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Dr. Samira Mohan is having an episode of PTSD.
Jack knows all too well what that's like.
Or, a 5+1 in which Samira pieces her life back together. Oh, and maybe she'll fall in love along the way.
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"My father would have liked you," she says softly.
"You think so?"
"I know so. He valued people who listened more than they spoke. Who paid attention." She gestures at the flowers around their feet. "Who found beautiful places and sought to share them."
"And your mother?"
Samira laughs. "My mother would say you are a knight with no lands, no title of significance, and no political value. A waste of time for me to be even conversing with."
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Princess Samira has spent her life being the spare: invisible when it's convenient, controlled when it's not. But she didn't account for Sir Jack Abbot, a knight with nothing to offer but his sword, his life, and the way he looks at her like she's the only person in the world
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She wants him so badly her teeth ache. She’ll never say it out loud. It will eat her alive. One day, when she dies and a pathologist cracks her chest (nipples to navel is no man’s land), they’ll see a heart calcified with the weight of these fatal fantasies. It would make an excellent case study, she thinks, ruefully. They’ll write articles about her– 29-year-old female, South Asian, presented as healthy but upon further examination, was deeply ill. Poor, poor Samira Mohan, besotted with her handsome, brooding, married attending. She died how she lived– desperate, wanting, and alone.
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Or, Samira has a crush. But that's putting it lightly.
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5 times Jack Abbot has wanted to be the father of a daughter + 1 time Samira Mohan makes him one.
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Samira and Jack had sex at medical conference in New York almost four years ago. They did not exchange last names, or indeed any other pertinent biographical information.
Dr Samira Mohan, intern, has a three year old daughter.
Unsurprisingly, these two facts are connected.
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- Part 1 of butter knife