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More than two hours later, while struggling to get the aortic valve leaflets to precisely lie as they should, Natalie became more and more frustrated that she was under Mattheatchful eye, blaery

“May I?” he asked at one point, causing Natalie’s gaze to lift to his astute one

Seriously? What was she supposed to say? Although Dr Luiz’s official partial retirement date hadn’t yet arrived, Mattheas her boss

She watched with reluctant fascination as he made a deeper cut in a modified Ross procedure and then meticulously worked to repair the uncooperative valve leaflets

When he was done, the flaps fell into place perfectly between each beat

Ecstatic for her patient and what should be a great surgical outco a little over her excitement at what she’d just witnessed

How could she be annoyed with hienius?

If only she hadn’t had sex with him

When their tiny two-day-old patient was off to Recovery, Natalie was all too aware of Matthew beside her as she left the operating rooear

“Tell me why that worked so well, what it’s called, and if it’s so on for a while or just came up with”

Stripping off his protective gear, Matthew regarded her “You know the Ross procedure?”

“What you did was a ht that When you were finished, the valve leaflets fell perfectly”

“Only because you did a great job with the resection on the ventricle,” he praised, leaning against a long sink used for scrubbing “Otherwise, what I did wouldn’t have worked”

“You’ve done this before, then?”

“A few times”