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tablecloth of the Soho French restaurant. "Frankly, in a city like London, that barely counts as a decent living. And ye
pped to the scuffed medical watch on her left wrist, calculating how much longer she had to endure her eighteenth blind date.
for embarrassment, P
l provide. You'll do the cooking, keep yourself attractive, and make sure I'm not coming home to complaints. None of this
watch, then at her
e finding someone. You might want t
as she prepared a sharp reply. Before she could speak, the old-fashion
tinct. She grabbed her bag an
"And you don't want a wife, Preston. You want a housekeeper you can sleep with and
woman hastily covered a laugh with her nap
the exit without g
ered dessert!" Prest
ing through the packed evening commuters on the platform, she pulled out her phone to read the red alert flashing in the hospital group chat. A British Army convoy returning fro
ay to the hospital's rear staff entrance. She swiped her badge into the locker room, twisted her l
. The thick stench of blood and antiseptic hit her thr
ng gauze against a patient's chest, her reddish-brown curls sticking
open pneumothorax
sing down firmly to seal the sucking chest wound that was hissing with every breath. Hattie immediately spun around to prep the chest
the main automatic doors of the A&E bay flew open with a bang. Heavy co
rolley was a tall man in British Army combat fatigues. Under the cold white fluorescent lights, his sharp features looked carved from stone. The colonel's rank insignia glinted on hi
nt, hurried forward with a rar
Royal
le to everyone close enough to hear it. The bloodied officer standing in the middle of the A&E was not merely Col
himself at once. "Colonel Sinclai
shed greeting and the warning that stopped it. The registrar was
spleen," Cameron Sinclair said, his voice low and commanding. "
ad silenced half the ward. Even covered in blood, his orders were crisp, and as the orderlies wheeled the stretcher aost stared. The consultant usually expected people to scramble ou
l beyond his rank. That would explain it. She rarely followed royal news; the faces i
eron turned around. His gaze cut across the crowded
g left arm. Cameron narrowed his eyes slightly at the slender nurse standing str
field kit to treat Cameron's arm,
urses over there. This
wabs and gauze rolls from a nearby trolley, stepped over the debris on the floor, and marched straight up to the offic
ock," she said, her voice cool and hard. "Collapsing
yet held his arm like a vice. His hand hovered in mid-air before he droppe
s like this?" he asked, a faint trace
ng officer," Rosie replied without looking up a
worn medical watch on her left wrist. As soon as the knot was secure, Rosie let
tion. Rosie spun on her heel and ran toward the red doors. Standing alone in the bay, Cameron

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