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*Forty-Nine

Author: Goldie
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-31 23:15:26

The nurses bustled out of the room, leaving me alone with the doctor who looked like he’d been handcrafted by the gods and accidentally dropped into a public hospital.

I lay there, bruised, scraped, completely immobile. When his eyes landed on mine, something traitorous stirred between my legs, like an electric jolt straight to my core.

What the hell was wrong with me?

Maybe it was the pain meds. Maybe I was concussed. Or maybe I was just delusional.

Because what kind of half-broken woman lying in a hospital bed starts getting turned on by a stranger?

When he leaned closer, I forgot how to breathe. My heart skipped a beat. The delusional part of my brain, the one that still believed in fairy tales, thought he might kiss me.

Instead, he pulled out a silver flashlight and shone it into my eyes.

I winced.

“Sorry. Just checking your pupils.”

I was a big fool to have just survived a car accident, and instead of feeling pain, I was practically eye-fucking a doctor.

He could even be marri
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