Camryn Wells wasn't trying to rebuild her life so much as outrun the version of it that nearly destroyed her. After a year and a half off the grid, nursing wounds no one could see and some that still ached like hell, she's back in Pittsburgh. Sort of. She's here for Gwen, the woman who adopted her, who's now fading into early-onset dementia. She's on night shift, working trauma at PTMC, trying to remember the nurse she used to be-and to convince her small army of overprotective siblings that she's fine now. That she's not the broken girl they saw in that hospital bed in Boston. Camryn is sunshine incarnate: bright-eyed, too kind, stubbornly hopeful, and despite everything, still believes in second chances. What she didn't plan on? Her new next-door neighbor just happens to be the gruff, quiet, unflinchingly calm ED attending who runs her shift with surgical precision... and dry quips that cut sharper than a scalpel.
Dr. Jack Abbot doesn't do distractions. Not from interns. Not from administration. And definitely not from the impossibly cheerful nurse who crash-landed into his backyard and, somehow, into his life. Guarded, fiercely competent, and more at ease in chaos than comfort, Jack prefers solitude-until Camryn. With her pastel mugs, man-hating cat, and maddening habit of calling him out with a smile, she worms her way into every corner of his neatly boxed-off world. She's not what he expected. And he's exactly what she wasn't ready for. But on the night shift, where everything broken comes through the door eventually, maybe they'll both learn healing doesn't always look like what you thought.
"You will meet together every Wednesday." She says with a smile, jotting down something on her clipboard.
I grab my dry erase marker and start to scribble furiously on my white board.
I flipped the side over to face the therapist and she read aloud.
"I don't even know who this person is."
"You can't isolate yourself, Wynter.
Friends are nice to have around, for encouragement, to laugh with, and
sometimes even cry with." She says and I shake my head vigorously.
"Wynter, you make yourself think you don't need anyone's help or company, because you are scared. You've been hurt too much, so you put this defensive wall up, that no one can break down." She says and I frown at her.
"It's time to let those walls down, honey." She pats my knee and I shake my head again.
"And this is the person that's going to help you do it."
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Wynter Adams hasn't spoken in eight years.
No one knows why, or what happened to make her this way.
She attends therapy and when she refuses or her behavior becomes destructive she stays over night at Mercies Children's Hospital.
When she's given an assignment from her therapist to spend her afternoon with another patient she refuses, but the therapist insists this is her cure.
He is her cure.
Asher Linn has been in intensive care and therapy for his temper, for running away from home five times, and for his alcoholism.
His therapist recommended some medication to help with his mood swings.
But Asher became sick of them and was immediately engulfed in the arms of depression.
Asher agrees to meet up with this 'other patient' just so he could escape the hospital.
But everything doesn't go according to plan.
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