Chapter 1
EPOV
Walking back into my office after a month off work felt amazing. I plopped down into my chair turning on my computer ready to get back to work. Do not get me wrong I loved my sister, and her husband, who was my best friend Emmett, but one can only handle so much of being around them humping one another like a dog in heat.
We took a month vacation every year since Charlie and Renee passed away 7 years ago in a car accident. One week back in Forks was spent with mine and Rose's parents, to visit the cemetery, and help Emmett mourn. Which then turned into us spending another week trying to find the mysterious Isabella Swan. Everything always turned up short. It was as if she disappeared into thin air. It was the night before her college graduation. She finished her bachelor's degree in two and a half years, already been accepted into medical school fast track program at UW, and we were all meeting up for dinner as a celebration when we got the call about the accident. We all rushed to the Emergency Room to be told the were DOA. The strongest woman I ever met completely lost it in the middle of the ER falling to the ground, Emmett and I had to carry her outside. Then the scariest moment that still haunts me to my bones happened, like a light switch, she stopped crying, pushed away from all of us, and said she was going home to her fiancé Jake. Emmett, Rose, our parents, and I just stood there just staring at one another not sure what just happened with her. That should have been our sign she had completely withdrawn. That was the last anyone has heard from Isabella Swan supposedly. I still do not believe that dog of a fiancé or her supposed best friend because 7 months later, I found out they were married and had a newborn son. Emmett still has not figured it out, or he is just in denial. Who am I to make my best friend go through more pain than he has already been through?
I shake my head trying to clear my thoughts. I have to be on my A game in this profession; a second distracted could be the difference between life and death. I laugh at my joke now. Since my promotion, I have been stuck more at a desk than being able to do what I really loved, and that was taking care of kids. I hope that it would be better now that I started delegating and created a new position Chief of Staff for our Emergency Department. I texted Alice so I could have her come to my office and give me the lowdown and Dr. Biers since he started right after I left for my vacation.
"God I hope he's not a pretentious jerk," I mutter to myself. He is supposed to be one of the best of the best when it comes to Emergency situations, served two and a half tours overseas running as the trauma surgeon, then something happened I guess getting him honorably discharged early. I was told PTSD is a possibility and structure is best for Dr. Biers but I can do that. I would hire anyone with such a glowing recommendation from the world famous Dr. Peter Whitlock. Now too bad he wanted to retire, I would love to have him on as a trauma surgeon. Running my fingers through my hair again, I start to realize how much paperwork I truly had to catch up on from vacation when there was a knock on my door.
"Come in Alice."
"Edward! We have missed you. How was your trip? You are going to love Izzy, I mean Dr. Biers, she is AMAZING! She has this confidence about her and already has the department running smoother than ever." Alice rambles fast.
"Woah, slow down Pixie, the trip was… wait HER? Dr. Biers is a She. I thought Dr. Biers was a male?" I start look for her paperwork scrambling when Alice clears her throat.
"Excuse me?! And that makes a difference why? Rose is a doctor, actually known as the top OBGYN in Washington State. Maybe I should give her a call."
"Wait... no I didn't mean it that way," I stammer not wanting to face the wrath of Rose, which I am all too familiar with being her twin. "Just from her job history I assumed."
"Well you know what they say what happens when you ASSume right?" Her playful nature comes back, but I know the pointed look she is giving me is telling me I am toeing a very thin line.
"Yes Alice, It makes an Ass out of me." I groan while rubbing my face.
"Okay, before I was rudely interrupted," I was smart enough to look guilty knowing I will still probably get an ass chewing from Rose later, " Dr. Biers, or Izzy as everyone calls her has been a Godsend. The patients and parents love her. She's put the bitch trio in their place," I spit out my water I was currently drinking, coughing up a storm.
Alice raised an eyebrow. "You're talking about the Denali sister's right? Tanya, Kate, and Irina?" She nods, and I just shake my head. "That explains why I had so many missed calls and texts from Tanya," I groan.
"I don't know what you ever saw in her," Alice smirks knowing exactly what I saw was huge tits, and a bubble Ass.
"Yea, well they had it coming for far too long, and I couldn't do it without them trying to say some sexual assault in it or some crap like that."
She nods, "But, she seems very reserved, I've invited her out for drinks a few times, and so has Angela, but she just says no. And she picks up all the extra shifts she can. Oooh and she does seem a bit jumpy to loud bangs and seems to get caught into her head from time to time, but never when with a patient. It's like as long as she has direction she's fine."
I nod, debating whether to tell her or not, knowing she needs someone else in her corner I do, "Yea, Peter mentioned she has PTSD from two and a half tours overseas. Something happened making her be released early. He said when she has her moments she just has to have someone take control and keep her line. Set boundaries, and tell her what she can and cannot do."
"This explains so much, she must be the other girl him and Aunt Char were talking about he took on as a sub!" Alice exclaims a little too excited. I try to feign innocence but I know she is not buying it so she just continues with her story. "He had a submissive who he only punished when she got out of line. Their contract was only for her health or something. Something happened to her original Dominant and she could not function a normal daily life without the boundaries. No sex, nothing. Just more of a father role I guess you would say."
The mysterious Dr. Biers is getting more and more interesting. I wander what happened in her short life to make her need the structure so bad. I get up not able to curb my curiosity anymore. "Well how about you introduce me to the famous Dr. Biers." With that, we head out to the floor.
