Dr. Off Limits by Louise Bay EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Louise Bay
- Language: English
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- Status: Available for Download
- Genre: Romance
- Price: Free
- File Size: 3 MB
- Published Date: September 6, 2022
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In just five days’ time, I’d be working at one of the most prestigious
hospitals in London, answering to the name I’d worked hard to make mine:
Doctor Scott. The thought was very likely to hospitalize me with a panic
attack between now and then.
“How are the odds looking?” Parker asked me.
“Not good.” I winced at the tightness of the strap around my chin. I
fiddled with the fastenings of my helmet and instantly the harness that I’d
just been strapped into started to bite into my thighs. Normally being in the
outdoors, in the midst of trees the height of skyscrapers, breathing in air as
fresh as it got in London would be a welcome change from studying at my
desk. Not today. As I took in the crisscross of wires between the trees and
the so-called bridges between them that I was expected to walk along, I
decided this kind of change, I could live without. “The likelihood of me
having a panic attack just went to ninety-two percent.”
“But we got down to forty yesterday,” Parker said, her tone a teenager
who’d been told her curfew was 9pm.
“Yesterday involved an open-top bus, an uber-enthusiastic tour guide
with a passion for the fire of London, and mimosas. Today is different
territory. In every sense.”
My best friend was well aware of my anxiety when it came to starting at
the hospital. She’d witnessed the years I’d spent studying. The long days
that ran into longer nights. The nonexistent social life, sacrificed to the
study gods. The way I used to send up a tiny prayer that my clients would
cancel their haircuts so I could cram in an extra forty-five minutes of study.
Over the years, enough of my prayers were answered that I passed each
stage of my journey on the way to being a doctor. My new job had been a
long time coming, the culmination of every second of hard work I’d put in
over the last seven years.
“I thought a ropes course would be the height of distracting,” Parker
argued. “Pun intended.”
“Not from my imminent death, it’s not.”
“I suppose I didn’t think about that. You want me to go first?”
I shook my head. I always found it was better not to know how difficult
things were about to get or you risked chickening out before even trying. If
I’d known what I was going to face studying to become a doctor back when
I was cutting hair and discussing people’s holidays six days a week, I would
have never filled out that first application form. For many of the years
since, it had been beyond hard, but if I’d known how hard it was about to
get, there were a thousand times I would have given up. Naivety and blind
ambition were a powerful combination.
One of the instructors clipped my harness onto the twisted metal rope
and ushered me forward. “Keep moving. There are arrows showing you the
direction you’re heading and instructors placed regularly along the route.”
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