THE DOCTOR'S LOVE TRAP
54. Must return
El paid no heed to the words Raymond was saying. He was only focused on Abrine who looked shivering. He carried his wife's body into the room where they were staying. While Raymond can only hope El is able to give his best to Abrine as soon as possible.
"Darling, I'm sorry...." El feels guilty. As soon as he entered the room, he immediately turned on the heating.
El helps Abrine to change all of his clothes slowly to make sure the clothes Abrine wears are clean and dry. He put a thick coat and jacket on Abrine. He also covered his wife's body.
Abrine still looked adorable with a deathly pale face. El couldn't bear to see it. Although his wife is as tough as anything, Abrine is still a woman and definitely needs himself as a responsible husband. Inwardly, El was grateful that they arrived sooner at the inn.
El began compressing Abrine's body parts with warm water, then took another warm water to drink the wife as soon as possible.
"El?"
"Yes, honey?"
"Stay here."
Elrich nodded, grasping his wife's fingers and moving to lie down near Abrine's body. He held Abrine in order to channel even more warmth to his wife's body.
"Get back, please." El whispered expectantly.
"I'm fine, El. Only, this time I felt really cold."
"You're not okay. I'm sorry about our commotion. Sorry, sorry...."
Throughout the night, Abrine heard her husband keep muttering apologies. El seemed very guilty because of the quarrel that had occurred between them. Abrine couldn't bear to see El like that. Even though El did not have the heart to see the condition and circumstances of his wife.
El put his wife's head on his arm. Make the arm a pillow to be closer to Abrine. At dawn, El woke up because his hands were tingling.
He looked at his wife's sleeping face and touched her temperature. Abrine's condition is starting to improve. Her skin was not as cold as it was. His face was starting to brighten again. Thankfully, it seemed like Abrine had completely recovered.
El dips Abrine's forehead at a glance. She realized that she had not changed clothes until she fell asleep next to Abrine.
"I'm sorry, I don't know much about you. I'm gonna make this a lesson. I'm really scared to see you like last night." El said gently in front of his wife's sleeping face.he rubbed his own face rough, guilt continued to surround him. He should immediately bring Abrine back and not too long in this place.
By morning Abrine woke up from his sleep. He didn't find El who fell asleep next to him last night. Apparently El was packing. He's really gonna bring Abrine back.
Abrine approached El who looked busy. He was surprised why El packed their clothes in a bag again when they were only one day in this place. Is this because of yesterday? Because of her relapsing hypothermia?
"Els? Why are all the clothes in the bag again?"
"We go home" said El quickly without looking at Abrine. He was busy with his activities.
"But ...."
"I don't want to sacrifice you and stay in a cold place like this for too long."
"El maybe yesterday I was just exhausted and the ambient temperature was dropping so---"
"I don't accept rejection, Brine. We're home."
El's words managed to make Abrine speechless. He knew El was worried about his health. He complied and that afternoon they also made their way back to the city.
"El, sorry .. 'cause I'm not honey we're broken."
"No, Brine. If anyone's to blame here then I'm the one."
"You're not wrong. I'm the one who wants to go to that place."
"And I did it without asking my wife's own history of illness. What kind of doctor am I!" regret El, make Abrine shut up for a moment. Abrine didn't expect El to feel so guilty like that.
"Other times we can go somewhere else that doesn't make your condition drop, baby. Enough last night I saw you like that and I feel fucked."
"El.. don't blame yourself" Abrine said.
El clasped Abrine's hand, caught a glimpse of him and kissed his wife's back.
"Sorry, I'm too scared to lose you."
Abrine smiled faintly. How many times has El said sorry since last night? It feels countless.
They also traveled home for some time and arrived at the apartment before dusk.
Abrine stroked El's jaw at a glance, without a word, he entered their residence.
To be honest, Abrine felt bad because their honeymoon had to be chaotic because of yesterday's events. But he never thought if the disease approached him at the wrong time.
*****
El has returned to his routine. Today he has an operation schedule until night.
Xander approached him and asked him how he was doing.
"How's the honeymoon? What's fun?"
El smiled thinly. "Everything is fine."
"How's your relationship going, any progress?"
El snorted slowly. "Abrine hasn't been able to forget the man. I don't want to force it," he said.
Xander nodded his head. "Everything needs a process, right? Just like you who also need time to be absolutely sure about how you feel."
"Yes, I know."
"I heard your schedule today with Claire again."
"That's how it is" Elrich replied with a look of no interest.
"May it work." Xander patted El's shoulder at a glance and passed from there.
El entered the operating room. This is not his first flight time. He has done the same thing repeatedly. But, if you have to deal with Claire always makes it go awry. Nervous, awkward and I don't know what else. He simply avoided the quarrel with the woman, so he kept quiet and relented.
"From the beginning, I knew that Pevita wasn't pregnant with your child." All of a sudden, Claire testifies in the operating room. They are considering doing surgery.
Claire's words not only surprised El, even all the accompanying doctors and nurses in the same room were shocked because of the words thrown by the woman.
El was silent, I don't know what Claire meant to talk about personal matters at a time like this.
"So, what disappointed me wasn't that you got my sister pregnant, but because you asked her to have an abortion."
Everything in the room was silent. Only the sound of the anesthesia machine is heard because it is used to help when the operation process takes place.
Elrich put the hemostat (surgical scissors) in his hand into the instrument tub. In fact, he should be able to give it to a companion nurse to help him put the tools in place to stay sterile.
Claire's words did make El riled up. If he is selfish, right now he wants to go and get out of the operating room immediately. Unfortunately, he had to be able to be patient more and more. Ignoring Claire's words that seemed to have deliberately messed with his mind. He continued the operation until it was completed.
El knows, after this will be a lot of talk of others about him. It seems that Claire not only wants to mess with her mind but also wants to tarnish her good name in front of her other colleagues.
Thankfully, the operation went smoothly without any obstacles. El came out of the operating room followed by the others.
"Doctor El, Doctor Claire, you're called to Doctor Finn's office."
El knows, now the problem must creep up to the hospital leader. This is all because Claire's mouth deliberately talks about personal problems in the middle of the operation process.
"After this, you still have to deal with me, Claire!" El shines a sharp look on Claire's face but the woman is just stinged cynically.
******
Hemostats
Instument tub
Anesthesia Machine
