SEAL Of Trust: An Mpreg Romance (SEALed With A Kiss Book 4) by Aiden Bates

Author:Aiden Bates [Bates, Aiden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-22T16:00:00+00:00

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Ben dug into the delicate tissue of the young man's shoulder. He couldn't see anything else about the patient, and that was probably for the best. He knew his patient was old enough to serve in the military or one of the militias. Maybe he served in one of the terror groups running around. He treated everyone, without reference to their history, but sometimes he did wonder.

And he shouldn't. He knew it. He was supposed to be above that kind of thing, or at least able to ignore it. Everyone deserved treatment, regardless of what they'd done outside of his OR. Even the jerk downstairs in the little Navy jail cell—brig—deserved treatment.

They hadn't come to Ben to ask him to treat the guy, though. Dave told him later on that it was a good thing. He couldn't go too far into who the guy was, but Ben trusted his lover when he said their prisoner was someone Ben would rather not come in contact with. Ben wasn't stupid. He knew the SEALs were here to track down White Dawn. He'd take their advice.

He shook himself out of his slight fog and forced himself to focus. Shoulder wounds were tricky. He needed to pay careful attention or else the patient would face permanent damage. The bullet had shattered on impact, sending fragments throughout the muscles and ligaments holding the shoulder together. Film showed arterial involvement too, as well as fractures to both the clavicle and the humerus. In short, the guy was a mess.

There was nothing to do but fix it, one step at a time. He carefully removed every bone and bullet fragment, and repaired the vessels behind them. He could see his patient had been fortunate in some ways. While several ligaments had tears in them, none of them had been severed. The artery, too, had been torn but not destroyed. The patient had lost a lot of blood, but he wouldn't lose the arm. Once the bones and ligaments healed, a long time from now especially for a guy not much younger than Ben, he could get back to doing whatever it was that he did.

Ben sent his patient off to recovery and went to scrub out. Shoulder Guy had been his last patient of the day. He changed into his clean clothes and headed out onto the ward. After a quick look around to make sure all of the patients were doing as well as could be expected, he took off.

Dave wasn't on the ship today, so Ben grabbed dinner with a handful of corpsmen. He missed his lover, but he certainly didn't mind hanging around with others in his profession. It astounded him that so many of these people had no formal training outside of the Navy and were so competent at their jobs. They were essentially physicians' assistants, although their jobs ranged even farther than the roles PAs played in civilian life.

One of them, Hobson, was just about to finish her last tour. She'd enjoyed being in the Navy, she said, but she wasn't getting any younger.

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