She moves my IV stand around and fixes the tubes again. Then she throws the blankets back and moves my hospital gown around to make me more comfortable I assume. “You know I can’t tell if it’s all bunched up or not so it makes no difference if you fix it or not.”
“Well, to me it does. I like my patients to look well cared for, Jude. You know that. So how did that MRI go for you?”
“It was okay,” I say as she pulls the gown up and runs her hand over the bandage that’s wrapped around my dick.
I watch her hand move over the white bandage that resembles a hard dick and hate it that I feel nothing. Then her hand disappears underneath it and I know she’s checking the bandage around my balls.
“When the results come back and the doctor approves it, we’re going to take the bandages off and see how the healing is going. Won’t that be exciting?” she asks me.
Mercy walks in just as the nurse is moving her hand over my bandaged cock again and her mouth drops open. She clamps it closed quickly and I have to laugh.
The nurse turns to look at Mercy and smiles at her. “Good, you’re here. We’re going to get to check out how he’s healing in just a little while when the doctor gets here. That’s pretty exciting, isn’t it?”
Mercy nods and then I notice my mother is looking out the window like there’s a parade out there or something. I guess women don’t like watching men get physically inspected.
The nurse pulls the gown back down and the blanket back up to cover me. Then she excuses herself and Mercy can’t seem to meet my eyes as she asks, “Are you feeling okay, Jude?”
“As okay as I can get.” I look at her for a second and see a thin sheen of sweat covering her face. “Are you hot?”
“Huh?” she asks as she takes a seat in one of the extra chairs they’ve brought into the room since I always seem to have more than one visitor.
“You’re kind of pale and sweating,” I say. “Are you feeling okay?”
She nods. “I’m fine. Don’t worry about me.”
Dad looks at her then says, “Come on Loretta, let’s go get something to drink. I think Mercy could use a nice glass of iced tea. We’ll bring you one, honey. You sit tight.”
Mom and Dad leave the room and I’m left alone with Mercy. I hate being left alone with her now. I can’t stop looking at her long blonde hair as it’s pulled back in a ponytail and I want to pull that rubber band out of it and run my hands all through it and kiss the hell out of her plump red lips.
She licks them and I move my eyes up to find her looking at me. “You seem nervous,” I say. “Are your worried about the MRI results? Because what else could go wrong with me? No reason to worry.”
“No, I’m pretty sure the results are going to be good. I guess just watching another woman handling you sent something uneasy through me. I can’t say I enjoyed that at all.” She looks away from me and out the window.
“Well, you better get used to it as I’d guess it’s really about to get handled as they check it all out and change the bandages. If you can’t handle it, you can leave. But I can’t feel anything if that makes you feel any better about it,” I say.
It secretly thrills me that she’s not happy seeing another woman fondling me. It proves she still sees me as a man. And that makes me very happy to know!
Chapter 5
MERCY
Yet another doctor comes into Jude’s room just an hour after the MRI was done and he introduces himself to Jude, his parents, and me. “I’m Doctor Padron. I specialize in back injuries and I was asked to come look at your MRI results.”
Jude pulls himself up a bit and I go to move the pillow behind him and realize my breasts are all up in his face as he pushes at me. “For Christ’s sake, Mercy!”
“Oh! Sorry, Jude,” I say as I back away from him.
The nurse who was in the room earlier, checking his bandages, comes in and goes to the other side of him, lifting him some to position the pillow for him. She has obviously been trained how to do that without getting her tits all up in people’s faces as she does it.
The doctor waits for Jude to get all settled then continues, “So, as I was saying, the results I’ve seen let me know there is a good chance I can do surgery to give you a chance at mobility again. With the improved mobility, the nerves may repair themselves as they will be realigned again and it could occur. You could regain feeling, control, everything.”
“I could go back to normal?” Jude asks as he looks at his father then his mother then me.
His eyes linger on mine then he looks back at the doctor as the doctor says, “I don’t like to make any promises to my patients. But I have had success with this type of injury in other people. Especially people who are physically fit. The recovery period is relatively shorter when the patient has the ability to rehabilitate the muscles by exercising according to our guidelines.”
Jude’s face splits into a grin. “I don’t know why I haven’t thought about this at all. I know most everything about the human body and the muscle systems. I could make sure I exercise what needs to be built back up in order to regain everything.”
The nurse smiles at him and pats him on the shoulder. “Some good news, for you, Jude!”
The doctor turns what looks like a picture of bones toward us. There are two places where the bones look pulverized and he points them out. “I can replace these sections of destroyed bones with a new technology. We use the bones of pigs to make a fusion between the existing healthy bone. The pieces usually adhere to each end they’re joined to and mesh well with the human bones, creating a healthy structure once more.”
“This is amazing,” I say as I look at the picture and can easily picture the smashed bones being taken out and a whole bone being placed in the spot that would be left open.
Jude looks at me with the first real smile I’ve seen from him since this happened. “It is, isn’t it?”
Another doctor enters the room and introduces himself. “I’m the urologist who’s been assigned to your case. Doctor Wieland. I’m here to examine you, Mr. Hurst.”
