Saturday Rescue for Hire 9 - Spencer's Reluctant Rescuer will be released at Siren Publishing. Spencer was a cop who was kidnapped by a drug dealer who took his eye. Here is a snippet of one of his doctor's appointment.
Four hours later,
Spencer was in a different part of the hospital listening to the doctor who had
operated on his eyes. His gaze shifted to the door of the room.
Ruger moved from
his usual position in the corner and leaned against the door with his muscled
arms crossed over his wide chest. The sneaky bastard.
The doctor
stopped talking and looked at Spencer with expectation. Spencer knew he should
say something. He had only one question, as his mind had pretty much shut down
after the first sentence the doctor had spoken.
“You want to
fill my eye with wax?” Spencer was sure he’d heard wrong. There was no way
anyone would do that.
“We would fill
your eye socket with wax, Mr. Ryland.” The doctor corrected. “That way we would
have a mold to create your ocular prosthesis.”
“You’re going to
fill my eye socket with wax?” Spencer’s voice had raised a few octaves by the
end of the sentence.
The doctor
shifted on his low, round stool. “There is very little discomfort. We find that
we mostly have to deal with the patient’s anxiety.”
“Ya think? You
want to fill my eye socket with wax,” Spencer snapped out. He looked over at
Ruger, wondering if he could trick the man into moving away from the door. If
the clenching jaw and the steely expression in Ruger’s dark eyes was any
indicator, that wasn’t happening.
“The hard part
is already over when we removed the damaged eye and put in the ocular implant,”
the doctor said. “You’ve been wearing that clear plastic shell in the socket
all this time, and things look good.”
“Ocular
implant?” This was new. Spencer couldn’t
tell anything was in there.
“It’s deeply embedded in the socket and will hold the prosthesis in
place,” the doctor informed Spencer.
Spencer tipped
his head to the side, considering everything he’d learned so far. “What’s the
new eye made of?”
“A hard plastic
acrylic,” the doctor answered.
“Will it look
real?” Spencer hated the pathetic way his voice sounded. The doctor was wrong.
The hardest part wasn’t surgery. The hardest part was coming to terms with
losing an eye.
Awww man I can't wait till this comes out....love those guys...
ReplyDeleteThank you Madeleine.
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