Ruby, 29 bytes
->s,n{s[0]+s[n+1...~n]+s[-1]}
Very straightforward.
~ trick stolen from Sp's answer, which saves a byte over s[n+1..-2-n]. (It works because ~n is -1-n in two's-complement, and then ... is an exclusive range.)
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