Doctor Padron gives Jude a nod. “I’ll get the paperwork going for the surgery and have it given to you by the end of today. Then I’ll set up the operating room date and we’ll have everything scheduled. If you have any questions about anything, my personal cell number will be on the papers and you can call to ask me anything.”
Jude waves at the man. “Thanks, Doctor Padron! See you soon!” With a glance at his mother, he says, “Mom, could you and Dad leaves us while he does the personal area exam?”
His mother and father hurry out of the room, and I kind of feel like I should go too. I get up out of the chair. “I guess I’ll get out of here too.”
Jude holds out his hand and gestures to me. “I’d really like it if you stayed.”
A lump forms in my throat and all I can do is nod and go to his side and take his hand. I watch as the doctor comes and pulls back the blanket then the gown and the nurse goes to take some bandages and antiseptic out from underneath a cabinet in the room.
She hands the doctor a little pair of scissors and Jude turns his face toward me. “I can’t watch a pair of scissors down there. Hide my eyes, Mercy.”
I nod and pull his head in between my breasts as the doctor cuts the white bandage along the top of his penis. He pulls the sides of the bandage back as the nurse takes a cotton swab she’s doused with alcohol all over the red skin if the top part of his penis that looks wrinkled but fine. There are no cuts on it.
Then the bandage is completely pulled off and the doctor pulls the catheter out of the end. I grit my teeth as it looks painful but thankfully Jude can’t feel anything.
Jude looks up at me. “How’s it looking?”
“Pretty good,” I say. “You want to look?”
“Should I?”
I nod and he pulls his head away from my chest and looks down. “That doesn’t look so bad to me,” the doctor says as he lifts his penis and looks underneath it.
The nurse looks around and nods. “Looks great.”
I step over so I can see what they see and see two places where there are about five stitches each and the area looks to be healing well. “Are those going to dissolve or have to be pulled out?” I ask.
“They’ll dissolve,” the nurse says.
The doctor nods and smiles. “That looks good. Now for the scrotum.”
Jude looks up at me. “That’s where the fish swim.”
I smile at him. “Don’t worry about a thing.”
The doctor and nurse work together to get the bandage off that area and his facial expression is hard to read so I step back over and see what he’s uncovered. I try to hide my surprise from Jude as I see three lines of stitches that travel around his entire ball sack.
“The stitches look good,” the doctor says. “No signs of infection at all. When the stitches have all dissolved, which will be in about a week, I’ll need to get a semen sample from you to see if those fish are swimming. And in the meantime, I’ll be leaving the catheter out to see if you can urinate on your own.”
“I can’t feel when I need to go, doc,” Jude says.
“I know that,” he says. “You’ll have on an adult diaper. Your body can still function, you just can’t feel it. Even the semen I will get will come from stimulating your penis to produce it.”
“How can it work with no feelings?” he asks.
“Because it doesn’t have to have feelings to work. You are aware that a woman can get pregnant without experiencing an orgasm, right?” the doctor asks.
I nod and Jude seems to be getting excited about things for the first time since the accident. “So, sex is not out of my future? Babies are not out either?”
The doctor looks at Jude with concern. “Jude, your injuries have to heal. So don’t go trying anything. But sex in some form will be in your future. And even if ejaculation cannot occur and you have viable sperm, we can harvest it through an incision in the scrotum to get it.”
Jude’s face is speaking to me even if his mouth isn’t. I think we’ve reached a turning point!
Chapter 6
JUDE
Laying in my hospital bed, I look at Mercy as everyone leaves after I told them all the great news I got today. Her blue eyes are all sparkling and her smile is radiant. “I wish you could stay the night and cuddle with me,” I say as I pull her to sit down on the bed with me.
A nurse comes in with a clipboard and a stack of papers are on it. “Here are the forms you need to read and sign for the surgery by Doctor Padron. Just leave them on the table when you get through and I’ll pick them up when I come back later.” She looks at Mercy and smiles. “And stay as late as you want. I won’t tell on you.”
Mercy smiles at me as the nice nurse leaves us alone. Setting the clipboard aside, I say, “Can you do me a favor and hand me the little black box on the table over there?”
She hesitates then nods and gets up to get it. Her hand is shaking a little when she puts the box in mine. “Her you go.”
I pull her to sit back down, facing me and open the box. “I bought this for you and had planned on giving it to you that day when my world turned upside down. You stayed right by my side even when I told you not to. You proved to me that everything I thought about you before was right. You’re the strongest, smartest, most loyal person in my life. I was a fool for the way I’ve been treating you.”
“No, it’s really normal, Jude,” she says with a smile on her beautiful face.
“Well, normal or not, I’m sorry. And I’d like to know if you’d like to marry my mean old, fucked up, ass. You can say no if you want to. I’d completely understand.”
She laughs and holds out her hand, wiggling her ring finger. “If it fits, I’m yours.”
Taking it out of the box, I act as if I’m nervous it might not fit, even though I know it will. “If it doesn’t then what?” I ask as I hesitate at the tip of her finger.
She winks. “Let’s see what happens.”
I laugh and slide the ring onto her finger and she holds it up and looks at it. “That’s one very big diamond, Jude.”
