Odin (Billionaire Titans Book 2) by Alison Ryan

Author:Alison Ryan [Ryan, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-26T21:00:00+00:00

15

Clara

The sight of Odin’s eyes stirred in me the feeling I experienced only when I won the daily battle all ER workers wage against the ever-present specter of death. I guess combat medics experience the same kind of thing, but for them it’s always adults. The most satisfying thing in my career was always saving the life of a child. All life is precious, obviously, and my Hippocratic Oath bound me to preserve all life, but the reward of rescuing a child from the clutches of oblivion always gave me a special satisfaction.

In many ways, Odin had been as helpless as a child these past few weeks, and it was through my diligence that he stayed fed, avoided infection, and got the exercise he did. I’d never been part of a patients’ long-term care before, so I didn’t know what to expect if and when he woke up, but the feeling was pure elation.

I removed the pillow from behind Odin’s shoulders and let his head fall back gently. His eyes remained open and alert, darting all around the room. They were dark and deep, suiting him perfectly.

Adjusting him so that he faced the chair to his right, I settled in with my feet tucked up under me. “Odin, I want to try something. I don’t believe you can move much of anything yet except your eyelids. If I’m right, blink once for yes and twice for no. Make the blinks long and slow, so I can distinguish them from regular blinks. Understand? Oops, sorry, that was two questions, don’t answer yet. Let’s start over. Do you understand the blinking? One means yes, two means no.”

Odin closed his eyes for several seconds and opened them again.

“Good! Are you in any pain? And I mean beyond the normal aches that would go along with spending several weeks lying in bed.”

Two blinks.

“Can you move anything on your own besides your eyelids?”

Rather than blinking, he lifted the index and middle fingers on his trembling right hand.

“Excellent! You’re probably wondering who I am, where you are, all sorts of stuff like that. Let me fill you in as best I can. You were driving with your brother and Piper. Oh, and Mallory. She’s not here now, I’ll let Atlas fill you in on that.”

I expected to see some sort of reaction in Odin’s eyes when I told him that his girlfriend wasn’t present for his awakening, but he remained completely placid.

“Anyway, a car pulled up next to you on Las Vegas Boulevard just before Sahara Avenue and you were shot. Nobody else in the car was hit. You were rushed to MULV, where I was the emergency room doctor who treated you. One of the bullets fractured your skull and bruised your brain, and you were put into a medically-induced coma while we drained fluid to reduce swelling.

“For safety reasons, Atlas had you moved to your safe house. He hired me to be your personal doctor through this process.

You were also shot twice through your left shoulder and upper chest.

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