{"id":12124,"date":"2024-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/?p=12124&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=12124"},"modified":"2024-03-18T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T20:49:12","slug":"doctor-patient-confidentiality-chapter-one-hundred-and-ninety-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/doctor-patient-confidentiality-chapter-one-hundred-and-ninety-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor-Patient Confidentiality: Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">I step into the shower stall, the sleek modern design exuding an air of luxury. My gaze shifts warily towards the wide showerhead, a conflicted feeling stirring within me. The last two days have been&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">I don&#8217;t even have the words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">The showerhead seems to glare back at me, its numerous nozzles like eyes. Peering. Waiting. With a trembling hand, I turn the faucet, slowly, like I&#8217;m afraid it will come alive and snap at my fingers. The initial spurt announces itself in a harsh whisper, like it&#8217;s chiding me for taking so long, but soon after the fall becomes tranquil. Like rain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>How fitting.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">It descends on me like a lowering curtain, washing away evidence of Frost&#8217;s analogous first session while simultaneously forcing me to relive it in vivid detail. The water collides with my sore muscles, gently beating down the tension, but the wet sensation evokes memories of yesterday&#8217;s events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>Dramatic Soprano. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">I&#8217;d almost said it. It was <em>Rechts <\/em>there, on the tip of my tongue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Why hadn&#8217;t I followed through?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;d been able not to. The water streams over my glasses, obscuring my vision, and the frames suddenly feel heavy on my face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>&#8220;Did you know that paperclips used to be handmade?&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">I close my eyes against his haunting voice, but can&#8217;t escape his arctic eyes. In my mind&#8217;s view, he stares at me even now, watching, assessing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">I swallow against the stab of desire in my core, the memory of his cock spearing me like a sharp echo. I blink rapidly, my throat tightening. Tears rise at the corners of my eyes, merging with the artificial rain falling to meet them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Guilt consumes me, my chest hollow with sadness. And then tight with&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>Want<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">No. No, that&#8217;s not true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>You liked it, <\/em>a whisper sneers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">The tears spill from my eyes, and I sniffle back a sob.<\/span><\/p>\nJoin us or log in to read more.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I step into the shower stall, the sleek modern design exuding an air of luxury. My gaze shifts warily towards the wide showerhead, a conflicted feeling stirring within me. The last two days have been&#8230; I don&#8217;t even have the words. The showerhead seems to glare back at me, its numerous nozzles like eyes. Peering. Waiting. With a trembling hand, I turn the faucet, slowly, like I&#8217;m afraid it will come alive and snap at my fingers. The initial spurt announces itself in a harsh whisper, like it&#8217;s chiding me&#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/doctor-patient-confidentiality-chapter-one-hundred-and-ninety-two\/\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"series":[99],"class_list":["post-12124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemporary-2","series-doctor-patient-confidentiality"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DPC-Wattpad-Header-1024x341.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DPC-Wattpad-Header-300x100.jpg","large":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DPC-Wattpad-Header-1024x341.jpg"},"ams_acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12124"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=12124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}