Wrapped up, p.1
Wrapped Up, page 1
part #1 of MetroGen Scandals Series
Wrapped Up
A Steamy Holiday Romance
MetroGen Scandals
Carina Alyce
Are you ready for sexy firefighters, dirty doctors, and hot cops?
Welcome to MetroGen Downtown!
If this is the first book you're reading of mine, you are about to read a fun set of sexy holiday shorts of some of your favorite MetroGen couples working their way through the holiday season and culminating at the New Year's Eve Firefighter Ball. It's full of steamy scenes, drama, and naughtiness exclusive to this holiday novella.
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Contents
Your Free Gift Is Waiting
What came before
Cast of Characters
Also by Carina Alyce
Part I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Part II
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Part III
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Also by Carina Alyce
Afterword
About Carina Alyce
Your Free Gift Is Waiting
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Copyright © 2022 by Carina Alyce
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What came before
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Unchecked
Stella Magi, ENT surgeon, might have been dating three different guys in Unchecked and is prego!
Tempted
Cassie and Fabian get their second chance at love after waiting three years for the right moment.
Matched
Nora and Barak overcome her current job as a medical student and his past job which might have been ‘assassin.’
Wildcat
Leslie and Trevor find love between a female firefighter and a Super Bowl winning NFL defensive lineman.
Sampled
College student Vandy and Firefighter Royce take the step from new adult fling to real long distance couple.
Guarded
Undercover police officer Sean has to guard pediatrician Lillian very closely without revealing his identity.
Cast of Characters
From Unchecked
Stella Magi – ENT surgeon, unsure of who baby daddy is
Alexander Casserty – Neurosurgeon, ex-boyfriend #1
Marcus Doyle – ER doctor, ex-boyfriend #2
Alfred ‘Joel’ Glazier – Orthopedic surgeon, ex-boyfriend #3
From Tempted
Cassie Odon – MetroGen ER desk clerk, dating Fabian
Fabian Santos – Lieutenant at Firehouse 7, dating Cassie
From Matched
Nora Borenstein – third year medical student
Barak Perez – firefighter-trainee to be, possibly retired assassin, married to Nora
From Sampled
Vandy Patel – accounting student in Chicago, dating Royce
Royce Murphy – firefighter at Firehouse 19, dating Vandy long-distance
From Wildcat
Leslie McClunis – Chief of Battalion 2, married to Trevor
Trevor McClunis – former Super Bowl wining defensive end, retired
From the Rest of MetroGen Downtown
Sean Murphy – police officer, Royce’s brother, dating Lillian since Guarded
Lillian Hernandez – pediatrician at MetroGen, met Sean on Halloween
Angela Perkins – cardiology fellow, star of High Risk
Elizabeth Kandal – general surgeon, Stella’ second-cousin-in-law
Kayla Varma – pulmonologist, Elizabeth’s sister
Kyra Yates – nurse-paramedic, Cassie’s best friend, married since Roulette
Raj Patel – Vandy’s brother, third-year medical student
Charlene ‘Charlie’ Layton – Police Sergeant Second Precinct
James Haskell – Chief of Battalion 8, fell in love in Burn Card
Caroline Haskell – ex-judo player, pregnant, married to James in Burn Card
Jared Pickford – Aide to Battalion Chief Haskell
To the ‘real’ Anna who definitely enabled my love life
Also by Carina Alyce
MetroGen Forbidden Love Duets
Tempted: A Steamy Second Chance Firefighter Romance
Sampled: A Steamy New Adult Medical Romance
Smolder: A Steamy Forbidden Firefighter Romance
High Risk: A Steamy Forbidden Medical Romance
Inferno: A Steamy Forbidden Firefighter Romance
Compromised: A Steamy Forbidden Medical Romance
MetroGen After Hours
Live Wire: A Steamy Friends to Lovers Firefighter Romance
Wildcat: A Steamy Football Romance
Volatile: A Steamy Reformed Bad Boy Romance
Burn Card: A Steamy Vegas Firefighter Romance
Roulette: A Steamy Vegas Medical Romance
Sentinel: A Steamy Grumpy Sunshine Medical Romance
MetroGen Kiss and Tell
Unchecked: A Steamy Love Triangle Medical Romance
Guarded: A Steamy Secret Identity Medical Romance
Disciplined: A Steamy Daddy’s Girl Medical Romance
MetroGen Lifelines
Embers: A 9/11 Romantic Suspense
Matched: A Medical Romantic Suspense
MetroGen Scandals
Wrapped Up: A Steamy Holiday Romance
Anthologies
Heroes with Heat and Heart 1
Heroes with Heat and Heart 2
Heroes with Heat and Heart 3
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Wrapped Up
Phrasal past tense verb
To have enclosed a object in a covering
To have concluded a specific event, e.g., they wrapped up the surgery in time for the next case.
-Netter’s Medical Dictionary
Part One
Holiday Week
Chapter 1
December 23
At Casa de Borenstein
“Come here often?” the beautiful shirtless man greeted Nora Bornstein-Perez at her door.
“I’m pretty sure I live here,” Nora said.
“Really? Me too.” He pulled her through the doorway.
The man who happened to be married to her was definitely an excellent kisser. He was excellent in other ways as well, but she had just gotten out of the hospital.
“How was your day, ?” he called her his ‘wife’ in Hebrew.
“Fabulous, tomorrow is my last day of psychiatry. I can stop wearing the wig.”
“I told you you never had to wear a wig,” Barack Perez said. Married Orthodox Jewish women covered their hair. Ashkenazi women tended to wear wigs and Sephardic women used head wraps.
“I know, but the psych patients view anything they see out of place with fear.” She unpinned the uncomfortable thing and set it on its wig stand.
