Lethal Emergency: a gripping Dr. Zora Smyth Medical Thriller Prequel by Dobi Cross

Author:Dobi Cross [Cross, Dobi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Luxhaven Publishing

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Blood dripped from the younger man onto the floor, and his head lolled downward.

“Please help my brother,” the first man pleaded.

Christina snapped out of the daze she’d been in and rushed forward. “What’s wrong with him?” she asked.

“He’s wounded. I don’t want him to die.” Black soulful eyes swung at Zora and pleaded. “Please help him.”

Zora’s mouth went dry. “But we’re not qualified to do so.” She was only starting medical school in the fall, and Christina, though a newly minted nurse, had no license to practice in Mexico. “I’m only here because I needed help too,” she said, pointing to her ankle. “The nurse-in-charge isn’t around.”

“Zora, let’s help him.” Christina said.

Zora’s heart picked its pace, and she rubbed the back of her neck. What was Christina thinking getting involved? “What do you mean?”

“Didn’t you stitch wounds at the animal shelter? You’ve done it multiple times.”

“But that was on animals! This is a human being. It’s better they go to the hospital.”

“The hospital is thirty minutes away,” the first man said. “If you don’t help him, he’ll die before we get there. Please,” the man said in an emotion-choked voice, his leonine hair leaning in whatever direction his head moved.

“Zora, please help him,” Christina pleaded.

This smelled like trouble. But against her better judgment, Zora said, “Okay, let’s get him on the gurney.”

“Thank you! Thank you!” the man said.

Christina moved to the other side of the younger man and together they led him to the gurney and laid him flat.

Zora looked at the younger man. He appeared unconscious, most likely from all from the bleeding.

She scanned him from head to toe. There didn’t seem to be any other injury except from the area on the right side. It appeared all she had to do was stop that bleeding.

Zora peered closer and then stopped cold.

It was a gunshot wound.

This was trouble, a messy and dangerous trouble. The bitter taste of fear rose in her mouth.

She bit her lip and shot a sidelong glance at Christina, but Christina had her attention on what she was searching for in the cabinet.

Zora felt the man’s eyes on her. She couldn’t let him see her fear, and alerting Christina could make things worse, so she forced herself to swallow down the fear and turned back to the younger man on the table.

“Here’s a sterile pack.” Christina said to Zora, oblivious to what was happening. “I couldn’t find any anesthetic.”

Zora was sure the man wouldn’t even notice the pain. “We’ll make do without.” She accepted the pack and placed it on the cart.

“Here’s a packet of latex gloves,” Christina said and handed it over to Zora as well.

Zora tore the packet, pulled on the gloves, and then opened the brown pack on the cart. The earlier she finished, the better for her and Christina.

But her pulse raced and her hands shook as she stared at the sterile medical instruments in the brown pack. Stitching animals differed from stitching a human, and she hadn’t studied the human anatomy yet; that would happen in medical school.

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