Breeding My Stepsister on the Ice novel · Chapter 28 of 32
Chapter 28: The Board
Tate read it over my shoulder in the lobby.
"Open to the public," he said.
"Open to the public."
"So I get to come."
"Everybody gets to come."
He was already texting the goalie.
I finished my clerkship in May and June, in navy scrubs, under the chief of orthopedics.
He had a gray buzz cut and reading glasses he kept losing on top of his head.
On my first morning he handed me a patient with a broken wrist instead of a clipboard.
"You were a paramedic," he said. "Splint it. Then tell me what you'd do next."
I splinted it. I told him.
"Good," he said. "Again."
His residents didn't count gauze. Neither did I.
The board met in a hearing room on the ninth floor of the state office building downtown.
It held about a hundred people.
It was full by eight-thirty.
The five players sat in the front row in suits, with their wives and the winger's fiancée beside them.
The captain's wife held his hand the whole time. The goalie sat next to Gemma, who held his.
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