Silhouette by Robin Hale

Author:Robin Hale [Hale, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medical, Romance
Published: 2018-10-22T23:00:00+00:00

THE TRIP into the bedroom was fraught with stumbling, cursing, bleeding, and more pauses than I would have expected, but we made it. I leaned my charge against the wall as I smoothed out the covers on her bed, making sure that we had a reasonably consistent surface to work on. I didn’t want something bunched beneath her if I had to place stitches, making things even less comfortable than they had to be. I also needed to fidget with something. I needed a minute to re-center myself in her space, to get my mind back in working order.

Her bedroom smelled so strongly of her that I could already feel heat building, low and insistent behind my navel. Just from the scent. Just from knowing that I was moments from laying her out on her bed and getting her out of those briefs…even if it was purely for her health.

“Okay,” I breathed and held my arm out again, providing a stable base for Lana to hop those last few feet from the doorway and lie down in the softness of her comforter.

“I’m going to take these off so I can get at the wound, but I’ll get a towel or something so you can cover up.” I turned from the bed immediately, not wanting to catch the glint in Lana’s eyes. Instead, I stalked off toward a narrow hall that I was sure would lead to a bathroom or a linen closet or something likely to have a stack of clean towels in it. I was not disappointed.

Walking back to that bed was almost worse than just staying there. I had a chance to see her staged like a painting, long pale limbs artfully arranged even with the pain she must have been in. Her hair was falling from its hasty bun to cascade around her shoulders, at odds with the careful way her hazel eyes tracked me. She was so…guileless, like that. Not innocent and trusting, never those, but not even remotely trying to hide what she was. She was a predator. That was the only way to describe it.

She tracked me like prey, like she could see the fluttering of my pulse in my throat, like she knew the way my legs quaked just slightly when I met her eyes.

“You know,” she drawled, mercifully dialing down the heat on that penetrating stare of hers. “I’d rather assumed ‘doctor’ was due to a PhD. Computer science or bio engineering or something.”

I approached, lifting the towel as an offering and laying it carefully over her hips and legs.

“Does this mean you’re an MD, or are we just playing doctor?” Lana’s tease was like a physical caress and I flushed beneath the words.

“There’s more than half an engineering degree in there, but I’m an MD.” The words came out clipped, colder than I had intended. I just needed to get through this without making a complete fool of myself. Lana’s health was the priority. Checking for infection, making sure her wound was properly closed — that was what mattered.

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