The Greek Doctor's Rescue by Meredith Webber

Author:Meredith Webber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

IT WAS another hour before Nik was satisfied he’d done all he could for his patient. The still-comatose man was shifted into the living room, where Ellie, freed from the theatre earlier, had made up a bed for him and set up a barstool she’d nabbed from the dining room to act as a drip stand.

‘Right,’ she said to Paul, when with his and Len’s help they’d settled the man into bed. ‘It’s close to midnight, so we’ll go onto shorter shifts. You stay here.’

Nik, watching from the doorway, where he’d come to ask Ellie for help with the broken leg, stood quietly, hoping he’d hear the rest of her plans before she realised he was there.

He wasn’t disappointed.

‘Len,’ she continued, ‘you go to bed now, then take over from Paul at six. We have to do the town clinic, but we might be able to cut it short. As soon as we finish the fellow with the leg, I’ll take over from Jazzy at the hospital, she and the boss can have a sleep, then he and Jazzy can go to town late morning. Paul will be back up to take over from me at midday, then, if these two are OK, Lurie might sit with them in the afternoon and we’ll sort the rest out from there.’

She should be looking pleased with herself for marshalling her limited troops so efficiently, but he could see a frown pleating her eyebrows and almost see the waves of anxiety flowing from her body.

The anxiety and his own disquiet that she should be upset touched him simultaneously, and he spoke before remembering he’d been a silent observer.

‘Are you still worrying about that boy?’

‘Of course I am,’ she sighed. ‘It’s been over an hour and Carl and Ben aren’t back.’

He knew there was no way she’d accept a hollow reassurance, and a hug was hardly appropriate—or advisable—in these circumstances, so he shrugged and asked if she was ready to help him with a plaster.

‘The X-ray shows two breaks, tib and fib, low down,’ he told her when she followed him back into the makeshift operating theatre. ‘It’s the kind of break we’d plate and pin if we had the necessary equipment, but we should be able to make do with a plaster. I’ll start with a back slab, under his foot and up to just below the knee, hold it there with bandages, then X-ray again in a few days to see if the bones are aligned.’

She’d picked up the X-ray film from a small table by the wall, and held it in front of the lamp, seeing the injury for herself.

‘Will you do a full plaster later on?’

‘Probably,’ he told her, soaking the prepared bandages in a bucket of water preparatory to setting them in a curve under the young man’s foot and around the back of his injured leg.

Ellie set the X-ray down and came to help him, supporting the leg and patting the plaster into place as he applied it.

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