Chapter 7 #2
“It’s good. Really good.” Dad listened to her heart while Reagan checked on her wounds. “Her heart is beating a little faster than a human, which is what I expected. Her blood pressure is good, and she seems to have taken it well.” He looked at his brother.
“Her wounds are healing. Not as fast as I thought they would be, she’s also not bleeding as badly as she was when you first started.
I’d say in a couple of hours she’ll be healed completely.
” He was glad to hear that and licked the wound he’d just put in her belly.
“Aaron, she’s going to be just fine. Hopefully, she won’t be down any longer than a couple of days, then you two will be able to run together.
Even if she wakes up soon, I’d still wait a couple of days before she shifts.
She’s lost a great deal of blood, and her body will need to make more.
I’ll make sure to hook up extra fluids for her to take. I don’t want her to dehydrate.”
“Neither do I. Is she really all right?” Dad and Reagan both said that she was doing fine, and he said he was going to shift. “I’ll be back in a few minutes. Just make sure you keep an eye on her.”
“No worries there. We’ll both be here with her until you tell us you’re sure she’s going to be all right.
” Both of them hugged his cat, and he felt better.
Going to their bedroom, he shifted and pulled on comfy clothing so that he could be there when she woke.
He knew it wasn’t going to be today, but he wanted to be near when she needed him.
Aaron sat with Mac after she was cleaned up and had one of his shirts on.
Watching her rest, he was amazed at how much different she looked.
To him, she looked as if she glowed. Running his finger down her brow to her cheek, he marveled at the softness of her skin when he touched her.
She was beautiful, and her cat would be too. He just knew it.
“You’re going to hold over my head for the rest of your life that you were right about changing you, aren’t you, love?” He kissed the back of her hand and tucked it under the blanket. “I love you so much. I’m so glad that things turned out the way you said that they would.”
He held her throughout the night. She never stirred at all, but he held her all the same.
Talking to her made him feel better, so he told her things from his childhood and the way that he’d gotten to be an FBI agent.
Talking to her made him feel better, so he was glad that he’d been able to be so near her when she slept.
~*~
“Mac woke up about an hour ago. I was just there seeing if I could do anything, and their butler told me.” Reagan had to make arrangements to go to the house to check on her again if she was awake.
“I hope she’s going to be able to shift soon.
That’s all she’s talked about since I met her. I bet she’s a beautiful tiger.”
“You will be too.” She kissed him on the mouth, and he smiled at her. “Tomorrow night is the big night. Are you ready for it?”
They were having dinner at his parents’ house, and he was looking forward to it more than ever. Mac would attend, but she’d still be weak, and he would be happy to see her getting up and around. He knew that Aaron would be as well.
Aaron had been staying with Mac and not leaving to go to work. They would be happy to get him back to work, as he had been running the stationhouse since his boss had lost his job from not being able to lose the weight that he had to in order to meet the criteria for being an officer.
He weighed just over six hundred pounds at the time of his yearly physical, and no one knew how he’d gotten by with it for so long.
He didn’t just blow up to that weight overnight, and he would not lose the weight in a year that they gave him to lose it.
Aaron was doing a good job running the stationhouse, and he couldn’t have been prouder of him.
Reagan had plenty of things to do to keep him busy at work.
Dad had fully retired and was planning a trip with Mom soon.
All his patients were now his, and he was enjoying working with them.
He’d had no trouble getting them in his schedule and was happy that most of them seemed to be just as happy with him as they had been with his dad.
His parents were going to see Europe like they had on their honeymoon, and he was excited for them.
Reagan wasn’t excited about them being gone for a month, but with cell phones and technology nowadays, they could speak to each other every day and not miss a thing.
Plus, they were going to send pictures everywhere they went, and that would be just like being with them.
He was going to miss them both very much.
“I’ve never been on a cruise before.” He asked Blake if that was something that she’d want to do. “I would, I think. I don’t know if I’d get seasick or not, but I’m willing to try it. Besides, having a doctor as a husband should make it so I can get the best drugs when I’m aboard ship.”
“I’ll take very good care of you.” Blake had stopped by his clinic to bring him lunch, and they ate it in his office.
He’d hired two more nurses to help with the extra work and was pleased that things with them were working out, too.
Even his home was becoming more controlled now that he had a staff to help out around the house.
The cook was working out the best. She would have meals for them ready when they got home from work daily, and he loved that if he made a little mess anywhere, it was cleaned up before he came back home.
Even having someone make their beds was better than he’d thought.
Having a nice, neat bed to get into was the best thing ever, he thought.
Now if he could just get Blake in his bed, he’d feel much better than he had in days.
He was jerking off in the shower most every morning, and sometimes he’d take a shower so that he could be relaxed enough to go to sleep at night.
It was hard waiting for her to tell him when she was ready, but he’d wait a lifetime if that was what it took for her to come to him.
He would never force her to do anything that she didn’t want to do, and if that meant that he had to continue to pleasure himself, that’s what he’d do.
“Doctor Dredsen, you have a phone call on line three. It’s the hospital about one of your patients.
” He said he’d take it in his office, and he picked up the line while sitting at his desk.
Before he pushed the button for line three, he asked if he knew who it was.
“They said it was Mrs. Winters, but I can’t find anything on a file by that name. ”
“She’s not a patient of mine. I’ll take care of this, but in the future, tell them that she’s not mine and that I don’t know why she keeps calling here at the office. This is the fourth time that she’s tried telling people that I’m her doctor.”
“I’ll take care of it when they call again.” He knew that she would, too. His secretary for the office was a hard-nosed woman who ran a good office. She kept him in line as well. “I can take care of this call if you’d like for me to. I don’t like it when people play games with my office.”
“I’ll do it this time.” He pressed the button for line three and was asked if he could hold a moment. He knew that nurses were busy all the time and didn’t mind waiting for her to get back to him. But he would hold on for only so long, however, because he was busy too.
“Doctor R. Dresden?” He said that was him.
“I’m sorry to bother you at your office.
I just found out that she wants to talk to you, and that’s not going to happen.
I didn’t check first to see if she really was a patient of yours, so I’ll nip that in the bud right now.
She doesn’t have a phone in her room because she was making calls on her own that were not helping us with her care. ”
“I understand that. I’ve had dealings with the woman before.
” He could hear her tsking and had to hold back a laugh.
“I know that you guys are busy, but if you could, would you have her stop calling my office? She was calling my home for a while, and now that I’ve had my number changed there, she can’t reach me.
I’m not her doctor. I’m married to her sister, and I don’t think that would work out between us. ”
“She can be pretty insistent when she wants something, but I’ll see what I can do.
There are a number of nurses on this floor, so I can’t help if she gets to one who doesn’t know the rule.
I’ll spread it around as much as I can and also have a talk with Ms. Winters.
” He told her that he appreciated that. “Thank you for being so patient with us. We’ll get through this. ”
“Have you gotten her meds straightened out?” She said her previous doctor is managing her through the hospital, but he won’t take her on as a client in his office.
“I’m glad to hear that. I hope that he can make her understand that this is only temporary for her and that she’ll eventually have to find herself someone else. Just not me.”
For the rest of the day, he thought of nothing but Robin.
How she’d made Blake so miserable that he’d had to have their phone number changed on their cell phones because of her.
He just wanted her out of their lives so that they could get on with their own, but she was making it difficult.
Her depression was making Blake upset, and he didn’t like the way things were going.