Sleeping With The CEO
Chapter 352: Pressure

Chapter 352: Pressure

Though it might come as a shock to many people. Very few doctors actually wanted to be the ones in charge of treating patients who were high profile.

Dr Stephen Arlington belonged to the vast majority of medical professionals who did not enjoy treating high level patients. Things like ’doctor to the stars’ might have sounded good to say, and the pay was also astronomical. Especially if they decided to hire you privately.

But the negatives were just too much for most people. Not only would you have multiple people hovering over you. People with the ability to end your career with the snap of a finger if they wanted to.

The internal pressure was also something else. Medicine was stressful enough on a regular basis. It did not help matters knowing that the life of a well-loved celebrity, or of a president or an important diplomat depended on you.

That just increased the likelihood of mistakes. Which were the last things that a person needed in that situation. So when Dr Arlington had heard that Derek Haven, former CEO of Haven Group. Whose disappearance the news had been airing non-stop had been found.

He had been happy in a distant sort of way. The way people were when something good happened to a stranger. But then when he’d been told that Derek Haven was heading to their hospital. Dr Arlington would not lie. He had panicked a bit. Scared of the consequences of that, of all of the attention it would bring.

But now that he was finally working on Derek Haven, and the woman that he had been found with, who also happened to be his girlfriend, Emily Molson.

Stephen Arlington would not have been anywhere else. Pressure or not.

The case of Derek Haven and Emily Moulson was a fascinating one.

By the time that Derek and Emily had arrived at the hospital. Stephen had used the time that they had been en route to collect himself. Pushing aside all reservations so that he would treat them as just patients. Their status not interfering with how much efficiency he used to do the job.

And at first that had worked. Derek and Emily, at the end of the day, were just people after all.

The staff had gotten them in. Assessing the damage from the bullets as well as from being thrown against rocks and almost drowning. The amount of trauma that the human body could take, and still keep going never ceased to astound him.

But that was not what turned out to be fascinating about Derek and Emily.

When they had been assessing the level of damage to the two. They had done so without moving them apart. But the moment that the assessment had been completed. The teams had each begun moving away with their assigned patient. And that was where things had gotten interesting.

Derek and Emily had gotten a few feet away from each other. Then everything had started going haywire.

Their previously weak, but steady heartbeats suddenly beating erratically. Their blood pressure dropping to the point of danger. Their breaths barely there.

Things had gotten so out of control so fast that the teams had both had to stop in their tracks, and start working on stabilizing the patients once more. Unintentionally getting them closer together again, as they had moved them both to the machines by the wall. When Derek and Emily had stabilized again. Multiple sighs of relief had followed.

Then the teams had once again resumed trying to separate them. It had taken four more tries. All of them resulting in the same panic as they had struggled to keep the two alive before Dr Rogers. The oldest doctor in the room, and therefore the one with the most experience, had finally said something.

"They have formed a bond. Stop trying to move them apart. By doing that, we are hurting instead of helping,"

A bond?! Like the soul mate ones in the novels that his wife was always raving about? Ha!

As a man of science, Stephen had wanted to dismiss her theory on instinct, but he had stopped himself. Judging from the looks in the room. He had not been the only one filled with doubt.

Just to be sure, they had tried it again. And sure enough, as soon as they began getting a considerable distance away from each other. Derek and Emily’s bodies had just seemed to give up. Only calming back down once the two of them were pushed closer together once again.

And Stephen had to just stare for a few seconds, dumbfounded.

He’d heard of similar things happening before. But in those cases, physical touch was the main cause of the bond. Plus it normally happened with people who were really close, like twins. The weaker twin, latching on to the stronger one.

Their heartbeats and breathing matching until the weaker twin got strong enough to sustain themselves.

It also seemed to be very similar to the kangaroo method. Where mothers with premature babies strapped them to their chests, and the babies unconsciously copied their heartbeats. But even if it was similar to the normal cases in some ways. It was so completely different.

Stephen had never seen such a case in adults and it seemed that whatever bond Emily Molson, and Derek Haven had. It was unbelievably strong. They seemed to know instinctively when the other was being moved away. Fingers twitching in an attempt to reach out to one another. It was a strange situation for sure. But one they all quickly adjusted to, in an effort to treat their patients.

The operating room was filled to the max with two tables set out. Emily and Derek side by side, as the doctors worked on them. As it turned out, both of them were lucky. The bullets had not ricocheted off any bones. The shockwave had cracked Derek’s ankle.

He would be needing a cast and to keep his weight off the leg for a while. But Emily’s bullet had gone right through. The biggest issue had been the trauma of the rocks, as well as the blood loss. But it seemed that the two of them were going to make it. They would just need a lot of care to make sure that they recovered well.

After the operating teams finally finished. The two of them were moved to the same room. Their heartbeats as steady as anything, despite everything that they had been through. Given everything that they had been through. It would take a while for them to wake up. But they would wake up, even if it would take a while. Which was far better than the alternative.

It was certainly going to be something that a lot of the staff would be remembering for a long time. And Stephen was certain it would be quite the conversation topic in many seminars and conferences for months.

So hyped up after witnessing such a unique bond. Stephen did not even mind when he was chosen to be the one to inform the families. Normally he hated talking to relatives. Even if it was to deliver good news. But for this one, he was going to do it gladly.