Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 17

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#Episode 17

Look at this. Now he’s planning to not let me see patients at all.

At Kang Hyeok’s words, Jeon Su-ji looked at Da-som. Her eyes asked what kind of trouble she had caused.

“…I understand.”

The joy of making the patient’s heart beat together was brief, and Da-som quietly turned around.

Eun Hyeok, who was just moving to insert a catheter into the patient, seemed to have heard Kang Hyeok’s cold voice and glared at the back of Kang Hyeok’s head once before sending Da-som a pitying look.

Just say you were wrong no matter what.

Eun Hyeok was saying that with his eyes.

Yeah.

What choice do I have? I have to apologize no matter what.

“Do an ultrasound examination and then take a chest X-ray.”

Kang Hyeok’s voice giving instructions to the medical staff could be heard from behind.

The department, where the languid afternoon sunlight seeped in, was quiet unlike the emergency room which was like a battlefield.

Da-som went over to the long table and sat down.

She thought her ankle was fine, but it was throbbing, so it seemed she should put on a pain relief patch.

Of all things, to sprain my ankle.

Jeon Su-ji, who was in charge, would explain well to the guardian, but she still felt sorry.

“Haah…”

Da-som let out a long sigh and hung her head low with both hands tucked between her thighs.

After being like that for a few minutes, she raised her head at the sound of the department door opening.

Kang Hyeok was entering.

Da-som got up from her seat and looked up at Kang Hyeok.

“I’m sorry.”

She apologized first to Kang Hyeok who had approached closely.

“That’s right, you should have been careful.”

She wasn’t expecting warm words saying she just needed to do well next time, but his scolding still pierced her heart.

Moreover, those cold eyes.

If he set his mind to it, he was someone who could turn any place into Siberia.

“Sit down.”

Da-som sat in the chair like an obedient child.

“Let me look at your leg. It’s the left leg, right?”

Kang Hyeok turned the chair Da-som was sitting in to face him, then bent his knees and sat down.

“…Uh, it’s, it’s fine.”

Kang Hyeok wrapped Da-som’s left ankle with his large hands and looked up at her.

Startled Da-som tried to quickly pull her foot away, but her ankle held firmly wouldn’t budge.

“Why is it so thin.”

“…”

Kang Hyeok lowered his gaze to her ankle again and examined its condition, turning the ankle this way and that with his large hands.

“Doesn’t it hurt? It doesn’t seem like the ligaments are stretched.”

“The, the muscle seems…a little, a little shocked.”

When she spoke stammering with a bright red face, Kang Hyeok put Da-som’s leg down and stood up.

Then he took out a compression bandage from his coat pocket and brought over another chair to put Da-som’s leg on it.

“I’ll wrap a compression bandage for you, so don’t take it off saying it’s stuffy and keep it on. If it still hurts tomorrow, let’s get an X-ray.”

“I, I’ll do it myself.”

“I’ll do it.”

Kang Hyeok began wrapping the bandage with skilled hands.

She thought he came to scold her about the ribs, but apparently that wasn’t it.

She couldn’t believe why Kang Hyeok was holding her ankle and caring for her so tenderly like this, whether this was a dream or reality.

Kang Hyeok’s face reflected in the sunlight streaming through the window was beautiful like a sculpture.

Looking at his long eyelashes, sharp jawline and high nose bridge made her fingertips tingle.

…I want to touch it.

This was the first time she felt this way since my actor Han-bin.

Her heart started pounding and her face heated up as if it would burst.

Not knowing he was this kind, I thought he just came to scold me.

“…I thought you were going to scold me, Professor.”

“You should be scolded. If you get hurt like this by not being careful, you should be scolded.”

Even while saying he would scold her, his touch brushing her ankle was infinitely gentle.

Hyung, was this your personality? You must have caught many women.

“It’s not that, but during CPR the patient’s ribs…”

“They were already cracked. It happened because the first-year resident used too much force.”

It was true that the first-year resident started CPR first, but she looked at Kang Hyeok with an unknowing gaze as he definitively said it was the first-year resident’s doing.

Then he, who had finished wrapping the bandage, raised his head to look at Da-som. A smile crossed his cool eyes under his thick eyebrows.

His eyes holding sunlight were shining brilliantly.

…Are you a male god?

Could someone be this perfect?

Her fan instincts activated and she felt the urge to take a photo with her phone.

“…Take medicine. Rest for about an hour before coming out. I told the Head of Department.”

