by Ann, Natalie
Fierce-Wyatt
Natalie Ann
Copyright 2020 Natalie Ann
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Contents
Author’s Note
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Blurb
Prologue
1. Feel The Heat
2. Live And Learn
3. Just As Bad
4. Embrace Them
5. Answer For It
6. Some Misunderstanding
7. Celebrity Status
8. Always Had Me
9. Single One
10. Cold And Lonely
11. Who I Am
12. Competitive One
13. Energy To Burn
14. More Gossip
15. Always Talk
16. Bold Surroundings
17. Probably Smart
18. When You Know
19. His Family Knew
20. Afraid To Admit
21. Weighing My Options
22. Jump Her
23. Worth the Wait
24. Held Out
25. After This Weekend
26. Worked for Him
27. Pushing Her Limits
28. Sharing Something
29. Watching Her Squirm
30. A First
31. Do No Wrong
32. Happening Anyway
33. Deeper Connection
34. Dial It Back
35. Wouldn’t Dare
36. Haze of Fury
37. Let Yourself Fall
38. The Most Important Thing
Epilogue
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Author’s Note
Author’s Note
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Blurb
Dr. Wyatt Fierce has one of the more stressful and nerve-wracking careers in the medical profession. He takes that job seriously, but that’s all he takes seriously in life. Out for fun...that’s his motto. Looking to settle down like his parents want? Someday...if he could only find the person who understands him the best.
Adriana Lopez doesn’t mess around. She’s serious. She’s upfront and in your face. And the last thing she has time for is anyone who isn’t like her. Why? Because the one time she tried to let her guard down and fell in love it was with the wrong man...making her look like a fool. Love and relationships have no part in her life now. Not even dating. She’s in a new town and is going to make a fresh start. Simple as that. Except she knows nothing is ever simple in life.
Prologue
Wyatt Fierce took a seat, ready to listen to Dr. Raymond talk about the field of study he’d been wanting to do for years.
He was made for this, even if others thought he was nuts.
He didn’t care. It was his life, his career, and he was going to prove them all wrong.
He leaned over and grinned at the resident that sat two seats down from him. Monique and he had a few drinks at the bar last night before both going on their way. She was here just like him, but she was tapping her feet almost shaking his own chair.
Nerves? Yep, pretty obvious on Monique. Not him.
Steel rods, that was what his nerves were made of.
“Look around this room,” Dr. Raymond said. Wyatt did what he was told, nodding to a few other residents he’d seen in the halls in the past few years. “Some of you are going to make it; most of you won’t.”
Wyatt had known that coming in. He wasn’t worried.
“I don’t mean make it as a doctor,” Dr. Raymond said. “You might end up in primary care, you might end up riding a desk, or even working in a morgue, but not all of you are going to be an anesthesiologist.”
Wyatt had been hearing this from people for years. He knew the stats and he didn’t care. He was going to be one in this room that made it and didn’t care if the rest failed.
Fierces didn’t fail and he wouldn’t be the first.
He sat back in the chair to get comfortable, his long legs stretched out in front of him, his arms crossed in front of his chest. Might as well relax because that was how he felt when others were sweating around him.
Normally he couldn’t sit still. He was always running, always finding things to do.
Not when it came to this though. Sit in place and listen. He’d get an A every single time.
Dr. Raymond was walking about the room now, looking at each and every one of them, stopping to stare, probably to intimidate. Wyatt didn’t care. He had this covered.
“Dr. Fierce,” Dr. Raymond said. He hadn’t realized the guy knew his name, but of course he could have read it on the lab coat.
“That’s me,” he said.
“With a name like that, I’m sure you’re pretty cocky and full of yourself.”
Wyatt grinned when others in the room snickered. “I like to think of it as confidence.”
“Same thing if it’s not controlled,” Dr. Raymond said. “I know all about you.”
Shit. What did that mean? In the hospital he gave it everything he had. He followed the rules and he did his job. He stayed late and he worked hard.
But outside of the hospital—when it was playtime—he played just as hard. Call it an outlet, he wasn’t sure, but he’d never been serious about anything in life, or so most said.
He was the joker of the family. The one always out to get a laugh.
The one always being a wiseass.
But when it came time to buckle down he had the straps in his hands and was ready to settle in.
“And what is that, Dr. Raymond?”
The pacing around the room started again while Dr. Raymond made him wait. If the doctor thought he’d see Wyatt sweat, he wasn’t going to.
“I think you know what I’m talking about. There are eyes everywhere. You’re always watched in and out of the hospital.”
“Understood,” he said.
“Do you know why this discipline of medicine is so hard?” he asked, looking around the room.
“Because it pays the most,” someone said. Wyatt almost said that but knew enough to keep his mouth shut since all eyes were on him. Not the time to be a smartass, he knew.
“That’s why so many want to do it,” Dr. Raymond said. “But they fail because the money is just a little bit of consolation for the stress and pressure of what you do every day in your job. You are responsible for your patients undergoing surgery safely and comfortably. You put them to sleep. And you wake them up. Or you better damn well make sure you do.”
Textbook explanation that everyone knew.
Wyatt shifted in the chair a bit. “Dr. Fierce, do you think you have the ability to take this seriously?”
“Dead serious,” he said, getting a little sick of the attention on him. Which was funny since he normally loved attention.
