“Aye, thanks, doc.”
I turn to Ava, my heart still heavy with adrenaline and the weight of what we’d just gone through. “Just a few more minutes, baby.”
Ava bites her lip with a weak smile then doubles over with a sharp cry.
“Ava, what?”
She shifts in her seat and reaches between her legs. I gasp when her hand comes out, full of blood.
CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
Ava
Griffin goes insanelyferal seeing the blood on my fingers, next, we’re racing to the teaching hospital where Cormac started in August as a professor. He’s waiting at the school’s emergency entrance with a gurney surrounded by what looks like a team of students.
Great, on-the-job training. One of them helps me onto the gurney and they wheel me into a treatment room.
Griffin pulls Cormac aside. “She’s pregnant. But she’s bleeding.”
Medical students take over, and I’m subjected to all kinds of X-rays with a leaded apron that smells funny. Cormac confirms I have three broken ribs.
A woman comes in with more results. “She ruptured her spleen.” She shows Cormac the X-ray. “I think that’s where the blood is coming from.”
Cormac stands obscenely close to this student, who I notice isverypretty. Andveryyoung. When he catches me staring, I give him a little wink.
He smirks back.
“Cormac!” Griffin huffs, holding my hand, sounding frantic. “What...what do we do for that?”
“Surgery,” Cormac says, deadpan. “Scarlett, order a transport to Mercy. I’ll call a renal surgeon I know.”
Ooooo. Scarlett. That’sa sexy name. And right there, I see the energy between her and Cormac. But he’s her professor.
Hmmm.
“I haven’t been to a doctor yet.” I clear my throat. “For that.”
