Just One Night - Josh & Bailey by Melanie Shawn

Author:Melanie Shawn [Shawn, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance, fiction
Publisher: Red Hot Reads Publishing
Published: 2018-12-10T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Bailey stepped into the hallway and her eyes filled with moisture as she exhaled. The surgery had been a success, so the tears filling her eyes had nothing to do with the tiny heart she’d just finished operating on. Nor did it have anything to do with the talk she was about to have with the parents.

There would be no devastating news to deliver today. Everything had been textbook. The infant had been born with two heart diseases. One caused a blocked valve and the other caused him to have two holes in the left side of his heart.

Bailey had gone in and successfully cleared the blocked valve but he’d need to wait until he was older, at least three months, to close up the holes. All indications pointed to a full recovery, which meant that the baby boy should be able to live a long and healthy life.

So why am I crying?

She leaned against the wall and closed her eyes, taking a moment to pull herself together. If she had to venture a guess at why she was having a mini-meltdown she’d say there might be a few contributors.

This had been the first surgery that she’d performed since losing a patient and everything had gone well. These tears could be happy ones.

She’d seen Josh kissing someone outside his shop, which in her mind put the final nail in the coffin of their relationship. This could be a delayed response to that.

Or, and more likely, the pool of tears that were threatening to go full waterworks was because she had an extremely personal connection to the surgery that she’d just performed. It was the same one that had inspired her to be a pediatric cardiac surgeon.

A day she never let herself think about came rushing back to her in flashes. The delivery of what appeared to be a healthy baby. A nurse getting a strange expression on her face before calling another nurse into the room. A doctor being called and the three of them huddled together around the tiny newborn’s incubator.

“Hey, you alright?”

Bailey looked up and saw CiCi standing in front of her with concern brimming in her blue eyes. Behind her, the male infant was being wheeled to a recovery room.

“Yeah.” Bailey pushed off the wall and wiped her face when she realized that her cheeks were damp from tears that must’ve fallen. “I’m fine.”

“You sure?” CiCi was not convinced. “I can see if Dr. Lee can do the post-op consult.”

“No, I’m good. Just a little tired.” It was a broad excuse that covered all manner of sins. No one questioned when a surgeon said that they were tired.

CiCi stood for just a moment longer, her gaze assessing the situation before she followed behind the incubator taking baby Carter to recovery.

“Jacob and Angie Carter are the parents. They’re kids, but really sweet. They are in the family room,” she said before she walked out the door.

Bailey started walking toward the family waiting room, the larger of the two waiting rooms in the pediatric unit at HCC.

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