Bedmates Soulmates
CHAPTER 451

The nurse left, grateful to be away from the ward.

DeChase's filend was handsome but unapproachable, cooperative

konce before bir parted the door open.

Austyn was lying on the single bed in his own rampled clothes.

He'd refused to let anyone touch him or change into a hospital gown

prissbly violent

Jesse saw the broken shards of the mometer int

taste basket and mentally ad

ly added its cost to Autryn'c bill

He cleared his throat and stund more than two metres away from the bed incase Austyn had more things to them

'How are you feeling Any dizziness, nausea, headache?"

Austyndida't respond.

He had er amidraped over his foorhead and his eyes were closed.

Jesse removed thermometer from the pocket of his white lab coat

'Time to take your temperature. You were fumming a forty or degree fever last night. Do you know how dangerous that is? You could've died, you know suttered from permanent brain damage."

1. "If the fever still doesn't go down, I'll have to change your meds.

jesse waved the digital thermometer in his band.

He approached the bed cautiously, "Now, just lie back and be a good boy open your moutli

The thermometer was an oral one

Justyn's lips remained tightly pressed together.

"Say "Aah "Come on, it's not going to hurt at all. Linde kits can do this, Jesse card hisfriend.

Austyn ignored him.

Jesse poked his shoulder with a finger. 'Come on Just open your mouth. I'm your doctor You're the patient. Don't act like a baby. Just let me take your temperature.

He added. "Dr 1 won't tell you what your wife is doing."

Austyn opened his eyes.

He stared at Jesse frostily.

The doctor was undaunted, "Just let me do my job. III don't give you a clean bill of health, you're not getting out of this room."

After a while, Austyn reached out a hand. 'Give me "

Jesse grinned.

He gave the thermometer to Austyn, who stuck it into his mouth.

Jesse waited for the beep before removing the thermometer, "Thirty-nine-point-two degrees. Much better than last night, but you're not out of the woods vet.! "Where is she?

"Who?"Jessigned ignorance.

'You know who,' Austyn narrowed his eyes.

"Oh, your wide "Jesse patted his head. "I almost forgot. She's outside the ICU on the second floor. A colleague told me she stood outside the operating comfor hours. When they transferred the man to the ICU, she followed them and sat on a bench in the hallway. Hasn't lett since. She's still there."

Jesse put away the thermometer. "As for the man with the gunshot wound, the surgery's a success. He's going to live

Austyn lowered his eyes

He smiled bitterly