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She was silent as I walked into her room, setting her down carefully on her bed. She was also silent as I rummaged through her drawers and picked out clothes for her to wear. And she was even silent when I helped her get dressed.
Something wasverywrong.
I’d been discreet as possible as I helped her get changed, she used the bathroom and we got ready to go. She laid on her bed while I went and freshened up, and then I was back, ready to pick her up in my arms, but she protested again and I let her have the win.
I knew it was important for Summer to be independent, that much had been clear since I met her, so I wrapped an arm around her back and helped her to the car.
What we would find once we got there, I wasn’t sure. And that scared the fuck out of me.
Who does this asshole think he is?
After going into the emergency room at the very hospital and ER unit where Summer works, everyone was very quick to get her some help.
Which was fucking fabulous, except for the pompous, weasel of a doctor that seemed to have eyes for my girl. The man wasn’t shy about it either, but he was barking up the wrong tree, and stupid if he thought for one minute I was getting into a pissing match with him.
Sunshine was mine, and I would wait calmly —okay, maybe not so much, but I was trying—until she figured that out for herself.
This uppity, rich ass doctor was a damn sleazeball, but Summer seemed to have his number and despised his behavior. She wasn’t buying his bullshit for a minute.
Thatta girl.
So there we were in a room after the nurse had come in and taken her vitals and determined she was dehydrated. After the nurse left and had spoken with the doctor on staff that day, she’d come back and had gotten her started on IV fluids, taken a urine sample, and had someone else come in and take blood.
We were waiting for a physician to join us and give us the results, but not the dickweed of a doctor who’d come in trying to sweet talk Summer into allowing him to help take care of her for a few days until she felt better, and told me I should probably wait in the waiting room.
Yeah, don’t think so fuckwad. Not in this lifetime.
“It’s clear you're making the lady uncomfortable. I don’t give two shits if you're a doctor or not, go find another one, because it’s clear you're not in this room to help.”
My tone had given a clear indication that I wasn’t fucking around, and the asshole left, but not without a few more words with Summer that had me close to pounding the man into the floor.
I may have gotten rid of the dick, but Summer hadn’t looked happy with me. Her face spoke pissed-off-woman, plain and clear.
She’d still felt like shit but gained some of her sass back that she’d seemed to have lost this morning. I guess I brought the best out in her. And with that thought, I’d laughed to myself, which seemed to tick her off even further.
“How many times have I told you I can take care of myself, and don’t need you to fight my battles?” she said flippantly.
“Sunshine, the man’s a pig and you're sick. You expect me to just sit here and watch his shitshow and not say anything?” I raised my eyebrows as I waited for her response.
“I figured out a long time ago just what a prick Dr.IThink I’m God’s Gift To All Womenis, Gyth. I’m not stupid and I also have known for a long time about the infatuation he seems to have with me as well. I deal with it.”
Fuck no, just no.
“Summer, guys like him think they are entitled and things can get out of hand. And just what do you mean you deal with it?” A small inferno of pissed-off mad started to burble inside of me, waiting to burst out.
“You shouldn’t have to deal with anything at work, or anywhere else for that matter from any man, when it’s not something you want or reciprocate!” My voice went up a couple of octaves with my frustration, and it’s not what she needed right now.
“Look, I’m sorry I yelled or if I stepped on your toes, because they are damn cute toes.” That got a little tilt of her extremely kissable mouth. Lord knows I knew that now, and I was hooked.
“Let just—” My words died off as the door opened and a much older doctor walked in. He was a whole lot more professional than the last doctor, had a warm smile, and the second he started talking to Summer it was clear he was fond of her too. But in a fatherly way.
I liked him on the spot.
Dr. Hamilton had said hello to Summer and introduced himself to me. Before he said another word, he asked Summer if she wanted me to leave the room before he talked with her. The nurse had asked the same question and she’d said I could stay.
I’d held my breath waiting to see what she’d say to the doctor because I knew they probably had a lot of personal stuff to go over, and Summer had been keeping things bottled up and quiet from not just me, but from everyone, even her best friends.
When she’d told him I could stay, all the air I had been holding in had left in a swoosh, and my tense body relaxed a fraction knowing that maybe finally she was going to trust me to be there for her.
