Tender Loving Care
"If you don't cooperate and put this thermometer under your tongue, I'll be forced to take your temperature the old-fashioned way."
Logan Phillips obligingly opened his mouth, then clamped his lips around the offending plastic-covered device. Frustration mingled with irritation when he realized the bandages around his eyes prevented the graduate from the Attila the Hun School of Nursing from seeing his glare. He didn't belong in the hospital — he had a business to run and a daughter to take care of. They couldn't keep him here....
The electronic thermometer beeped, indicating it had taken his temperature. "There. Was that so bad?" The instrument was pulled from his mouth. "In a little while, I'll send someone in to give you a nice sponge bath, Mr. Phillips."
Sponge bath? He rose up on one elbow and addressed the general direction from which he'd last heard her voice. "Just wait a minute, Nurse whatever-your-name-is. You can't expect me to...hell, I'm a grown man, and there isn't any way that...are you listening to me?"
Murmured conversations from the hall and the overloud ticking of a wall clock were the only responses. P ... read full excerpt from: Tender Loving Care ebook
