Out of the Flames_Firemen Do It Better by Leah Sharelle

Author:Leah Sharelle [Sharelle, Leah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-19T18:30:00+00:00

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I stood off to the side of Tate’s bed in the ICU. The only noises were the beeps coming from the machines attached to Tate and the low murmurs of the doctor talking to the nurse.

My gaze was riveted on what the doctor was doing to my wife, watching intently for any movement behind her closed eyelids as he poked and prodded at her. My jaw ticked, and my teeth ground tightly seeing another man’s hands on her. No matter the reason, I didn’t like it.

The same procedure had happened every two hours for the last three days, and each time, I wanted to rip his head off and shit down his neck. The only thing that stopped me was the beautiful unconscious woman who was laying in the bed and the fact that two hours ago when the doctor pushed on her belly to test if a blood clot was forming under her stitches, she moaned.

It was the smallest of noises but music to my ears. For three days, since I walked into the ICU and saw the mess the truck colliding with Tate’s Mustang had done to her, I had been in limbo.

I hadn’t left her except to use the toilet. Lake brought me food and coffee so I didn’t have to go out of the room. Though, with the last delivery of sustenance from Lake, she informed me I was ‘a bit whiffy’—her word, not mine.

The nurses took pity on me and gave me a bowl of hot water and some soap so I could do a bedside wash, to which I was very grateful. They knew that getting me to go home was not happening, so now I had a sponge bath when Tate did after the nurses let me take over that task. I think they just got sick of my growling and my teeth grinding while I watched them with a critical eye. She had so much dried blood in her hair that they just left it in there. Tate would not be amused when she woke, and I told them a much.

So the job got handed over, which pleased me. Finally, I could do something useful other than watching Tate and willing her to wake up. I was still reeling from the news of our lost baby, not sure how to deal with it. Fuck, I had no idea how I was going to break it to Tate, and to be honest, I toyed with the notion of not telling her at all. Not for my sake or to get out of telling her, but only so I didn’t have to break her heart.

The news will break her and the thought of how badly scared the shit out of me. My mind was driving me goddamned crazy just thinking about it, but not as much as wondering how long it was going to take before she finally came back to me.

The doctor in charge of her explained it was the natural process of the body to go into a semi-shutdown state in a sort of protective mode.

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