Best Friend’s Brothers by Natasha L. Black EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Natasha L. Black
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JULIE
“They’re almost here,
” my floor supervisor announced,
“four firefighters with bad enough smoke inhalation
that they’re in an ambulance. I paged the pulmonologist on
call and two respiratory therapists are on their way down
here to help. I want Marks, Romero, Cooper, and Hayes on
triage, cubicles 31-34, now.”
Hearing my name, I sprang into action. I knew working
the ER at Mount Sinai would be fast paced, but it was what I
always wanted to do. To help where there was the most need,
and use my strengths—calm in a crisis, independent and
resourceful—to do the most good. A lot of nights, nerves of
steel, nightmares from some of the things I’d seen, but I was
where I belonged.
Still muffled in their gear and oxygen masks over their
faces, the EMTs wheeled in the firefighters, and I was ready
with the first cubicle. They offloaded the first patient and
made way for me. I slid back the curtain and started checking
his vitals, tapping notes into the tablet as I did. When I shone
my penlight to check his pupils, I saw the sea-blue eyes I’d
know anywhere.
“Jesus Christ, Rory?” I said in a whisper. He blinked in
recognition, trying to speak but instead choked and coughed.
“Lie still,
” I ordered, heart pounding in a way it never did
at work.
Historically in the face of illness and injury, I was rocksteady. Except for the fact that this was Rory Beckett, my
best friend Kendall’s older brother. I have should
immediately let my charge nurse know so she could reassign
me and send in someone objective. But he had smoke
inhalation and every minute counted in his treatment.
Nothing could happen to Rory, not on my watch. I felt the
rush of adrenaline in my veins, the determination that I
would be the one to take care of him and make things right.
Once I was satisfied that his pulse was even, I elevated the
head of the gurney so he could sit up. “I’m going to take off
your shirt and put these electrode sensors on you so I can
monitor your heart rate. It’s more accurate than the one on
the pulse oximeter we put on your finger. I still need that for
your oxygen saturation though, so quit trying to take it off.”
I tried to keep it clinical, but I was flustered. I parted the
buckles on his heavy fireman’s jacket and then realized he
had on an FD t-shirt. I couldn’t unbutton it to get to his
chest and he wasn’t in any condition to sit up and be
stripped of his coat and have the shirt yanked over his head.
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