Forever Sheltered by Deanna Roy

Author:Deanna Roy [Roy, Deanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: new adult, doctor, forbidden, authority
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28: Darion

It had been a long night.

I didn’t leave the hospital at all, but I had anticipated this and packed a change of clothes. I napped in the lounge, and once on a gurney in Surgical Suite B, surrounded by memories of Tina and the lingering smell of the custodian’s cigarettes.

Cynthia leveled out by late evening, and we reduced the drugs in her system and removed the coolants. Angela was exhausted, I knew. We all were. I realized I might need to hire a second nurse so we could have someone around the clock. This was ludicrous, though, really. We were in the hospital. She already had 24-hour care.

I showered downstairs next to the gym and checked on Cynthia before I was even supposed to arrive on shift. She was still sleeping, but her vitals were fine. Temperature still up a bit, but 100 was nothing like 105, where we’d topped out before getting it down.

We were out of the woods. She was going to get better now.

I walked down Tina’s hall late morning, intending just to wave. She had been kind and calm on the phone when I managed to call last night. We talked of Cynthia, and the coincidence of the double gift of the markers. She didn’t bring up the beach night again, and neither did I. It seemed understood that we were past it. And I knew her a little better now. I realized she had some triggers.

But when I got to her window, she was alone inside. Instead of just walking by, I poked my head into the room. “Got a second?”

Tina stood up from the box of markers she was wiping down. “Sure.” She tweaked her ponytails, a gesture that made me smile. When she wasn’t all upset, she was damn cute.

The big window made us super visible, so I stood by the door. “I just wanted to see you.”

“How is Cynthia?”

“She’s stable. Low-grade fever, but nothing like yesterday.”

Tina relaxed her clenched hands. “Good, I’m so glad. I was so scared for her.”

“We’ve had worse, actually.”

“I don’t know how you stay so calm.”

I leaned against the door. “That’s what we have to do.” I wanted to hold her close, pull her into me. I thought about asking her down to the surgical suite, but that seemed self-indulgent.

Tina tugged on the bottom of her sweater. She had this bohemian chic look today, a fitted ice blue cable knit over a deliberately wrinkly skirt. And the stockings, of course. Blue and beige stripes. I couldn’t help but wonder if she was wearing a bra.

“Come here,” she said, and headed toward the supply closet.

I glanced back at the window. As soon as I stepped away from the door, I would be visible.

“I won’t sully your sterling reputation,” she said. “Well, not on purpose.”

She opened the door, but the closet was not a walk-in, just a set of shelves.

“I don’t think I’ll fit,” I said, but she grabbed my hand and pulled me behind the open door.

Now I got it.

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