Jake bagged the patient while Cristina started an IV. The man coughed, gagged, then took a ragged breath. “He’s coming around,” Jake said.
Jake raised an eyebrow. “You okay, Miller? You’re flushed.”
Later, after the patient was loaded into the second ambulance, Cristina found Lena sitting on the curb, shaking. She knelt down. EroticSpice 21 08 24 Cristina Miller Paramedic
Cristina caught her wrists—gently, firmly. “Look at me. Breathe. I need you to step back so I can work.”
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The city never slept, and neither did Cristina Miller. At 34, she was the best paramedic in the sector—steady hands, a sharp mind, and a voice that could calm a cardiac arrest patient mid-spiral. But tonight, the air in the ambulance was thick with something else: the memory of a touch that hadn't happened.
“You did good,” Cristina said softly. “You called in time.” Jake bagged the patient while Cristina started an IV
They arrived to chaos. A man in his forties, blue-lipped, barely breathing. Cristina moved on autopilot: airway, sternal rub, naloxone. But the patient’s girlfriend was hysterical, clawing at Cristina’s vest. “Save him! Please!”
“Just the heat,” she lied, and drove into the neon night, already composing the text she’d send after shift: “You still breathing?” Jake raised an eyebrow
But Cristina didn’t hear him. She was still holding Lena’s gaze, the pulse in her own throat hammering. The moment stretched—fever-hot, intimate. Then the sirens of the backup unit snapped it.
Her partner, Jake, was already pulling into traffic. He didn’t notice the slight tremor in her fingers as she checked the narc box. He didn’t know that three hours ago, during a lull, she’d let herself imagine something forbidden—his rough hands on her hips, the antiseptic smell of the rig mixing with sweat and salt.