Dark Grace_The Grace Series_Book 3 by M. Lauryl Lewis

Author:M. Lauryl Lewis [Lewis, M. Lauryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Larson Falls Publishing
Published: 2013-06-17T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Susan was far from happy with me and Gus, understandably. Still, her cold shoulder toward me was starting to grow old. It had been hours since Boggs had left, followed by Linus and Nathan. I knew she was angry that Nathan and Boggs were both in danger because of what Gus and I had done. I had tried to apologize to the girls, but Susan was adamant that I not talk to them until she figured out how to explain to them what was going on. She was their primary caregiver now and I had to respect that.

Eventually Gus grew tired, so I helped him walk to the storage room.

“I remade Gus’ bed,” said Agnes.

“Thank you kindly,” he replied.

“Gus, this is Agnes. We found her and her brother, Linus, in the sporting goods store across the alley.”

“Nice to meet you, Agnes. Sorry it’s under these circumstances.”

She shrugged. “I just hope my brother’s ok out there helping your friends.”

“Ok, girls, let’s go out to the front lobby and let Gus rest,” said Susan.

She and Agnes left the room, led by Jane and Abbey.

“I need to lay down, Zoe.”

“Can I get you anything?”

“Just sleep. Unless you know what Nathan’s been giving me? I’m probably due for more antibiotics.”

“Ya, something called Cephalexin. I know he set it all up on the counter.”

He motioned toward the operating room doors with a tip of his head. “What’s back there?”

“A surgical room. It might still stink, though. Nate and Boggs and I cleared out a dead dog before we brought you over from the smoke shop. It was horrible, Gus.” I felt goose bumps rising on my arms as I thought about large dog. “It was dead, but it snapped at Nathan when we went to move it.”

“You mean it was alive?”

“It was one of them…the living dead.”

“Shit.” He shuffled toward the double doors. “I want to take a look, ok?”

“Sure.”

I walked with him. Once inside the room, it smelled more like bleach than death. Gus looked around intently. I stayed near the doors and just watched him. He stopped near the center of the floor that housed the drain, and before I realized what he was doing I heard the sound of his urine stream, followed by a sigh of relief.

“You did not just do that,” I said.

He tucked himself into his pants before turning toward me. He smiled and winked at me. “Much better. When I’m a little steadier on my feet I’ll look for supplies.”

“What for?”

“Birthing that baby of yours. Let’s get back to the other room. It’s cold in here.”

He wrapped an arm around me and we went back to the counter where Nathan had set out supplies. Gus looked at a few different syringes that had been labeled, as well as a small IV bag that had an empty syringe and two small vials sitting beside it.

“I’m going to mix up the antibiotics and get them going. Do me a favor?”

“Anything.”

“If I fall asleep, wake me up when the bag is almost empty.

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