', '4-... ', '5-... ' Breathe!'1-... ', '2-... ', '3-... ', '4-... ', '5-... ' Breathe!As he began to press down on her diaphragm again, he saw her ch...st rise slightly by itself. Not daring to hope, he pressed his head down between her breasts, his ear against her shattered breastbone.'I can hear her heartbeat!' he realized, and let out a "Whoopee", overjoyed that she was alive.If her blood was circulating, she could heal herself. Overcome with emotion, he sat there and wept. As she put it, to keep my suffering within manageable limits. She teased me that with her and Francis both being medical professionals, they had a duty of care to make sure I didn’t die of neglect or a heart attack tonight.As I waited for the first text to arrive from Sue, I wondered how the other members of the group would respond to seeing Francis and Sue flirting and making out. As far as we knew, no-one in the hospital had an inkling of the budding romance between the handsome widowed. I took my half-drunk mug of coffee with me when I went to our room, where I sat sipping it and jittered. They were expecting me to parade around starkers in front of Margaret? Whatever happened to the modest, shy, introverted young woman I fell in love with? Not to mention her mother. This was probably the last thing I was expecting.Rose-Marie came in. "Are you going to cower in here all day?" Probably," I said, "at least until your mother goes to work."Rose-Marie giggled. "It's her day off.. "Here goes", Ithought as I reached down and slowly pulled my sweater up and over myhead, dropping it to the floor in front of me. Jeff's eyes widened and hestarted to breathe a little faster as he saw the full cups of my bra witha little soft white flesh swelling out over the tops of the cups. I gavehim several seconds to enjoy the view before I reached up behind my back,unsnapped my bra, and let it fall to the floor as well. Jeff's eyeswidened even more at the sight of my breasts and he.