Within My Heart
“He returned his focus to his patient, chiding himself for behaving like an overeager schoolboy. He could still feel her discerning blue eyes boring into him, and the already-tight quarters of the storeroom shrank by half.
Whatever this lady had against him was “dug in deep and hard, and showed no signs of budging,” as an old friend used to say. Remembering that friend now made Rand feel ages beyond his thirty-four years. Like he’d already lived a hundred lifetimes in the space of one.
Clearing ...his throat, he gathered his frayed thoughts and vowed to clear his mind, once and for all, of any interest pertaining to Mrs. Rachel Boyd.
“Mr. Mullins, if you’ll allow me to examine you once more . . .”
Ben lifted a hand. “Only if you’ll start calling me Ben. Seems you’ve earned that familiarity, Doc, at the very least.”
In medical school, Rand had been taught to keep a certain distance and formality between himself and his patients. But as with much of what he’d learned in those early days, he’d discovered not all of it worked in every circumstance, and certainly not out west.MoreLess
Whatever this lady had against him was “dug in deep and hard, and showed no signs of budging,” as an old friend used to say. Remembering that friend now made Rand feel ages beyond his thirty-four years. Like he’d already lived a hundred lifetimes in the space of one.
Clearing ...his throat, he gathered his frayed thoughts and vowed to clear his mind, once and for all, of any interest pertaining to Mrs. Rachel Boyd.
“Mr. Mullins, if you’ll allow me to examine you once more . . .”
Ben lifted a hand. “Only if you’ll start calling me Ben. Seems you’ve earned that familiarity, Doc, at the very least.”
In medical school, Rand had been taught to keep a certain distance and formality between himself and his patients. But as with much of what he’d learned in those early days, he’d discovered not all of it worked in every circumstance, and certainly not out west.MoreLess
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