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An Excerpt From: ROCK ME
Copyright © MELODY LANE, 2008
All Rights Reserved, Ellora's Cave Publishing,
Inc.
Jenny threw a fresh blue polka-dot gown, towels,
washcloth and multiple clean trash bags over her arm as she walked quickly
to Ian’s room. When she opened the door, she saw the light above his bed
was already turned on and he was sitting up. She peeked over at him,
waiting for him to speak first.
He frowned at her. “Jenny, I’ve been patiently waiting
for you, but you didn’t come back. I was getting ready to put on my nurse
call light. Maybe I should just start screaming out your name really
loud. Would you come running then?”
“So you’re feeling better?” She smiled.
He nodded, as he stared into her eyes. “Much. I’d rather
look at you than anything else in this room.”
She blushed, momentarily blindsided by his statement.
Recovering quickly, she stammered, “The…the pain shot is working.”
“It is.”
“Did you want to get washed up at bedside or a shower?”
“Shower.”
“Somehow, I thought so.” Jenny started feeling a little
nervous again. This was going to get scary. “I brought in a trash bag to wrap
around your arm so your cast doesn’t get wet. Here are a
couple more and a roll of tape I’m leaving here for you to take when
you leave the hospital.”
“I didn’t think about that. Can’t let it get wet, eh?”
“That wouldn’t be a good thing.”
Lifting himself up slowly to the side of the bed, he let
a deep breath from the effort. “Will you turn the water on for me?” He
looked at her with a twinkle in the eyes. “Just so that you know, I like it
hot…really hot.”
“Okay,” she murmured slowly, not sure of how to take his
remark. He was definitely feeling better from that shot of Demerol. She
went into the bathroom and turned on the shower. Hanging the towels, clean
gown, washcloth and trash bag on the towel rack, she finished readying the
shower for him.
It took her a few seconds to grasp the fact that she
would be seeing Ian McAllister completely nude in just a few moments. Would
she be able to handle it? She shook her head. The things you got to do at
work sometimes.
She walked back out to him, feeling anxious. This would
most definitely be a challenge. It was time for the nurse in her to take
control of the situation again and leave her feelings out of things. Take care of him like any other
patient…like any other man who probably treats women badly. Stop, Jenny. Leave your man problems out
of this. Ian is your patient and he needs your help. Besides, she had
no idea how he behaved toward women. She didn’t know him at all.
“Ready?” he asked.
She nodded as she became all business. “Can you stand by
yourself?”
Using his good arm, he pushed himself up from the bed.
As he shakily stood next to her, Jenny remembered he was almost six inches
taller than her. He looked down.
“You’ll have to hold the back of my gown closed while I
walk to the shower, unless seeing my arse doesn’t
bother you.” He grinned as he stared into her face.
She met his gaze full force. “Seeing your arse doesn’t bother me in the least. I’ve already seen
it once.” Taking him by the elbow, she directed him slowly toward the
bathroom.
They took their time, walking arm in arm. Jenny could
admit to herself that she loved being next to him…touching him, even if he
was ill. She didn’t look at his “arse”, although
she wanted to. Finally reaching the bathroom, she turned toward him.
“I’ll be taping the trash bag around your cast to keep
it from getting wet. You still need to be careful though. Don’t let the
water run over it.”
He nodded.
She took a roll of tape out of her front pants pocket
and tore off a long piece.
In a move quite unexpected by Jenny, he reached behind
his back with his good arm and untied the hospital gown. As it slid off his
body and fell to the floor, Ian McAllister stood naked right in front of
her. Jenny inhaled quickly, not knowing whether air was actually entering
her body at this point. It was all she could do to not look down. Knowing
his cock was going to be there, so close, made it even more difficult. She
had never felt so uncomfortable around a man in her entire adult life.
Jenny should just get it over with and look. After all, she had wanted to
see it for years. Look at him, Jenny, she demanded of
herself.
But she stayed a respectable nurse and didn’t.
She took the trash bag from the towel rack and placed it
over his cast. Wrapping the tape around the upper aspect of his arm, she tore
the end off with her fingers and secured it so that no water could seep
inside. The small bathroom was getting steamier and Jenny was unsure if she
was sweating from the steam or from Ian McAllister standing naked right in
front of her. She decided it was definitely both.
“Cheers.” He smiled. He opened up the shower curtain and
stepped in. “I hope you stay in here and help me wash. I’d hate to lose my
bearings if I got soap in my eyes.”
She sighed. Everything he said was such a challenge to
her. Is he teasing me or serious?
“Right now I’m more concerned about you standing up for too long.”
“I do feel a bit dizzy.” He leaned his casted arm
against the wall. “I wish there was something to rest my arm on. It feels
quite heavy.”
Jenny knew she had better make this shower quick and get
him back to bed. She was worried about him falling. As she contemplated
slowly washing every inch of his body with her tongue, she just as quickly
dismissed those thoughts. There would be no hanky panky with Ian
McAllister. She frowned. Life just got in the way of dreams sometimes.
“Okay, Ian, we’re going to make this fast. I’ll have to help you get the
job done. You shouldn’t be up very long for your first time after surgery.”
“Whatever you say, Jenny. You’re the boss of me today.
I’m yours.” He smiled as he let the water run over his head and body. “This
water feels utterly fantastic! I feel like I haven’t had a wash in days
instead of just twelve hours.”
As Jenny watched him standing naked in the shower, she
found herself mesmerized and unable to look away. Even if the hospital fire
alarm went off, she wouldn’t be able to move. She was having her own Code
Orange.
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