“And that is what your patient is going to be if you don’t. Dead.” The silence that greeted him with that statement was almost as bad as the last nail going into a coffin. “If you can’t take it. If anyone can’t, then there is the door. I’m going to get myself a coffee and if there are fewer of you in the room when I come back, then so be it.”
Dr. Raymond left and Wyatt watched as a few let out a breath. Monique from last night stood up. “What are you doing?” he asked her.
“I can’t do this,” she said.
“What? It’s just a speech. You don’t know until you at least try it,” he argued when two more people stood up. What the hell?
“Yep,” someone else said. “And I’m sweating and shaking listening to him talk. If I’m doing it now with words, I won’t be able to handle it in the OR. There are plenty of fields for me to go in and this one isn’t going to be it,” said the guy who’d earlier stated it was for the money.
Wyatt sat there while those three left. There were only five in the room now.
When Dr. Raymond came back, he was carrying a tray with four cups. “Wow. There is one extra than I anticipated to be here. Does someone want to volunteer to go get the fifth cup?”
Wyatt wasn’t leaving his seat. A guy behind him said, “I’ll do it.”
When he was out of the room, Dr. Raymond said, “And he won’t make it either.”
“Why?” someone else asked.
“Dr. Fierce, do you know why?”
“Because you never leave the room until everything is completed and everyone is safe. We’re all safe, but you haven’t finished.”
“Correct,” Dr. Raymond said. “Maybe I’m wrong about you, but we’ll see. I’m usually never wrong.”
1
Feel The Heat
Seven years later
“I’m Dr. Fierce, your anesthesiologist for your surgery today,” Wyatt said, moving behind the curtain for his next patient while he waited for the OR to open up. Shouldn’t be much longer. “Can you state your name and the reason you are here? I’m sure you know the routine,” he said to the woman with a big smile. She was a cancer patient coming back in for another surgery after her scan showed a spot of concern. This one on her kidney.
“Ashley Brookshire. And another Dr. Fierce is going to go in and remove some tissue from my kidney that with any luck is just some fat and not cancer.”
“That is exactly what we are all hoping for,” he said, rubbing his hand on her foot.
Most of the patients coming in for surgery were scared. They were stressed. They were emotional.
It was his job to not only make sure it was a safe and painless procedure but also to try to calm them. No doctor wanted a hysterical patient on their table.
Of course that was why there were such things as “happy” juice to calm a patient down. But if he didn’t need to do it, he wouldn’t.
Ashley seemed pretty darn calm to him.
“The other Dr. Fierce—a brother by any chance?” she asked.
“Cousin,” he said of his cousin Sam that was the surgeon performing the procedure. He was in another OR right now, just finishing up. When the room was ready, Ashley was the next patient.
“So, good genes in your family,” she said, wiggling her eyebrows. He turned when the curtain opened and saw a man walk in. “Steven, this is Dr. Fierce. Dr. Fierce, my surgeon’s cousin. Wow, it might get confusing in here.”
Wyatt laughed. “It can when we have our masks on. Don’t worry, we don’t often switch positions in the OR. I’m the one who likes to put people to sleep. Guess I’m just boring that way.”
Ashley laughed. “Something tells me you aren’t very boring. But anyway. Here we are. Waiting to find out the results. My oncologist told me since the last tumor that was removed was contained and small that I will only need radiation on my thyroid. I can handle that. Not a problem.”
“Sounds like you’ve got a great attitude.”
“Yeah,” she said. “Thyroid cancer is easily treated, but that stupid CAT scan showed something on my kidney. My other surgeon couldn’t remove it and referred me to Dr. Fierce. Your cousin. Yeah, this is confusing.”
He laughed. He was used to it. “I get it. Sam—we’ll call him that, he’s good with it, even with his patients at times—is the best there is. You’re in great hands.”
“Good to know,” Steven said. “He told us that it could be nothing, but you won’t know until you biopsy it. Just wish she could be awake for it. I hate when she has to go under.”
Wyatt flipped through her history on his computer. He already knew she’d had a few surgeries in her past. “You seem like a pro to me when it comes to being operated on.”
“I don’t know about that. No one wants to be a pro at this, but I’m kind of a klutz. Or I was in school. I seemed to get injured in every sport or activity I did.”
“Which is
why she doesn’t do much of those things anymore,” Steven said. “When we were younger it was fine. We’re too old for it now.”
“Now I’m also having surgery for carpal tunnel. I’m only thirty-eight. Come on,” she said, letting out a huff.
“Society spends a lot of time on computers now,” Wyatt said, holding his laptop up. He hated every minute of it too and wished more people were interested in getting out and doing rather than watching. “While we wait for the room to be open, I’ll tell you I’m a proponent of KIS when it comes to surgery.”
“You want a kiss?” she asked. “That’s getting a little personal, but if Steven looks away, I’ll give you one on the cheek.”
“Now I know why you are so laid back.”
If only everyone was like this, but Wyatt knew that wasn’t life. He’d had plenty that he walked in and saw them in tears and it just killed him. The first time that happened he threw all the things he was taught out the window about always being serious and professional at work.
When he was ready to get to work, he could toe the line with all the weight on his shoulders, but this was about the patient. This was about relaxing them and helping them. It was called humanity in his eyes so he’d done what came naturally to him.