“Is she going to be all right?”
Chad turned to see Patrick approaching and stepped aside so his friend could see into the room in the women’s hospital ward. It was housed in a separate building, presumably because women needed to be away from men and their noises and smells to heal properly. Chad could see the reasoning behind the rules, but it tore him apart inside that he’d have to leave her to return to his own duties and patients.
Since men greatly outnumbered the women on the base, and pregnant and nursing mothers and children were usually sent away from the border as a precaution, Claire was the only patient. Chad hovered in the doorway. He’d made sure she was stable but dared not stay too close to her.
“She’s fine as far as I can tell.” Chad rubbed the back of his neck “I made a
