An Ill Wind by Monette Michaels

Author:Monette Michaels [Michaels, Monette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Monette Draper
Published: 2017-01-15T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Three weeks later, April 15th

Elk City, Idaho

Fee locked the door behind her last patient of a very long day. The small rural clinic was a bare bones satellite operation of the medical group that staffed the Grangeville Medical Center. Serving a sparsely populated area of Idaho, the clinic was only open three days a week— Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It boasted a staff of three—Fee, Pia, and a receptionist who doubled as bookkeeper, plus a cleaning crew that did the heavy duty cleaning after clinic hours ended. Prior to her arrival, the Elk City clinic had been closed for over a year due to the lack of a doctor willing to live in the middle of nowhere. For that year, the population in the area had driven the two hours to Grangeville for their medical needs.

Her arrival had been celebrated by the locals, and her clinic days had been full ever since.

“Thank God, it’s Friday,” she muttered to the empty reception area that looked as if a mini-cyclone had hit it. Actually, one had—in the form of two-year-old twin boys who’d been brought in by their much-harried mother for some routine shots and a check-up.

Chuckling at the memory of the toddlers’ non-stop jabbering and antics, Fee began picking up toys and tossing them into a much-abused toy box. Cute little buggers. With their dark-hair and light green eyes, they could’ve been Trey’s sons.

At the errant thought, Fee froze in mid-toss. An onslaught of biological urges swamped her and had her heart melting. She shook off the hormonal storm and threw the last toy into the box, then slammed the lid on the cleanup and wayward thoughts. Thoughts which had begun to pop up more often since her time in Mexico and Trey’s rescue of her. Thoughts that ruled her lonely nights as she tossed and turned on the lumpy bed in the barely adequate living space situated over the clinic.

Premature thoughts, because her relationship hadn’t moved past first base with Trey. There were sixteen-year-old girls who came to her clinic who had a more active sex life than she did.

To be honest, things had been hectic. First, there’d been the precipitous move from New Mexico to Idaho and all that entailed, with her in New Mexico tying up loose ends and Trey working on SSI ops out of the country.

Upon arrival in Idaho, she’d moved into the provided apartment over the clinic and then immediately jumped into her job’s first gargantuan task—reopening the long-shuttered clinic. There had been a lot of work to do to bring the clinic up to her standards.

After opening the clinic and establishing routine office hours, she’d then taken up the reins of her other medical staff duties by working an ER night shift every other Friday at the main hospital in Grangeville.

Her work schedule and Trey being away for most of the last three weeks had precluded building on the connection that had been cemented during the ordeal in Mexico.

With a free weekend looming ahead, she and Trey were finally getting together for their first real date—dinner and a movie.

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