Dick Francis's Gamble by Felix Francis

Author:Felix Francis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2011-06-14T10:00:00+00:00

If the previous evening had been bad, the next twenty minutes were intolerable.

Dr. Tomic had left the door open, and every time someone walked down the corridor outside we both jumped.

What was there to say? Nothing. We both just watched the clock on the wall move inexorably around from eight-fifty to nine o’clock, then ever onwards to nine-five and nine-ten.

Claudia held on to my hand as if her life depended on it.

“It’ll be all right,” I said. “You heard what he said, you’ll be back in here before you know it.”

“Oh, Nick,” she said miserably, “if I come out of this with only a tiny piece of an ovary left, let’s use it to have kids.”

“OK,” I said. “You’re on.”

“Marry me first?” she asked.

“You bet,” I said.

It was an unusual proposal, but we were in an unusual situation.

At nine-fifteen an operating room orderly arrived, wearing blue scrubs and a cloth hat.

“Please be careful with my fiancée,” I said to him as he wheeled her bed out of the room and into the corridor. “She’s very precious to me.”

I went with her to the lift. However, the orderly said that he was sorry but I couldn’t come any farther. I looked at Claudia’s frightened face until the closing lift doors cut off our line of sight, and all too quickly she was gone.

I went back into her room and sat down on the chair.

Never before had I felt so desperate, so helpless, and alone.

In truth, it was not a great start to an engagement.

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