Emergency Instinct - Chapter 59
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Their thick tongues intertwined deeper, becoming one. Ji-an wrapped her legs around Tae-jun’s waist, clinging to him as if she wouldn’t let go.
He unhesitatingly stripped off her clothes and pressed his lips to her cleavage.
She was swept up in desire, her eyes hazy as she let out rough breaths. With each movement under the heavy weight, the single bed creaked unusually loudly.
She had never thought the bed frame was weak before. But was it because she was excited today? As their movements grew larger, it somehow felt precarious.
“Ah, the bed can’t handle it.”
“If it breaks, I’ll buy you a new one.”
“No, that’s not what I— Be careful, ah!”
Tae-jun couldn’t hold back and thrust deep inside her.
Her back arched dizzily.
Ji-an’s upper body heaved as she rose endlessly upward.
The headboard rattled, and her heart raced as if it would burst through her chest to reach him.
Unable to contain the intense tremors, Ji-an dug her nails into his muscled back. She held on and held on, trying not to slip, letting out breathless cries.
More, more, deeper—wanting him to fill her completely.
***
Buzz! Buzz!
Short vibrating sounds quickly cut through the darkness.
Ji-an, who had been sleeping like one body with Tae-jun in the narrow bed, instinctively reached out and grabbed her phone. She lifted her drowsy eyelids.
[Major factory fire.]
[Multiple burn and inhalation injuries.]
[All ER staff report immediately.]
She saw the emergency messages that had come in succession to her bleary eyes.
Ji-an broke free from his embrace and bolted upright.
Her back ached from the aftermath of their intense night, and her insides throbbed. When she stood up straight, even her calves tingled. But there was no time to delay.
“Emergency call?”
Tae-jun, revealing his perfect upper body, sat up behind her and asked.
“Yes. A major fire.”
Ji-an answered quickly.
The woman who had been moaning, intoxicated by instinct in heated passion, was nowhere to be found.
Her eyes, having transformed from a woman soaked in desire back to a cool-headed doctor, were clearer than ever.
The smile gone from her face, she found and put on her underwear while tying her disheveled hair back.
Tae-jun, who had been watching her as if mesmerized, also spoke in a firm voice.
“I’ll drive you.”
“No. Running will be faster. Sleep a bit more.”
“You’ll fall. Be careful, at least put on your padding…”
Tae-jun got up to follow her as she rushed out without even properly putting on clothes and shouted. But Ji-an had already disappeared like the wind.
Bang!
With the sound of the closing door, Tae-jun was instantly alone.
“Ha…”
It seemed like it took Ji-an less than 10 seconds to get fully dressed.
Just like taking clothes off, putting them on was also incredibly fast and thrilling.
He had seen it with his own eyes, but it was an unbelievable speed and intensity.
Tae-jun let out a quiet laugh as he recalled Ji-an from the moment the emergency call rang until she disappeared, as if reviewing it.
Last night, he thought they would burn with passion all night long. But Ji-an had fallen asleep before midnight.
Since urgent situations like this weren’t uncommon, being tired was natural.
“At least it’s good that she got a few hours of sleep.”
It was wise that he had suppressed his regret and greed.
If he had been greedy and tormented her, it would have been terrible. She would have rushed out to answer the emergency call without getting any sleep at all.
Tae-jun buried his nose in the pillow, searching for the scent she left behind, and tried to close his eyes again.
But it was useless.
Sleep didn’t seem like it would come again, and as he thought of the chaotic emergency room, he began to worry more and more about Ji-an.
“Will she be okay?”
She wasn’t even a child left by the water’s edge, but he didn’t know why he was always so anxious. No matter how much patience he tried to exercise, it was useless.
Didn’t they say it was a major fire?
There shouldn’t be any problems if the hospital director stepped in.
Tae-jun got up without any lingering attachment.
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Ambulances constantly rushing in.
Sirens wailing endlessly.
When Ji-an entered the hospital, cutting through the darkness of dawn.
The air inside the emergency room was like a fire scene.
Acrid heat and the smell of burning scratched at her throat, and the floor was tangled with blackened footprints and spilled water.
