John signed the document without reading it, which had to be a first for him. I nodded to both of them. “I’ll go scrub up,” I said.
***
Eight hours later, I emerged from surgery into the waiting room, blinking a little as my eyes adjusted to the bright daylight. John was on his feet instantly.
“Is she okay?”
“I don’t know,” I replied. I tried to keep my reply as non-medical as possible. Sometimes, we took refuge in the jargon as a way to try and stay detached from the pain emanating from the families, but it was pointless in this case. “There’s a fair amount of brain swelling. We operated to ease the pressure, and we’ve put her in a coma so she can heal. We’ll monitor the swelling, and as it reduces, we’ll try to pull her out of it.” I paused. “John, there’s a very real possibility that she’ll never come out of the coma.”
He nodded. I could see him try to form words, but nothing came out. Andrea had a difficult relationship with her father. There were faults on both sides. They drove each other crazy. But never once in eight years of marriage did I doubt the very real love they had for each other.
“Do you know what happened?” I asked him.
“It was my fault, Patrick,” he replied tonelessly. “I had lunch with her yesterday. This guy, Liam Henderson, he had trouble written all over him. Ex-cop. A couple of arrests for domestic assault of his ex-wife. Charges mysteriously dropped when she wouldn’t testify. Restraining order. You name it, this guy had it. Every troubling sign in the book.”
“You told her?” I guessed. Andrea craved some sick version of submission, but she wasn’t an idiot. She would have been preparing to cut Liam loose.
John nodded. “She promised she wouldn’t do anything hasty,” he said. His voice was bleak.
I could guess what had happened. Andrea had thought she could get rid of Liam by herself. She always had a chip on her shoulder about letting her father help her. And Liam had beaten her so badly she was hooked up to a respirator, in a forced coma, fighting for her life.
“There’s more,” John added, looking grave. “I told her you’d called me. I can’t be sure she didn’t mention this to Liam. Now the guy is on the run. You need to keep your eyes open.”
“Fuck.” I wasn’t particularly worried about myself. Well, I was, but right now, any instinct for self-preservation was dwarfed by my fear for Lisa, and my sudden, possessive need to keep her safe.
Continue reading Lisa and Patrick’s story in Relapse (Doctor Dom Volume 4)
End Notes
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Books by Tara Crescent
BDSM Romance:
Teaching Maya
The House of Pain
The Professor’s Pet
BDSM & Medical Play:
Triage (Doctor Dom Volume 1)
Observation (Doctor Dom Volume 2)
Diagnosis (Doctor Dom Volume 3)
Relapse (Doctor Dom Volume 4)
BDSM Fantasy:
Magic Everywhere (Chronicles of Raan Volume 1)
Raina’s Wedding (Chronicles of Raan Volume 2)
Leila’s Training (Chronicles of Raan Volume 3)
Chronicles of Raan
Erotic Shorts:
The Professor’s Girlfriend (A Sort-of Sequel to the Professor’s Pet)
The Alien, the Doctor and the Virgin (Adventures of Suzie and the Alien Volume 1)
The Alien Trains the Virgin (Adventures of Suzie and the Alien Volume 2)
The Alien, the Virgin and the Warrior Queen (Adventures of Suzie and the Alien Volume 3)
Tentacle Monsters and the Virgin (Adventures of Suzie and the Alien Volume 4)
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Triage
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Volume 2: Observation
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4:
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Volume 3: Diagnosis
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 1
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