Total pages in book: 71
Estimated words: 72856 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 364(@200wpm)___ 291(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 72856 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 364(@200wpm)___ 291(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
She’d been there for a little over two weeks, and I knew I wouldn’t be liking her any time soon. Especially not when she tried to hit on my…Tai.
I walked up to the nurse’s station and turned to Linda, our charge nurse.
“I’m taking my lunch now, okay?”
Linda nodded and I turned to Tai.
“You want to go grab a bite to eat?” I asked.
He nodded curtly.
I brushed past Tessa, the Tai stealer, and walked next to him as we exited the floor.
He didn’t speak until we were well away from where we’d started.
He stopped me in front of the chapel, and I started to get nervous.
“What’s going on?” I asked.
He looked up at the ceiling, then back down to me.
“Your mom had a heart attack.”
***
“I’m fine!” My mother said for the millionth time. “Back off and let me clean myself!”
I placed the rag down very gently, glaring at my mother the entire time.
“You had a heart attack, woman!” I bellowed. “You’re not fine!”
“Jesus, save me from my nurse daughter who thinks she knows everything. Well, let me tell you something, little girl, I’ve been washing my own body for many years. I don’t need you to do it! Now- oh, thank God! Get her out of here!” My mother ordered¸ looking over my shoulder as she finished her rant.
I turned slowly to find Tai standing behind me…almost directly behind me.
Like I could reach out and touch him-behind me.
I raised my brows at him. “Did you need something?”
He’d been nice earlier…but he’d been distant. Almost as if he’d reluctantly come to see me because he felt some sort of duty to do so because he knew me, but not because he actually wanted to tell me.
And he’d left me here with my mother who hadn’t stopped bitching since I’d come into her room four hours before.
Which made me even more annoyed than I had been.
“Just wanted to check to see how she was doing,” he said. “I brought a patient in, and I was curious.”
I frowned.
“She’s fine. They gave her the clot busting meds, and she’s been doing well since she came in,” I said. “They’re going to run further tests tomorrow to ascertain the damage to her heart, but they believe it was only a mild heart attack with minimal, if any, lasting damage.”
His shoulders lost some of their rigidness.
“That’s good to hear,” he said, then turned to my mother. “I’m on shift for another two hours, but when I get done, I’ll come back and get her. Do you think you can hang on that long, or do I need to send my brother?”
My mouth dropped open.
“I’m not some child that you can pass around…”
That comment fell on deaf ears, though, as he only had eyes for my mother as she spoke after releasing the most put upon sounding sigh I’d ever heard from her.
“I suppose,” she said, “that I can wait another two hours. It’ll be nice to have a break.”
If my mouth could have, it would’ve dropped open even further. However, it just couldn’t, and I could do nothing but stand there, mouth hanging open, blinking like I had a neurological condition, as they made plans about what he was going to do with me once he had me.
“Alright, Judith. I’ll come see you in a few hours. Try not to stress too much,” Tai said, backing out of the room.
His dark, beautiful eyes glanced up at me, and my breath caught.
Butterflies took flight in my belly, and my heart started to race.
“Be good,” he mouthed.
My lips pinched together in affront, but before I could give him a piece of my mind, he slipped back out the door, and I watched his sexy ass as he did.
“So, let’s discuss apologies,” my mother said.
I glared at her, and she threw the wet cloth at me, slapping me upside the head with it.
I sighed and took the rag, placing it on the rolling bedside table that already held a basin of soapy water and two more rags just like the one that she’d thrown at me.
“I’m sorry, mom. But you just scared the absolute crap out of me. No more working, and I think, instead of moving into a new place of my own, I’ll move in with you, and we can share the bills. That sound okay?” I asked hopefully.
I didn’t want my mom alone anymore. At least not anytime soon.
After I saw that she was okay and could take care of herself, then I’d move to my own place.
Luckily, I hadn’t put the deposit down on the house I’d originally intended on renting.
“That sounds fine to me. But you need to stay out of my way. And don’t complain about my fabric hoard,” she said, pointing at me with a stiff finger.
I held up my hands in surrender.
“Will you let me help you organize it?” I asked hopefully.