Families and Other Enemies & Hard to Kill & Hidden Truths by Dodd Christina

Author:Dodd, Christina [Dodd, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense, thriller, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781094002941
Amazon: 1094002941
Goodreads: 45577029
Publisher: Harlequin Audio and Blackstone Publishing
Published: 2019-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

KELLEN SLIPPED UNNOTICED through the turmoil to her next assignment, drawn to the nursery where she had first visited Baby Joy.

It was, she realized, early afternoon. Nurse Bernice at her desk, working on charts and reports, half-consciously listening for any alarms.

Baby Joy was out of her incubator, strapped to Mrs. Hibbert’s chest, resting quietly. Kellen could tell the baby had been given a kind of peace by the old lady, the rocking chair, maybe by her new name.

Kellen crept forward, not wanting to disturb the child or the woman who rocked the baby.

Little Joy opened her eyes and looked at Kellen…and Kellen knew.

The chair wasn’t rocking. Mrs. Hibbert wasn’t moving.

She was gone. She was dead. Her spirit had not lingered.

Why not? Why had she gone so quickly, so completely?

Because she had died in a state of grace, doing good. She had saved Baby Joy. That little girl would survive to fight for her life.

Dr. Davis didn’t know, not yet. When he entered the room, he spoke to Nurse Bernice. “Did you hear about the security video they got of that monster of a father who was smothering his daughter so he could get attention?”

“Did they get him?”

“They sure did. The little girl’s in protective custody and he’s under arrest. But that’s not the great part about the video.”

Nurse Bernice looked up from her charts. “What?”

“He’s got the poor little girl under the pillow, leaning all his weight on her. Everyone thinks this time he was going to kill her. The kid is fighting like crazy—and all over a sudden the IV pole goes flying.” Dr. Davis grinned in fiendish delight.

“What do you mean, it goes flying?” Nurse Bernice was listening, but not paying attention.

“It looks like something knocked into it, knocked it over. It hit the floor. The bottle shattered. It was a mess, but it distracted him before he could do worse.”

Nurse Bernice looked up. “So he bumped it with his foot?”

“You watch the video. There’s no one anywhere near that IV pole.”

Nurse Bernice got what he was not saying. “Oh, come on.”

“Watch the video, you pagan. It’ll make you a believer.”

“In ghosts?”

“What better place than a hospital?”

Kellen gloated. She might be a ghost, but she had made a difference. “You might want to speak to Mrs. Hibbert,” she told them.

Nurse Bernice raised her voice. “Mrs. Hibbert? How’s it going over there? Ready to be relieved?” She frowned, stood and walked over to the rocking chair. “Mrs. Hibbert?”

The old lady had died, having lived her life well. Her final gift was to Baby Joy, who would survive and thrive.

How lovely.

Kellen left the nursery, rode on the ribbons of emotion and found herself by the busy nurses’ station near her room. Her surgeon, Dr. Clift, was there, cursing the paperwork as he filled it out.

A silence fell that had him lifting his head.

Harrison Benchley was approaching, returning from physical therapy to his room.

Everyone watched him, but most of all, the woman at the corner of the broad counter watched him, as she always did.

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