Page 36 of Savage SEAL's Virgin
“That long?” I was feeling more than depressed about the amount of time he was talking about.
“Oh, you’ll be moving on your own in a couple of days,” he added. “But you’ll feel the weakness in your body for about a month.”
“Oh, that’s better.” I looked at Troy, who couldn’t stop smiling at me. “Why do you look like the cat who ate the canary?”
“I’m just so happy to be here with you. That’s all.” He kissed my forehead. “I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve seen you. Last night wasn’t enough.” He looked at the reverend. “Being that you’ve been around this hospital a lot, do you know when they’ll move her to a room where I can see her all the time?”
“After she can move on her own.”
I heard several men talking in the hallway, then they came into my room. Suddenly, it was filled up, and the three doctors who came in looked at Troy and the other two people. One of them said, “Mr. Masterson, you can go in to see the Snyder’s now. We’ve put them together. Mrs. Masterson told us she has her mother coming to take care of their daughter. You’ll be relieved of babysitting duty.”
Troy looked anything but happy about that. “Aw, I loved spending time with her.” He went to pick the girl up, and she handed him his phone, wrapped her arms around his neck, then gave him a kiss on the cheek, which I found absolutely adorable.
“I love spending time with you too, Mr. Troy. But can you take me to see my parents now?”
He nodded, then gave me a smile. “I’ll be back as soon as they let me, baby.”
With a quick glance at the doctors, I asked, “Can you please allow him to be here more? It would decrease my recovery time; I can promise you that.”
“We’ll talk about it, Miss Danner. For now, the rules stay in place. He can come in with the chaplain, but that’s it for now.”
“One more kiss, then, please.”
Troy came to me, leaning over and kissing my cheek. He whispered, “Talk them into it. I’ll be around the hospital anyway. I’ll check back around lunch to see what they’ve decided.”
My heart lurched as he walked away, and my heart monitor caught the action. The way it sped up had my doctors looking at each other, noticing the effect he had on me. Troy did too and smiled at them before he walked all the way out. “She loves me, guys. Think real hard about allowing me to spend more time with her. It could be critical to her recovery, after all.”
Pursing my lips, I sent him an air kiss before he turned to leave me. With a sigh, I started in on the doctors, “I want him here with me.”
“You have to understand,” one of them said. “This hospital has rules.”
“Move me, then. Get me out of ICU.” I was determined to find a way for him to be with me. “You have no idea how much I miss him already.”
“Maybe you have an unhealthy attachment to the man,” one of the doctors told me.
It pissed me off. “Look, I know none of you know a thing about me. I’ve never had a family. No one has ever loved me until Troy.”
One of them laid a hand on my shoulder. “Miss Danner, you met that man when you signed yourself up to be sold for the summer months. We are requiring you to see a psychiatrist before you’re released from the ICU. Your confession to never being loved just goes to prove how much you need intervention.”
“Intervention?” I was reeling from the way the men thought they could take me over. “I will gladly talk to anyone you want me to. But I want Troy too.”
“It would be best for you two to have a bit of distance for a while.” the doctor, who was pulling my hospital gown away from one side of me, said.
“I don’t want any distance between us. Ow!” He’d pulled the back of the gown and it pulled at my skin. “That hurts!”
He looked at the man who had the clipboard. “Tell the nurses to change the bandages this morning. Some have slipped off.”
“By the way, I remembered what happened to me. I thought you might want to know that.” I was rolled to one side as they examined my wounds.
“Okay, so you know about that. How do you feel about it?” one of them asked.
“How anyone would feel, I guess. Violated and hurt. But I’ll recover. It was me who put myself in that situation after all. I have no one to blame but myself for what happened to me.”
One of the men made a huffing sound, then said, “Your Dom was in charge. I know how this stuff works, and you’re taking the blame for no reason. I don’t care what you think. He was in charge.”
“I can be a force to be reckoned with,” I retaliated as I felt tugging at my back. “Ow! What are you guys doing back there?”
“Pulling off the bandages so they can be treated again and new ones can be put on,” one of them answered me. “Toby, put down for her to be given a sponge bath before re-bandaging. I don’t like the redness of some of those wounds. And up the antibiotics.”
