Saving Sorell by Kiki Burrelli

Author:Kiki Burrelli
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Kindle Unlimited
Published: 2016-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Felix felt the ball in his stomach constrict until it felt like lead. His forehead felt too hot and sweaty just from thinking about telling Sorell what had happened to him. He'd hinted to people who needed to know, his supervisor at DBB, his mother, but he'd never told anyone the entire event. He would now. His Sorell deserved that much.

"I'd been working out of the country almost since the moment I finished my residency. I always knew that I wanted to help people on the fringe, people who wouldn't normally have help."

"People like us," Sorell said with a smile.

Felix had never thought about his role as pack doctor like that before. He supposed it was similar to the work he did in underdeveloped countries. Finn would have had a hard time finding a doctor that felt comfortable performing his C-section. Felix was only glad that he had been around to do it when he was.

"Sort of. I would be sent into an area and tasked with locating where there was the most need. Generally, that meant following outbreaks into fringe villages when they occurred, but sometimes it also meant going to very remote and difficult locations. I eventually found myself in Mongu, a small village in Zambia and was the lead doctor for that region. Things were primitive there and many of the villagers had never been to a doctor of Western medicine in their entire lives." Felix inhaled his last gulp of clean air. In moments, that air would be tainted with his past. "I was friends with everyone there but there was one family that reminded me very much of the one I'd left behind. A boy lived with his mother and his baby sister. He worked so hard every day, packing water for his family, working for his family. He was young, much too young to have so much responsibility, but he never complained. In fact, he seemed to enjoy it. He liked taking care of them."

"What was his name?" Sorell asked.

"Kofi and his sister, Kacee. Their mother was Daia." Felix could see them now as he tried to remember them, smiling in their doorway. He'd stopped talking, getting so lost in his head, but Sorell didn't fidget or make a noise for him to continue. He simply remained by his side and waited for Felix to come to terms with what he was doing.

"There was a rebel faction posted in the jungle, guerrilla fighters who made commuting a little difficult but for the most part stayed out of the poor village. That was until they started recruiting. It happened one day that a young man had just disappeared and then word finally got around that he had joined the guerrilla army. They became bolder, sending in people to persuade more of the young men in the village. If they were old enough to hold a gun, they were old enough to join. Kofi and his mother came to me one day, worried that they would come to him, that they would be angry if he refused.

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