He was suddenly too close and she was having a hard time breathing. Frozen in her seat, Jaydin could only watch like a person trapped within her own body looking through the mirror of her own eyes as he invaded her personal space. She didn’t even have time to think about<i>why</i>he was acting this way when her thoughts were concentrated on the fact that he<i>was</i>at all. It made no sense. She didn’t know how to react. So her body decided it would do… nothing.<br/><br/>Willingly or not, she subjected to his advances and remained rooted in her seat, her derriere glued to the basic leather chair. Nodding finally, Jaydin took the pen from the doctor with a shaking hand. Her skin made brief contact with his, sending heat shooting from her spine up her back.<i>He was too close. </i><br/><br/><i>“Now sign the papers, Jaydin,”</i>he said.<br/><br/>She paused for a confused second, realizing she’d have to reach<i>around</i><i>him</i>for the paperwork.<i>Just do it</i>, Jaydin scolded herself. If she couldn’t do something as simple as that—awkward or not—how was she ever going to be able to work in a hospital where personal boundaries were crossed all the time out of necessity?<br/><br/>With cheeks that were redder still, Jaydin leaned forward, her breast nudging against Dr. Dhaal’s knee as she signed her life away on the dotted lines. Never had she felt more like a schoolgirl in her entire life. How was she going to be able to get through a day with him if she couldn’t even pull herself together for five minutes.<br/><br/>He moved away and she could breathe again—until her heart stopped.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#666600">“H-Health check?”</span>she repeated, her voice barely above a whisper? As in a<i>physical</i>? Please, God,<i>no</i>, not a physical. Had that been in the contract she had just signed?<i>How had she missed that? </i>She had read it twice—thoroughly. Hadn’t she? Now she was scrambling to recall anything it said at all. The idea of being practically naked… in front of him…—<i>wait!</i>she realized. It would be a nurse! Yes… she was panicking for no reason. Oh, thanks<i>goodness</i>,<i>of course</i>it would be a nurse.