Forever & Always: Second Chance Medical Sports Protector Romance (Trading Yesterday Book 4) by Kahlen Aymes

Author:Kahlen Aymes [Aymes, Kahlen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KA Publishing
Published: 2023-05-31T23:00:00+00:00

Remi

Every day since I last saw Dylan, dragged. Every moment, pulsed. Every morning when I got up, the date on my phone made the distance between us seem more and more insurmountable. I ached with it.

The months passed slowly. Today was Good Friday and though my parents asked me to come home for Easter, I decided to stay at school. Over Christmas, I’d finally given in to Alan’s calls and we’d become friends again. It had begun with an occasional comedy club, coffee date. or dinner and had progressed to more consistent dating, but it was still much cooler between us. I knew he wanted it to progress, but my heart was still broken. After a few weeks of unanswered calls, Dylan had stopped trying to reach me. I couldn’t bring myself to block him, even though I knew it would probably be easier. Still, I kept up with the national and Kansas City teams. Even if I didn’t watch all his games, I knew their schedule and kept track of the rankings.

I focused on my classes and labs plus spent a lot of time at the hospital, but the nights alone in my bed were torture. At first the nights were sleepless and filled with tears, and now it was more like a big hole had taken up residence in my chest. At least the days were busy.

My Friday afternoons were free on regular weeks, but today I had the entire day off, so made my way into the hospital. The St. Jude campus was huge with several research buildings, parking garages and the main hospital. I knew it like the back of my hand and made my way from the employee parking through the hospital lobby to the blood cancer floor. It didn’t have the cold, sterile look of a normal hospital. There were bright colors, statues of children, lots of toys to play with and child-focused artwork on many of the walls.

Overall, it was a happy place; the nurses, doctors, social workers, psychologists, clergy, and volunteers all worked to restore the physical, mental, and spiritual health of the patients and their families. I went into the employee lounge and stowed my things in an empty locker after checking my phone one last time. I kept it with me so that I could find games and have access to music, but otherwise, I kept it off while I was visiting patients. There were days I made rounds to everyone on the floor and others where I would spend hours with specific patients while they got chemotherapy. Members of most families stayed on location, so many faces became familiar.

Marcia, a young nurse wearing bright pink scrubs, who I’d come to know well since the fall semester began was coming out of a room near the nurse’s station. There was a big smiley face emoji with heart eyes on the station, but the expression on her face was pained and there were tears in her eyes. My heart fell.

“Hi, Remi,” she said, trying to smile.

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