“I picked it out to show you how big my love for you is,” I say as I take her hand and pull it to my mouth. I kiss her finger and look into her eyes. “So your answer is, yes, I know that. But can I hear you say it?”
“Yes,” she says then she leans in and kisses me gently. “Yes, Jude. I would be more than honored to become your wife.”
For the first time since that terrible day, I pull her into my arms and kiss her like we used to kiss. Our tongues flow around the others and we both moan with the sensation it seems we’ve both missed more than either of us even realized.
My hands move up her neck and I pull that damn rubber band out of her hair, releasing the ponytail so I can run my fingers through the soft waves. Our breathing gets heavy as our hands move all over each other. Then she ends the kiss with little kisses. “We can’t get you too excited, baby.”
“Not yet, but soon we can get me as excited as you want,” I tell her as I hold her tight. Now that we have that settled, let’s read this mountain of paperwork and get this all signed.”
She moves to sit on the bed beside me and picks up the clipboard. “Okay, these are a list of all the things that can go wrong. Great! They’ve left nothing out. Paralysis, hives, fever, and even death. So here, you go. Sign at the bottom of the page.”
I take the pen from the top of the clipboard and sign the bottom then look at her. “Hey, how about you and I get married before I get this surgery. That Pastor said he could do it. My father is good friends with a judge who would gladly backdate a marriage license for us. We could do it tomorrow. What do you say?”
“Do you really think we could get that all pulled together that quickly?” she asks as her eyes dance.
She’s excited and I think I have another, yes!
“I bet we can,” I say. “So, what do you say to becoming Mrs. Jude Hurst tomorrow?”
Her smile makes my heart fill with love and joy. “I say, yes. Yes, Jude Hurst! I’d love to become your wife tomorrow!”
She turns and I take her into my arms again and we seal the deal with another kiss. Our hearts are both pounding in our chests. I can feel hers as I hold her tight to my body.
I’ve been an idiot. I’ve had the perfect woman for me right here and waited to ask her to be with me forever. I was a fool but this fool is through feeling sorry for himself and I am taking things into my own hands.
Running my hand under her shirt, I place it over her heart then pull my mouth away from hers. “Mercy, I promise you that I’ll always guard your heart with everything I have in me. I’ll do my best not to hurt you. I’ll do my best to be here for you even if I’m not one hundred percent of the man I used to be.”
A tear falls down her face. “Jude, you’re one hell of a lot of man even when you aren’t one hundred percent. In my eyes, you’ll always be the complete package that you’ve always been. Nothing can take that away from you.”
“Mercy, I’m never going to let you go. Not ever. I love you so much, you have no idea.” I pull her in and kiss her again.
It’s odd the way I’m feeling. I have no sensation in my nether regions at all but my heart is aching with the love I feel for her. Aching with the need to hold her tight and kiss her sweet mouth.
Then I stop the kiss and push her back a little. “Do you think that door locks?”
“Huh?” she asks as she looks worried. “You can’t do anything, Jude.”
“My mouth works, doesn’t it?” I say with a smile. “And this bed lays back, doesn’t it? And if that door locks, I can kiss you somewhere else so I can show you how happy you’ve made me by accepting my proposal.”
Her eyes glow as she shakes her head. “Jude that’s not fair to you.”
“I want to. Let me. Go lock that door, lose those panties and come back over here so I can show you and myself that I’m still a man who can please a w
oman.”
She hesitates but only for a moment then she’s flying off the bed and hurrying to the door. “Ha! There is a lock! Watch out baby. Here I come!”
Chapter 7
MERCY
I lose more than my panties as I go back across the small hospital room to Jude. My fiancé!
His eyes go dark as I reach up under my dress and pull the pink panties off and drop the on the floor. Then I pull the dress off and finally my bra as I make my way to him. “I want to feel your strong hands all over me, Jude.”
“Damn, baby!” he groans. “You’re so fucking hot!”
As I get to him, I untie the back of his hospital gown and pull it off of him. “I want to feel your skin against mine.”
“You have me on fire, Mercy,” he says as his hands move over my bare breasts. “Your tits look more plump, I swear.” His mouth is hot as it takes one into it and his hand squeezes the other.
I climb over him, straddling him, careful to hover just above him. My sex is growing wet with excitement for his mouth to do to me what I know it can. It’s been too long since I’ve felt his mouth on my body and it’s craving to feel it.
Long, hard tugs he makes, making my stomach clench with each one. He trails his free hand down to my personal pleasure zone and finds my aching pearl and goes to work on it.
My breathing is so loud I can hear it echoing off the walls so I quiet myself. I have to be quiet or this will get interrupted and I do not want that!
When his finger goes inside me, I have to bite my lip not to scream with the feeling. I’ve wanted to feel him inside of me so badly. “Jude, yes,” I hiss as I move up and down, riding it as I hold his shoulders.
His mouth leaves my breast as he trails kisses up to my mouth then he takes my mouth with a hot kiss and runs his tongue along mine, stroking it the same way his finger is stroking me.
I move faster and faster until my body is erupting with an orgasm and he’s holding the back of my head with his free hand to keep our mouths together as I moan with the feeling.
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