The annual neighborhood pool party was something your family hosted every summer. Every year, the same people showed up with coolers, folding chairs, and enough food to feed an army.
Unable to sleep and unsettled by feelings you’ve tried to ignore for months, you make a reckless decision: at nearly midnight, you call Joel Miller, your father’s oldest friend. You tell yourself you just need someone to talk to, but the truth is harder to admit—you can’t stop thinking about him.
You are a relatively new night shift emergency physician at PTMC. You’re competent, stubborn, and calm under pressure, but you haven’t worked alongside Jack outside the hospital before.