The Patient: A Romance Short Story

By Melinda Wilson

A Love at First Sight Romance Short Story.

When Kevin was seventeen, he fell in love with Everly, a girl from his high school that was way too out of his league. And for her, Kevin changed. He stopped getting into fights. He studied harder, became an A student, and tried to become the best man he could possibly be for her. Only, when he finally got the nerve to ask her out on a date, she didn't show up to school, and he discovered that Everly and her parents had moved away to Dublin.

 

Fourteen years later, Kevin is a busy neurosurgeon. Despite all his efforts, he can't forget about Everly. One day, he is asked to consult a patient with a unique brain tumor, and he realizes that the patient is Everly. After all these years, she has returned.

 

Does Everly still remember him? Will Kevin go out of his way to treat the girl of his dreams back to health and into his life?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ocean Light Publishing
• Release date: Dec 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201350222

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The Patient

A Romance Short Story

Melinda Wilson

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and organizations are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, live or dead, businesses, events, locales, or organizations is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2021 by Ocean Light Publishing

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 1

Before

The last fight Kevin had been in had gotten the other kid—Jacob Aarons—checked into the hospital. Not in a he broke his fist way, but in a he suffered a severe head injury and was unconscious for two days straight way. Kevin’s parents had to pay for all of the boy’s medical bills. Kevin had to pray, so the boy would wake up. What would’ve happened if he never woke up?

It had been a big scare for a seventeen-year-old boy who was just a few months away from graduation. Kevin ended up being kicked out from the third school in the last two years and had to practically get down on his knees and beg so the judge wouldn’t send him to a reformatory for troubled kids. He’d managed to get away with three months of community service (he’d collect the trash and clean the beach every weekend), see a therapist, and keep away from Jacob. Kevin was sure that it had been Jacob’s parents' decision. If it had been up to Jacob, the boy would crawl out of bed and follow Kevin into an empty street and beat the shit out of him as revenge. But no one cared about Kevin’s reasons for why he did what he did. They only cared for the other kid.

The truth was, Kevin wasn’t entirely sorry for what had happened. Jacob Aarons was a bully. Kevin had just found out the jock was picking on his sister Ella all senior year. So, Kevin threw a punch right in his stupid face. How would he know that the boy would lose balance