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I hadto pretend Penina wasn’t in the OR, even though she’d been standing next to me for three hours, following my instructions precisely. I had to fool myself into thinking it wasn’t her smell that I had to fight the urge to bathe in. At one point, I had to stand behind her to see what she was viewing. My dick accidentally brushed against her, and she tensed up.
“Relax, Dr. Ross,” I said. “You’re doing fine.”
It appeared as if no one in the room could detect what was happening between us. In my entire career, I’d never been so fucking distracted during surgery. That was it—Penina could never be in the OR with me again. And she had to stop pushing the matter and have some fucking mercy on me.
“Good job, Dr. Ross,” I said after she carefully removed the part of the tumor I’d directed her to extract. “Get settled at position three and watch for any possible surrounding nerve and tissue damage on the monitor.”
I could relax a bit as she gave me some space. I had done my surgical-instructor duty for the day. I would’ve asked Penina to get the hell out of my OR, but I wanted her to stay near. I had changed my mind about what I’d said to her the previous night. After the procedure, we needed to fuck first then talk about how to make our relationship work.
Knowing what I intended to do regarding Dr. Ross, I was able to ignore her enough to concentrate solely on beating the tumor in Leonard’s brain.
