Doctor Last-Chance by Kenna Ryan

Author:Kenna Ryan [Ryan, Kenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kiss and Tale, Ink
Published: 2020-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

-Chapter Ten

So, here I am where you found me, six months since the kiss incident. The kissident.

One month since I applied for the job at St. Francis.

Today is my last day at Maple Hills Family Medicine. Ashley, Dr. Piper’s nurse, and the front office ladies have flowers and cake waiting when I come in.

“Going to make you earn your last day,” Rhonda says, pretending to glare at me over the top of her oversized frames. She taps the screen of her scheduling computer with her prized pen. “Sports physicals and an apocalyptic outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth.”

I scoff. “You can’t scare me. I survived last year’s Great Rotavirus Epidemic with extra diarrhea included. Even got the t-shirt.”

Ashley raises her slender arm. “Got it in a medium and a large.”

“Exactly. Ash knows. Besides, if I didn’t have all this I’d just have to go home and finish packing.” All that’s left is my toiletries and a few piles of laundry. Otherwise, I live in a box fort.

“Switching over the phones!” Rhonda calls out, patting her salt and pepper bun like she’s ready for war.

I gird myself and stretch. “I’ll go get Exam 1 ready.”

“Make sure you do it the way Evans likes it,” says Ashley.

I stop mid-stride, trying to decide if this is an off-color joke. “Dr. Evans?”

Immediately I realize she doesn’t know about Evans. Ash is just making a general comment on his reputation for being difficult.

The ladies pass around a guilty look. “He’s covering today for Chance. Had to call in reinforcements with all these extra patients.”

So, no Dr. Chance on my last day. True, Jake hasn’t been in the office much with his ER rotation, but when he is around, I thought he and I had done alright. It was even borderline pleasant a lot of the time.

Today will not be borderline pleasant. If I’m lucky it’ll be tolerable hell.

“Kate, you okay?” asks Ashley.

“What? Yeah. No big deal. I’ve worked with Scott Evans enough times to…” I trail off, nodding.

Just get it over with, Kate. Get it all over with.

My phone rings when I’m halfway through setting up the room. I secretly hope it’s Jake; he should be getting into the ER about now.

It’s not. “Hey,” I mutter, phone clasped between my chin and shoulder.

“Hey,” Felicity shoots back. “I’m at your place and my key doesn’t work?”

“What! Wait, what are you doing there?”

“Dropping off a surprise. Well, I was dropping off a surprise. Cat’s out of the bag now.”

My brain sticks between gears. “Why doesn’t your key work?”

She laughs. “You tell me; that’s why I’m calling.”

“Oh. Right. Weird. Let me call Tom and see if he can come figure it out.” Tom is a nice guy, a terrible landlord, and a worse building manager.

He doesn’t answer my call, in typical fashion. A text goes unanswered for ten minutes.

Tom: Hey, what do you need?

Me: A friend is there, trying to get in. Says her key doesn’t work

Tom: I sure hope not! :)

Before I can ask WTF, Tom adds:

Changed the locks this morning

Why? I hammer back.

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