His eyes half closed from tiredness and the drugs he had been given, Nathan lay back on the bed and ignored the doctor as best he could. He had no desire to watch as his arm was stitched up. One look at the deep cut when the jacket he had been using as a makeshift bandage was removed was enough to turn his stomach. He didn’t want to tempt fate and lose control, and his last meal.
He was still determinedly looking the other way when out the corner of his eye he saw the curtain surrounding the emergency room cubicle he was in twitch aside. When he turned his head to see who had arrived, he found that it was Nurse Campbell from the ITU. Her appearance was not a coincidence, he was sure of that, and his heart thumped loudly as his mind leapt to all kinds of conclusions.
“I was told you were
