Dirty Daddies Underground
Mason coughs pointedly behind me, but I ignore him.
“Then,” I say, reaching for the tweezers and the small suture scissors, “I realised something else. When people wince, when they squirm, when they whimper? It doesn’t make me uncomfortable. It makes me... yeah, it makes me feel good.”
Harper’s eyebrows rise, and I grin fully this time, unashamed.
“I’m a sadist, baby girl. Turns out that’s not the kind of thing you can easily manage when you’re supposed to be healing the sick and comforting the injured. Especially not when you’re staring at a patient in pain and your brain starts translating it into foreplay.”