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He was a mess but for some odd reason. I didn't mind it at all. As I returned to my office, I sank into my chair and let out an exhausted sigh. It was just eleven am, and I was already spent. Maybe if I believed the rumors and came here with that mindset, I wouldn't have taken on the role of his assistant. I was still a gynecologist, but he paid me separately for assisting with his activities.
"Good morning, Dr. Roberts," a blonde man in his late thirties greeted me.
He was Dr. William Johnson, a pediatrician, who had worked with Ethan for almost five years. Although he was just thirty-eight, everyone seemed to treat him like a father figure in the hospital, Ethan and me included. He had a tattoo on his neck and his left arm; there were still signs of a piercing on his left ear. He must have been the wild party type in his younger years.
Still single, though. If the nurses in the hospital weren't swooning for Ethan, they were swooning for Dr. Johnson.
"Dr. Johnson, good morning to you too," I greeted. "Did you need me for something?"
"Something like that. I need Ethan, but if I told him he'd just forget again, it's better if I just pass through someone who won't let him forget," he explained.
I groaned and placed my head on the table. "Oh, come on."
"That and there's a mother of one of my patients who needs your attention. Cervical cancer signs apparently," he added. "Why the groaning?"
"I'm a gynecologist first. I'm technically not even Ethan's secretary or assistant," I replied.
"I think you're the only one who believes that," he shrugged. "It's been a month, and the rest of us have already accepted that it's your role. So, there's nothing much you can do."
He was right. I had been there a month and Ethan casually started asking people to meet me if they needed to reach him. It was stressful at first, but it was his way of helping me learn. I had started to understand how to delegate, manage time and effectively run a hospital–all things I wanted to apply to my parent's hospital.
I hadn't told him the main reason I wanted to learn with him was to help me restructure things back home. In a way, it wasn't all that bad. Everyone in the hospital started seeing me as his assistant, giving a kind of power over them. If I gave an instruction, they treated it like it was Ethan's.
"You're right," I sighed. "What do you want him to know?"
"Well he mentioned at a meeting a few months ago about his plan to have a nurse exchange program," he replied. "So we select five of our nurses and get them to switch places with nurses from other hospitals. That way our nurses get to learn how to work in different spaces, and the nurses that come in get to experience how it is to work in a billion-dollar hospital."
"Ethan came up with this?" I raised a brow.
"He may be careless, but he's a very intelligent and shrewd man," he replied.
I thought about it for a moment and shook my head. "I'm having trouble believing that."
"I think I understand why you think that," he sighed. "He's beenfreerwith you. If he's with the rest of us, he becomes overly cautious to not slip up or let his clumsiness affect us. In essence, he acts like he's around his family when he's with you. His brothers don't see him as bright, either. But he has a lot of strengths."
I don't know why, but when he explained that. I felt…special? Special to Ethan.
Stop overthinking it. Focus.
"Oh well, the idea is good," I shrugged. "I'll give it to him this time."
"Right, we all think it is. Just help us remind him and if possible monitor him to make sure he doesn't make any mistakes," he advised and turned to leave. "Also, I heard about the sixty bed delivery."
"So fast?"
"Well, it wasn't that difficult to hear, or see," he said, pointing outside the window. "The truck that delivered them is still here."
"Could you please help me find hospitals, clinics, or medical centers that might need them?" I requested.
"I'll look around and ask the others too," he replied. "You're getting good at this job, Assistant."
"Shoo!" I motioned for him to leave.
"I'm going," he scoffed and closed the door behind him.
It was a good idea. I thought about getting a nurse from the hospital back at Glen Allen to work at Ethan's place, while the nurse here goes to work there and advises Dad how to make the place better.
"Will Dad listen, though?" I sighed as I thought about it.
