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“Why not?”
“No insurance. Anyway, my dad’s not gonna pay for me to go to the doctor.”
“I... I can help,” she said.
She could only hope that her dad was still at home.
He had a call to go out on later, but there was a chance he hadn’t left yet.
“Can you stand up?”
“I can try.”
She found herself taking hold of his hand, which was big and rough and masculine in comparison to hers.
Like he was a different thing altogether.
She’d seen the boys on the ranch from a distance before, but she’d never met one of them.
He might even be aman, he was so tall already.
He made her feel very small. Suddenly, her heart gave a great jump, like she’d been frightened. He made her feel like a rabbit, standing in front of a fox, and she couldn’t say why.
But he wasn’t a fox. And she wasn’t a rabbit.
He was just a boy who needed help.
“Lean on me,” she said.
He looked down at her. “I don’t want to hurt you. You’re a tiny little thing.”
“I’m sturdy,” she said. “Come on.”
“All right.”
He put his arm around her, and the two of them walked back to the house. Her father was gone. But his bag was still there.
“I’ve watched my dad do this a lot of times. I think I can do it.”
“Your dad’s a doctor?”
The best thing would be to lie. It was to make him feel better, not for nefarious reasons. It wasn’treallya lie. But of course what this boy meant was a doctor for humans...and she was going to let him believe it.
“Yes. I’ve been on lots of calls with him. I can do this.”
“Good.”
She found a topical numbing cream in the bag and gingerly applied it around the wound on his forehead.
His breath hissed through his teeth.
She waited a few minutes before taking out a needle and thread. Beads of sweat formed on his forehead, his teeth gritted.
But when she finished, he looked up at her and smiled.
“Thanks, Doc.”
SHELOOKEDDOWNat the stitches she was giving now.
