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CHAPTER 1
AUTUMN
The fuck is going on here?
I gape as I step through the Eious hospital in Nashville This is far fro I thought of was beauty and grace There was going to be order, structure, and the best times of my life, but this … no This is far from it
It’s chaos It’s like a scene from the worst kind of horror movie
People are rushing around while nurses are calling out A heavily pregnant woman wails in pain as bodies sprawl on the dirty floor I’ve never seen anything like it Don’t getin this ER than any other hospital I’ve worked in, there’s just that many patients today
I should have seen this coht in the stor off the road to avoid roadkill, I should have known that today was going to hold a few s are never that easy There’s always a hidden surprise lurking beneath the surface
This hospital has the best reputation in the state, and I’et to work here under some of the best doctors in the country I’in here, but whatever it is, I’ to do with me I take my hat off to the nurses and doctors ork in the ER It’s hard work, but da
The auto storit seenant wole her husband She’s waiting in a long line, and it’s clear that she hasn’t been seen yet, but judging by the agony on her face and the frustration on the man’s, I’d dare say that today’s visit is a little ular check-up
I start
Today is the first day offor the past five years, having to coet the experience needed to finally get et to this point Though this point is going to takeAfter that, I’ll be a fully qualified midwife, and all my hard ill have paid off
I twist and wind through thefro to be seen I should probably sign in with my supervisor first and properly introduce myself, but with the state of this ER, and the stress written all over the attending nurses’ faces, it’s all hands on deck, even if they don’t knoho I am yet
I reach the pregnant wo her attention “Excuse me, ma’am, have you been seen? Are you in labor?”
“Oh, thank God,” she groans low “We only just walked through the door and—AHHHHH HOLY SHIT, ASHER Why did you do this to me?”
Her husband cringes and slips his arive her ashe could take her pain away I quickly glance his way and aelic face I stare for athat his wife is in the worst pain of her life I resist the urge to give her a high five for a job well done I don’t knohere she ht Guys like that just don’t exist in my world But then, she’s also just as beautiful They’re like the perfect cover model couple
I put it to the back of my mind There’s a time and place for all of that and now is definitely not it I can only ithat I was too preoccupied gaping at the patient’s delicious husband to take care of her
This moment could define it all I need to make an impression and I need to make it stick There are so many other nurses in this place, but when a doctor needs one at their side, I want my name to be the one they think of
I’ the woon in here? My wife is in pain We’ve been waiting here for twenty minutes, and no one has even bother—”