Into the Blue by Robin Huber

Author:Robin Huber [Huber, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: exciting hero, hero saves heroine romance, sexy romance, sexy hero, falling in love
Publisher: Robin Huber
Published: 2020-08-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Makayla

“Mia?” I call from the front of the small clinic. I look around the space, recalling the days I spent here—my first days on the island, before I discovered its magic. Before I discovered Kellan.

That was only six weeks ago, but it could be a lifetime for how much it’s changed me. It reminds me of when my parents died. You don’t go back from something like that. You can’t. So you fortify yourself and wait to become...something different...someone different...like a caterpillar inside its chrysalis. I don’t know what, or who, I will be at the end of all this, but I’ve been fortified by a man who’s wrapped himself around my heart and seeped into every cell in my body. I’ll never be the same again.

“Makayla,” Mia says, smiling when she sees me. “Are you ready for your lesson?”

“Yes,” I say studiously. I’ve been helping at the clinic for the last couple of weeks now—once I was finally feeling comfortable enough to be away from Kellan for a few hours. And Mia was right. It’s a great distraction. I’ve learned all sorts of medical terms and she even taught me how to do stitches.

I follow her to the back of the clinic. “Where’s Adam?”

“He had to help Dr. H at the village this morning.”

“Carlita?”

“She made it to thirty-nine weeks, but the baby is breech, so they were going to try to get it to turn. I’ve seen it done before. It’s not easy.”

“You know, my mom was an obstetrician. She delivered thousands of babies.”

“Have you thought about becoming a doctor?”

“I’ve thought about it.”

“Maybe you could follow in your mom’s footsteps.”

“I don’t know...I’ve never even seen a birth.”

“I’d say Google it, but you’ll have to wait until you get home.” She smiles. “I know, why don’t you ask Dr. H if you can assist with Carlita? He said I could.”

“You’re in actual medical school,” I remind Mia.

“The villagers are used to more rudimentary practices when it comes to medicine. The fact that you’re a woman qualifies you to help with a birth.” She laughs and hands me a stack of empty notecards. “Come on, let’s get started.”

With no patients from the village to look after, she takes the opportunity to teach me every new medical term she can think of. And, like any good student, I scribble the terms and definitions diligently. Before long, I’ve filled the entire stack of notecards with words like Laparotomy and Atropine.

“You seem quiet today,” she says suspiciously. “Trouble in paradise?” She gives me a knowing glance.

I shake my head and laugh quietly. “No. Kellan is...wonderful.”

She studies me for a long second. “You’re in love with him, aren’t you?”

I press my lips together and nod. “Yes,” I answer quietly, “I am.”

She smiles at me, but when I don’t return one, she asks, “What’s wrong?”

“I don’t know.” I shake my head uncertainly.

“What don’t you know?”

“I don’t know if it’s real. Or if it’s normal to feel like this. Kellan is...my life support. But life off the island is a big unknown.

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