Handle With Care
An interactive medical romance · with Julian Mercer
You asked your surgeon what would happen if he weren't your surgeon, and by the next morning he had transferred your care.
Your choices shape how Julian responds.
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- Love interest
- Julian Mercer
- Genre
- Medical romance
- Length
- ~40 minutes
Tropes
About Handle With Care
Dr Julian Mercer is the most composed man you've ever met. Steady hands. Measured voice. Not one wasted word.
So you asked him — half joking, and not joking at all — what would happen if he weren't your surgeon.
By the next morning, he had transferred your care.
He hasn't said why. He doesn't have to. He isn't your surgeon any more.
And a man that careful does nothing by accident.
“I waited until I wasn't your surgeon. I can wait longer. I'd rather not.”
A taste of the story
From Chapter 1
Julian closes his eyes for one second.
He is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in complex joint instability and reconstruction in connective-tissue disorders. Which is a clinical way of saying he has put parts of me back where they belong more times than either of us enjoys admitting.
He repaired my right shoulder two years ago. He reconstructed my left ankle last year. Last winter, after I dislocated my left shoulder reaching behind the sofa for a charger, he stabilized that one too—and threatened to buy me an inflatable hamster ball.
I demanded cupholders.
Now he checks my fingers and wrist.
JULIAN
“Can you feel that?”
“Yes.”
His hand is warm around mine.
It should not matter.
It matters so much I resent him for it.
JULIAN
“Your hand is cooler than the other side.”
“That sounds ominous.”
JULIAN
“It sounds like I want imaging before anyone tries to reduce this.”
The ER resident starts to mention sedation.
Julian looks at him once.
JULIAN
“CT angiogram first. She’s hypermobile, she has prior stabilization on that side, and the humeral head is sitting too low. The arteries will show on the dye. The nerves won’t, and they run exactly where that is sitting, and her hand is cold.”
He says it calmly, but his thumb is still over my pulse.
I know his calm now.
Calm means worried.
“Hey,” I say. “Is this bad?”
For once, he does not give me the polished doctor answer.
JULIAN
“I don’t know yet.”
The honesty lands harder than reassurance.
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Questions
Is Handle With Care free to read?
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Who is the love interest in Handle With Care?
Julian Mercer. Handle With Care is an interactive medical romance where your choices shape what happens with Julian, and the story remembers every one.
What kind of story is Handle With Care?
An interactive medical romance built on he falls first, protective hero and forbidden romance. You make the choices, and later chapters remember them.
How long is Handle With Care?
About 40 minutes of reading, in chapters you can read at your own pace.