzcN0Lj0vQC
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012-09-20T21:00:00+00:00

‘Good, hopefully they are all still here.’ She picks up her phone. Obviously, Martin is on speed dial.

‘Martin. Malek here. I’m with Quinn and Webster at Bled Hospital. Blake was sighted being loaded into an ambulance outside Kranj and we believe she is inside. We’re heading in for surveillance and will send an update ASAP.’

Efficient on the phone as well, obviously.

‘Ready?’ she asks. ‘Remember you are here as a patient, Quinn. Quite convenient that you had your fall under these circumstances.’ I don’t like being considered a patient or convenient by someone I barely know. It’s not like I’m looking for sympathy, but I doubt I would get it from her anyway. We both nod as she pulls up to the hospital entrance to let us out and then quickly parks the car in visitor parking. I don’t need to pretend to limp to the front desk, as the pain is steadily mounting in my knee and hip. The nurse speaks a little English as we attempt to explain my injuries. When she leaves her desk to come around to inspect my leg, Salina quietly slips by into the shadows of the corridor.

I try to explain that I’m a doctor as she escorts me into a small curtained room and indicates for me to sit down in the chair. She insists on finding the locum doctor and wanders off, giving Sam the opportunity to check the rooms on the other side of the hospital.

A friendly young Indian doctor eventually introduces himself and he speaks good English. I tell him I was hiking and that I’m happy to give myself stitches if he can provide the equipment.

He looks hesitant until I pull out my medical card from my wallet and then he smiles. ‘Okay, doctor, good. Very good.’ He shakes my hand before telling the nurse to supply me with what I need. Thankfully, the procedures at this hospital don’t seem to be as strict as in the States or Australia. When she returns with the equipment I get to work and as the doctor is still loitering around I decide to find out what I can.

‘Do you have many people working on this shift?’ It is the least busy hospital I’ve encountered for many years.

‘Only myself and two nurses. We are never too busy here. There is another intern who rosters on occasionally from Ljubljana and one specialist doctor who sometimes brings his own patients, but otherwise it is quiet most of the time.’

‘And the ambulance that recently arrived, is everything okay?’

He looks distracted as he fills in the paperwork. ‘Ambulance? Oh yes, that is the specialist doctor I was just talking about, one of his patients just arrived. Very serious. It’s not looking so good.’

I almost pierce the needle straight into my wound at his words. ‘What? What do you mean, not looking so good?’ I feel myself break into a sweat and I can’t keep the angst out of my voice.

He flips over the paper on his board. ‘You know how it is, Doctor…’ He looks down again at his paperwork.

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