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She just stared

“That work for you?”

Still wondering what she had gotten herself into, but knowing she was on this roller-coaster ride, Natalie nodded

Matthew’s shter than the screen he’d just clicked on when he said, “It’s a date”

CHAPTER TWELVE

MOISTURE TRICKLED DOWN the back of Natalie’s neck and beneath her scrubs A surgical nurse kept the sweat froauze over it every so often Delaine Harris’s abdo operated on while still attached by the u incisions into her tiny body as they threaded the smallest possible arterial catheter into her heart

Via the catheter, Natalie and Matthew had repaired the blockage in the pul to breathe on her oould have prevented her body froenated blood

Everything connected with repairing the blockage had gone se ventricular defect with a patch Using the couidance and just as she’d practiced dozens of ti the abnor suture at a ti to suture the patch as well

As lance away froee of Delaine’s baby’s tiny heart

No e the words

Along with the obstetrician, a neonatologist, an anesthesiologist and a slew of nurses an

d surgical techs, Mattheas a valued ical team

Having hi

Which was a little scary

She didn’t want to get too dependent upon him She didn’t want to depend on anyone Hadn’t she learned her lesson over and over—that to depend on someone was to set oneself up for disappointment?