Charred bodies being transferred onto beds.
Clothing being cut away with scissors.
Gauze attached to peeled skin trembled and fluttered.
It was truly a battlefield.
“Ahhhhh! Stop! No! No!”
Agonizing screams that made one’s heart sink just from hearing them.
A patient with full-body burns being taken to the sterile room writhed and wailed like having a seizure, then suddenly collapsed as if cut off.
The medical staff continued treatment carefully with pained expressions.
Injections went in, and gauze was applied to areas where skin had peeled off, revealing red flesh underneath. Each time tape was pulled, the patient’s body reflexively flinched and trembled in pain.
Without a doubt, burns must be the greatest pain humans can feel.
Ji-an, who had been frozen and unable to collect herself for a moment, squeezed her eyes shut and then opened them wide. Then she willingly plunged into the chaos.
“Over here! Burn patient triage!”
“Coming in! Careful! Suspected inhalation injury, oxygen first!”
Pouring shouts hit Ji-an’s head.
“I’ll go!”
She ran following a patient coming in with the paramedics.
A middle-aged man. Extensive burns on his face and neck.
The patient’s eyelashes and eyebrows were burned off so he couldn’t open his eyes properly, and there was a wheezing sound with each breath.
“Checking consciousness. Can you hear me?”
His head moved slightly.
It was too weak to be called an answer—just the minimal sign that he was alive.
“Oxygen 15 liters. Suspected carbon monoxide exposure.”
“Yes!”
The moment they put on the mask, the man coughed roughly. Soot-mixed phlegm spat out of his mouth.
His oxygen saturation fluctuated dangerously. His heart rate was unstable.
“High possibility of inhalation injury. Prepare for early intubation.”
Ji-an immediately gave orders, and her hands moved even faster.
“BP dropping.”
“Get two IV lines.”
Ji-an held her breath briefly and attempted intubation.
Under the laryngoscope light, swollen airways and soot.
Calculations automatically ran in her head. Burn area, weight, required fluid volume.
Suppressing emotions, she moved quickly and accurately.
When the tube went in and breathing was stabilized.
“Doctor, please look at this patient too.”
The curtain next to them was pulled back as if it had been waiting.
They moved without a moment to catch their breath.
A young woman with peeling facial skin and blisters was trembling while gripping the bed rail. Her eyes were bulging as if they might roll back, and terror spread across her skin.
“Ahhh! It hurts. Please save me… save me…”
The patient couldn’t finish her words.
Her breathing became rapid, and her lips quickly turned blue.
“She must have inhaled a lot of smoke. Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide… hydrogen cyanide poisoning is also possible.”
Ji-an quickly examined the patient’s face and mouth.
What was more frightening than burns was the invisible poison.
The hot smoke and gas that entered the lungs could steal oxygen and destroy the body from within.
“Draw ABGA (arterial blood gas analysis) and check lactate levels too.”
Ji-an quickly gave test orders.
While weighing the visible burns against the suffocation progressing inside the body, the monitor alarm briefly sounded.
Ji-an pressed the oxygen mask down to secure it tightly.
“Maintain high-concentration oxygen. No matter what!”
Her voice naturally rose.
Carbon monoxide competed with oxygen, so it had to be pushed out as much as possible.
“If consciousness drops or breathing becomes unstable, prepare for immediate airway management!”
Ji-an rapidly fired instructions at the intern who had rushed over.
“When the ABGA results come out, check carboxyhemoglobin too. And if lactate comes out high, the possibility of hydrogen cyanide poisoning increases.”
“Pl-please slow down a little.”
Watching the intern taking notes, Ji-an paused for a beat before continuing.
“Prepare an antidote if needed. Go with hydroxocobalamin (vitamin B12).”
Ji-an incised the blisters and quickly wiped away the soot.
But the screams of burn patients that kept pouring in didn’t end easily.
The fire at the fire scene might have been extinguished, but the emergency room was now blazing as if it was just beginning.
“Doctor! Patient 7.”
“Yes.”
It was when Ji-an was breathlessly heading to the next patient.
“Ugh!”
Suddenly someone grabbed Ji-an’s wrist as if to break it.
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