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have you on the
schedule to begin officially on Wednesday.”
    “ Okay, but I would still
like for Kay to give me the tour tomorrow.” Standing, she gathered
her possessions.
    “ Of course.” He nodded and
stood along with her. He was supposed to have been downstairs ten
minutes ago. “I’m working tonight, so I probably won’t see you
until tomorrow afternoon, but if you need anything just let me
know.”
    “ Thank you.” She displayed
a cute yet sleepy smile. “Good night.”
    “ Good night, Dr. Arrington,
and welcome to Ghilaua.”
    He turned toward the staircase, threw
on his white coat, and rushed down to the next floor. Once he
stepped into the hospital, he knew he had to put on his game face
and erase all thoughts of the new doctor. He decided to chalk it up
to the fact that it had been a while since he’d been in a real
relationship. He’d dated a few women in Buenos Aires, but nothing
serious because he didn’t know how long he would be there. In
addition, having an emotional attachment with someone wasn’t in his
plans at the moment. At age thirty-three, he’d been in a few
long-term relationships that had ended amicably, but right now he
wasn’t interested in anything permanent. He still wanted to travel
and work for Doctors Unlimited for the next few years before moving
back to the States.
    And yet he couldn’t get Raven’s cute
giggle and beautiful face out of his head.
    *****
    A loud, blaring ring resonated through
the air, but Raven was so exhausted she couldn’t open her eyes, and
her brain waves wouldn’t allow her to make out where the sound was
coming from. Then a loud banging caused her to shoot all the way up
and open her eyes to a dark room. Disoriented for a moment, she
wasn’t sure of her surroundings. Suddenly, she remembered that she
wasn’t in her home in Memphis, but halfway across the
world.
    The ringing had stopped, but the
banging hadn’t. When she realized it was coming from the door, she
slid out of the bed and turned on the bedside lamp. Adjusting her
vision, she sped toward the door and opened it. Kay was standing on
the other side of it with her hand in a fist, positioned to knock
again, just as the cell phone from Doctors Unlimited began to ring
from the coffee table in the living room.
    “ Dr. Arrington, I hate to
wake you, but we have an emergency.”
    Adrenaline raced through Raven’s body
at the words. Glancing down at her green scrubs that she’d slept in
for pajamas, she told Kay to hold on, and trekked back to the
bedroom, slipped on her tennis shoes, and headed out the door. She
made a mental note to make sure to place everything she needed by
the door for middle of the night emergencies. At home, everything
she needed was always in the mud room by the garage door or already
in her car.
    “ What’s happened?” she
asked as the ladies sprinted toward the elevator.
    “ One of our patients, Mrs.
Gonzalez, has gone into premature labor.”
    “ How many
weeks?”
    “ She’s only thirty weeks,
and has been on bed rest since her third month after she had a
cervical cerclage,” Kay explained as they walked down one flight of
stairs to the second floor. When they arrived to the birthing room,
all Raven heard was frantic screaming in Spanish from a man holding
Mrs. Gonzalez’s hand and Armand trying to calm the man down.
Another nurse, whom Raven had met earlier, began updating her about
Mrs. Gonzalez’s condition. As Raven listened, she looked at the
monitor as well. The baby was breeched with one foot stretched out
and the other tucked underneath, and headed to the birth canal. She
could try to move the baby, but it would be very painful for the
mother who was already in pain and bleeding.
    However, Raven was more curious to
know what the patient was trying to whisper out as her blood
pressure and heart monitor continued to drop. Raven spoke Spanish,
but the conversation was so intense and fast between the two men,
she could only make out what Mrs.