“I thought it was a good Hanukkah present,” he said.
Nora’s family had bought it for her s
He helped her untwist her hair and immediately twisted it around his hands. He kissed down her ear and neck. “I missed you while you were out saving the world.”
She returned the kiss and tried to make conversation. “What did you do all day?”
“The usual, shoveled snow for thirty people, ran five miles, worked out.” He pointed to the pile of weights that had taken over the corner of her living room. The weights and a duffel bag were basically the only thing he’d brought when he moved in a month ago.
“Do you always time your work-out for when I get home?” Sweat streaked his skin, making him look even tanner than usual.
“Possibly.” He hung up her coat for her and spun in a little circle. “Do you like it?”
“Very manly.” She needed to get out of her hospital clothes and shower herself.
“I got you something. It’s a present.” He pointed to their dining room table where a small, wrapped package sat.
“You got confused about which holidays we celebrate?” Some of her Israeli acquaintances missed the nuances of Christmas in the US.
“They’re late because they came from Israel.”
She tore the paper away and found about fifteen scrub caps in a wide array of colors and patterns. “For the OR?”
“OB is your next rotation, and you said you were hoping it’s the one you’ll do for real.”
She couldn’t help it, she kissed him, sweaty body and all. “You are the best new husband ever.”
“Actually, you don’t know how good I am yet. Since our honeymoon is delayed until after your third year, I got you something even better. Dr. Feldsher invited me to visit Labor and Delivery after Shabbat ends on New Years. I heard there was an incident.”
She’d heard about this from Raj, her medical student teammate. “Someone stole a baby during Thanksgiving weekend.”
“Yes, so Dr. Feldsher wanted me to eyeball things from the cook’s perspective.”
“Obviously. Makes perfect sense,” she said dryly. Feldsher probably wanted his expertise when her staff was fewer people.
“So, while I examine her food services, she’s the night float attending. She said you could come along and deliver a baby.”
“She’d let me deliver a baby!” Nora was flabbergasted.
“With OB in January, she’d be letting you deliver babies. You’ll be a few days early.”
“I can deliver a baby! I have to study all the lectures. And I get to deliver a baby!” She embraced him and stopped. “You are really sweaty.”
“And manly. Want to help me get clean?”
“I guess studying can wait.”
Chapter 2
December 23
At Casa de Kandal
Dr. Stella Magi should have known it would come to this.
Private humiliation in front of her girls for her accidental pregnancy.
Elizabeth sent the kids to bed early and had a full spread of shot glasses and tequila out for herself, her sister Kayla, and their friend Angela Perkins.
“What’s going on?” Angela sat down at the table.
“One question, one shot.” Elizabeth slid a full shot glass to Angela. They waited for Angela to take it before answering.
“Stella is in big trouble,” Kayla said. Stella sipped her usual—a glass of water—and rubbed her stomach. Angela, no dummy, picked up on the implication pretty quickly.
Angela slammed the shot down. “You’re pregnant?”
“I think that counted as a question. I would say it was a declarative sentence but also a question. What do you think, Kayla?” Elizabeth handed Angela another shot.
“I say it qualifies as a question, and you asked a question,” Kayla said.
“What was my question?” Elizabeth said.
“That’s your second question. Two shots,” Kayla called out.
“Crap,” Elizabeth said. She took two tequila shots in a row. Angela choked hers down again. Stella imagined those burned going down.
“Yes, I’m pregnant,” Stella said. “Pregnant. I’m due in June.”
“How could you do this?” Kayla yelled at Stella. “We thought you were being careful!”
Elizabeth gave Kayla another shot. “Hey, that was a rhetorical question. I know how she did it.”
“As always, I believe it’s the principle of the thing,” Elizabeth said. “Do you have any more questions, Angela?”
“That was a question,” Angela said. Elizabeth shook her head and had another tequila shot. “You’re kind of small and skinny. Don’t you think you should slow down?”
“That was a question.” Kayla gave Angela another shot.
Angela took her third shot in quick succession. “She was dating one-legged neurosurgeon. Not ER guy or old ortho guy.”
“He’s not old. He’s younger than ER guy,” Stella tried to defend Glazier. He wasn’t nearly as old as people thought.
“Why is he ‘old guy’ again?” Angela asked. She reached out her hand and grabbed another shot.
“Because he’s bald.” Stella got it from the table and brought glasses of water to them. “Start drinking this. I won’t have to take care of your hungover asses tomorrow.”
“Tell her what the big problem is,” Kayla said and folded her arms across her chest. “She’s not with one-legged neurosurgeon anymore.”
Stella came back with a whole bag of pretzels and laid them on the table. “Start munching. Need some carbs without alcohol. Tequila matches great with salt.”
“You’re dodging the question.” Elizabeth waved her finger at Stella.
“That wasn’t a real question. It was a statement.” She took the tequila bottles off the table, wishing she could clean her life up the same way she was clearing the table. “There’s only a few shots left so each of you can ask me two questions.”
Angela eyed the shot glasses with distaste and asked the question, “Who is the father?”
“Yes, who’s the father?!” Kayla half yelled, taking her shot.
“Are you going to ask that?” Stella drank her shot of water and asked Elizabeth the question.
“No, I know you don’t know who the father is. I want to know which one of them would be better in bed,” Elizabeth leered.
“She doesn’t know,” Angela stated in clear disbelief. “Screw the questions. I just need another shot.” She took her last shot.
Stella was a little impressed by Angela’s commitment. She’d taken six shots in less than an hour.
“Tell me you use condoms. Tell me you use condoms every time,” Kayla mumbled, drunkenly, farther gone than Angela or Elizabeth.
“Do you want the truth or the lie?” Stella knew she’d never live this down.
