Chapter 7

When Jake and the boys turned up, they found Dale in his office chair at the table.

He had fresh coffee on the table and had already started work. Jake noted he seemed in an excellent mood this morning. As the morning progressed, he noted Dale rubbing his legs. “You okay, Dale?” he asked.

“Yeah, Terry did something last night, and my legs have been pins and needles all morning,” he said.

“Do you need to go lie down or something?” Jake asked in concern.

“Nah, Terry had organised for Doctor Greco to pop in and to check me over at about one o’clock. I may have to go to the clinic tomorrow, but we will see what he says. We think when Terry readjusted my hips last night, she removed some pressure we hadn’t identified off my spinal column,” he replied.

Jake nodded, and the men got back to work. When there was a knock at the door, Jake got up and let the doctor enter. He pushed Dale down to his room on his office chair and watched as he pulled himself up onto the edge of the bed.

Dale lifted his legs onto the bed and dropped back onto his back. Jake left so the doctor could examine him. He didn’t close the door entirely and stayed just outside the door to listen as he was worried about his friend.

“Terry said that you were feeling more activity in your legs, Dale,” the doctor said.

Dale grinned at him. “Not just the legs, Doc,” he said.

“Oh! What else has changed?” the doctor asked with interest.

“My cock is working,” Dale said with a big grin on his face.

“You are feeling sensations in it?” the doctor asked, intrigued.

“More, much more. I had my first hard-on, and it damn near blew my brains out when I ejaculated,” Dale responded with glee.

Jake had put his hand over his mouth to stop from laughing. He could see where a bloke not having had a hard-on for nearly eight months would be a reason to be happy when he did.

“Did your penis feel normal when you masturbated?” the doctor asked. Jake also waited for the answer.

“Umm, well, I didn’t jack-off. Terry sucked me off, and I know that felt better than any blowjob I have ever had in my life,” Dale replied, getting hard at the thought of Terry’s mouth being on his cock again.

‘Shit,’ thought Jake. He had already guessed that Dale thought he was in love with Terry, but it wasn’t a good idea telling the doctor that his paid carer had sex with him. The tone of the doctors ‘I see,’ didn’t bode well, Jake thought.

Dale also picked-up on the doctor’s disapproval. He thought frantically of how to save the situation. “No Doc it wasn’t like that. She didn’t do anything to me that I didn’t want her to,” he tried to explain.

“Even so, it is not very ethical for her to get sexually involved with her patient,” Doctor Greco said with disapproval.

He had noted Dale’s reaction to thinking about what Terry had done to him, and it was quite evident that the man’s cock was indeed working. She must have done an excellent job if that was his reaction.

Doctor Greco watched as Dale’s legs also moved in agitation, he had not seen this much movement in Dale’s legs before. Dale was unconsciously jiggling his right knee and foot. Whatever Terry had done, Dale’s nerve endings were firing.

The Doctor suspected that with intense physio, Dale would walk again. Terry had done an excellent job getting his muscles toned, and once he reminded his brain how they should be used, he should have little difficulty. It hadn’t been a year since the accident, so the chances were excellent that he would recover.

Doctor Greco was of two minds, however, if he should intervene or not. He suspected if he removed Terry, then Dale would go backwards. The bloke thought he was in love with her. He had seen several companion relationships ending badly when the patient became fixated on the carer.

While he was more in charge of the physical rehabilitation, he couldn’t ignore the mental aspect. He would have to talk to Terry. Resigned Doctor Greco said, “I’ll talk to Terry, and it will be up to her if she stays or not.”

“I don’t want you to be set backwards, but you must realise that the attachment you feel for her is not love. You have been sharing a close bond for several months, and it is easy to mistake that for love because you depend on her.”

“Terry didn’t want to take you on because she has had this very situation happen to her before. That patient died on her, and she took it awfully hard. She has a lot of empathy for her charges and takes their health and well-being to heart. I don’t want to see her hurt again.”

Dale wanted to tell him that he did love her and would do anything for her, but he knew the doctor wouldn’t believe him. He was saddened to hear that Terry had lost a patient, but he didn’t think the two situations were the same at all.