Kang Hyeok’s hand approached Da-som’s flushed face.

Frozen, she just rolled her big eyes and waited to see what Kang Hyeok was trying to do.

He gently brushed Da-som’s cheek with the back of his hand, then slowly clenched his fist and stood up.

Ah…, you can touch more.

When she looked up at him with eyes full of regret, Kang Hyeok chuckled and ruffled Da-som’s hair.

“See you in the evening.”

With those words, Kang Hyeok left the department. The door closed and there seemed to be some sound from outside, but she didn’t care.

Wow.

This was the first time in her life she wanted to push her head toward someone.

From the moment she met Kang Hyeok, something inside her had been stirring and shaking her.

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[Emergency Medicine Department Professor Tae Kang-hyeok]

Seeing the nameplate, Da-som clenched her fist tightly and knocked twice on the research lab door.

“Yes.”

The voice coming from inside was definitely Kang Hyeok’s voice, half air and half sound.

After pressing down on her churning chest like she was carsick, she grabbed the door handle and went inside.

Click.

But…

What in the world did I just see?

No, Professor!

If you’re going to be shirtless like that, shouldn’t you tell me to wait?

The bronze abs hidden under the blue surgical gown top were like a washboard.

Such perfect abs.

Isn’t it instinct to like beautiful things and be captivated by them?

Da-som thought in her head that she should stop looking, but couldn’t quite take her eyes away.

“Sorry, sit over there.”

Kang Hyeok said with a completely unapologetic expression while putting on a black shirt.

Da-som, who had been staring at Kang Hyeok as if enchanted, sat down on the sofa placed on one side of the research lab.

It felt quite nice with its soft yet appropriate elasticity.

Even in her dazed state, she thought it would be nice to have a sofa like this in her moved officetel and caressed the sofa with her fingertips.

Kang Hyeok leisurely buttoned up his shirt, then pulled over the wheeled chair from in front of his desk and sat across from her.

His muscular chest stood out particularly under the body-hugging shirt. His smooth abs without a trace of flab were the same.

It was so perfect that she thought the biggest reason Eun Hyeok hyung became endlessly twisted in front of him was probably because of that body.

“How’s your leg? Wasn’t it uncomfortable to move around?”

Kang Hyeok lowered his gaze and stared at Da-som’s ankle.

“Oh, it’s gotten much better. There’s no problem moving around at all.”

Maybe it was because it was tightly wrapped with the compression bandage, but she didn’t feel any discomfort while walking.

“That’s a relief.”

“Yes, it’s thanks to you, Professor.”

When Da-som spoke with sincerity, Kang Hyeok looked at her for a moment as if surprised, then smiled slightly.

“Right, anyway, do you have any plans after this?”

Kang Hyeok asked while looking at his wristwatch.

“Oh, no. Nothing particularly special.”

Even as she answered, something felt unsettling.

Was he really planning to give her a hard time?

Surely not, right?

With an anxious heart, she bit her lips and looked at Kang Hyeok.

“Then get ready to leave work right away and let’s meet at the Main Building Entrance. You know where I dropped you off this morning, right?”

Wait, hold on! What kind of situation is this?

He wants to leave the hospital?

“I’m sorry, but if possible, I’d prefer to talk here…”

“Professor Ma will be coming soon. I don’t mind, but would you be okay with that?”

She hadn’t even told Eun Hyeok and Han Byeol yet, so it would be ridiculous for Professor Ma to hear about her situation with Kang Hyeok first.

Da-som had no choice but to answer.

“…I understand.”

“Good, then let’s meet in 10 minutes.”

Kang Hyeok got up from his chair.

As she stared up at him blankly, Kang Hyeok’s eyes narrowed and he strode toward Da-som.

“Why does your leg still hurt? Let me see.”

Kang Hyeok bent down without any hesitation and grabbed Da-som’s ankle.

The compression bandage was still wrapped well, just as he had put it on.

“The top of your foot seems a bit swollen. How does this feel?”

He completely removed Da-som’s foot from the Crocs slipper and pressed and touched the top of her foot here and there.

We’re not close enough for this, are we?

Flustered, Da-som tried to pull her foot out of his grasp with force. But then he touched the sole of her foot…

“It, it tickles, Professor.”

Da-som, who couldn’t stand being tickled the most, pushed hard against Kang Hyeok’s shoulder. But he didn’t budge like a tree deeply rooted in the ground.

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