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When their eye contact grew unbearable, she continued her exit and knew, with as much certainty as she knew her own name, that she and this man would cross paths again.
However, it wouldn’t be serendipitous. They wouldn’t run into each other at a coffee shop, accidentally get into the same cab, or unknowingly share an Uber. Lucas Saraci was going tohunt her down.
Six Months Later
Baltimore, MD
There was no scientific explanation for how these things happened. How someone could be minding his business, look up, lock eyes with a woman, and then become enchanted by said woman for an entire two-hour presentation.
After six months, Raina remained on his mind, strolling through his memories, leaving pieces of herself behind wherever she stepped. She was there whether he was teaching, working at the hospital, the clinic, or performing routine surgical procedures.
God, the woman was gorgeous, from top to bottom, and he loved her eyes past what was probably normal for someone he’d never held in his arms. Despite being closer to midnight than 11:59 pm, they were bright and expressive, full of the same passion he’d once possessed until it died at some repressed point in his adult life.
She’d assumed he was rolling his eyes. Instead, he’d had to remind himself to look away, to blink. He’d hung onto her every word, and the part of her presentation that stood out most was what led him to approach her.
We can’t think of people as mind and then body. People are mindandbody. Their experiences are encoded in their brains, their DNA. The person beside you, behind you, in front of you…they’re carrying decades of experiences that shape who they are, but not only on the outside. Those experiences also may control what genes their bodies express.
When my mother was inside my grandmother’s body, she already had my egg in her ovaries. That means my grandmother’s life impacts me across the spectrum, from biology to what her social environment was like during those earlier phases of her life.
You’ve probably heard that we’re more than our accomplishments, but according to my institute’s research, we’re more than even the years we’ve walked this earth. So when someone rises above adversity, it’s not only rising above what they can see. They are, in fact, fighting a battle many times two generations in the making.
By the time she was done, he was bewitched.
As much as he’d told himself not to look for her, to let what happened between them remain in the past, this latest twist of fate couldn’t be blamed on him.
Delilah Daniels - 1st Year Menace
Dr. S, I need your help with something.
Dr. Lucas Saraci MD
Ugh.
Texts.
Delilah Daniels - 1st Year Menace
Admit it. You like me.
Dr. Lucas Saraci MD
I’ll admit nothing.
What do you need?
When he first decided he wanted to teach at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, he’d been less than enthused about having to teach first-year medical students with their weird combination of low self-esteem and overconfidence. But it had been a sort of hazing ritual. It didn’t matter what the doctor specialized in; every new instructor had to bear, the terror of the first year.
However, he found that heenjoyedteaching them, primarily because it was where he found the brightest minds, their brains ripe for shaping and him, the cerebral clay artist.
Regardless, nearly every day, he’d continued to wonder whether he’d gone mad. He repaired spinal fluid leaks, reconstructed jaws and facial bones, and performed minimally invasive surgeries to help treat head and neck cancer.Nearly every day,he’d worried whether his talents were being wasted on fresh blood.
Until now.
Until Delilah Daniels, one of his all-time favorite students, changed the trajectory of his entire day with a single text message.
Delilah Daniels - 1st Year Menace
Now that I think about it, my sister’s here. She dropped in for a surprise visit. She might be able to help me out instead. She’s got a biochem background.
