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“That’s not something you really get a choice on.”
“No,” I insisted. “You have to recuse yourself. It’s a conflict of interest. I was shot rescuing your sister.”
“Nurses don’t ‘recuse’ themselves. This isn’t a court of law, Brian. Those rules don’t apply in the medical field. And if they did, how would providing you with care after you saved my sister be a conflict of interest?”
I didn’t know, still…
“I don’t care.”
She put her hand on her hip.
“What is your problem?”
“You’re my problem. I don’t want you to be my nurse!”
“And I’m telling you; you don’t have a choice.”
“I just got shot in the line of duty. Chad isn’t going to tell me no.”
Chad was the CEO of the hospital.
“Brian O’Shaughnessy—you are the most infuriatingly, handsome patient I’ve ever had!”
Her eyes got big, and she quickly tried to correct herself.
“Annoying! Infuriatingly annoying!”
I felt a grin form.
“You think I’m handsome, Sunshine?”
I can work with this.
“No. I told you, I think you’re annoying!”
“But you said handsome first.”
She turned on the ball of her foot and headed toward the door.
“Where are you going?”
Looking back, she eyed me up and down in my hospital bed.
“To find you a new nurse.”
“But I don’t want one, now.”
“Too bad. I want a new patient.”
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Jade
Damn that man, and his chiseled jaw and dimpled cheeks. He had me all flustered like I was back in high school.
I was a professional, dammit. A grown-ass woman.
And to think, I’dvolunteeredto be his post-op nurse.
