Three Brothers Lodge - The Complete Series Box Set by Fenris Morris

Author:Fenris, Morris [Fenris, Morris]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Changing Culture Publications
Published: 2017-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Vail Hospital facility, Monday afternoon…

Gracie gave the orthopedic surgeon a small smile as he left the exam room, and then she leaned her head back against the gurney and closed her eyes. Guess you’re going to get a chance to see what being a patient is like, up close and personal.

She’d been right in her initial assessment that she’d done a number on her ACL- her anterior cruciate ligament. Just a little piece of fibrous tissue, but one that performed the job of connecting the major bones in her leg together. She hadn’t torn it completely apart, but the tear was significant enough that without surgical intervention, it most likely would never heal properly.

Dr. Geske was a very well-known orthopedist who just happened to be available to immediately perform the surgery. Since she’d not eaten anything for breakfast due to some nausea, and her head CT had come back clean, she was good to be put under anesthesia right away.

Mason stuck his head around the exam curtain and moments later asked “Hey! Can I come in?”

Gracie scooted herself back up on the bed, her leg completely immobilized by the leg brace a nurse had applied to it upon her arrival. She smiled and waved him forward, “Sure, come on in.”

“So I passed Dr. Geske in the hallway, and he said you’re headed up to surgery in a few minutes?”

“Yeah.” Gracie cleared her throat, and then nodded her head, “The ACL is torn pretty badly. But the good news is that Dr. Geske is here and can fix it today. I’ll be in a leg brace for six weeks or so, which will make getting around in the snow interesting, but after that and some therapy, I should be good as new.”

“That is good news. Not the surgery or the rehab part, but I’m glad Stan’s here to fix things up.”

“Stan?” Gracie asked.

“Dr. Geske. He’s been courting Sarah for the last several months, but she’s pretty adamant about not giving up her place in Silver Springs, and he can’t really move too far away from the hospital.”

“Do they…”

“Love each other?” When she nodded, he grinned, “Yeah. But Sarah has some misguided notion that if she leaves town, no one will take over the motel and travelers and visitors alike won’t have any place to stay. Not everyone wants to drive up the mountain for a night’s stay.”

Gracie’s brain took off running. Becca would be perfect taking over for Sarah!

Gracie knew that moving to a small town would be a perfect place for her damaged friend to heal, and Becca knew firsthand how to run a hospitality business. She’d grown up on the Big Island of Hawaii, her parents owning and operating a tourist resort there. Gracie had never understood why a beach girl would leave and move to the mountains of Colorado, and Becca had never gone back home to her knowledge. At least, not in the last four years they’d known one another.

“Hey, where’d you go?” Mason asked, reaching over and clasping her cold hand in his big warm ones.

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