Handle Me by Kira Sinclair

Author:Kira Sinclair
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

10

VAN GROANED AND rolled over. It took her several seconds to realize what had pulled her from the restless sleep she’d finally fallen into.

Her phone buzzed on the nightstand, the screen glowing bright in the dark.

Calls this early were never good.

Ty, her parents—if something had happened to them...

Wide awake now, she snatched the phone up and answered in a rush. “Yes?”

“Van, I’m so sorry to call this early.” All the fear and energy rushed out of her at the sound of her boss’s voice. Stifling another groan, Van flopped back onto the bed and squeezed her eyes shut.

Clearly, no one she cared about had been in a horrible accident—and she wasn’t ready to contemplate why Ty had come first in the list of people to worry about—but that didn’t mean this call was going to be good. In fact, it was going to be very bad.

“I know you’re supposed to be on vacation until the middle of next week—”

“The first vacation time I’ve taken in two years.” Not counting the time she’d taken off for Ryan’s funeral, which definitely wasn’t a vacation.

“I know. But a stomach virus has hit the hospital and I’m severely short-staffed. I could really use the help. Ten hours. That’s all I need. I promise.”

This is what she got for staying home during her time off instead of slipping away to some mountain retreat. Quiet nights full of clear skies and stars so big they felt close enough to touch. Cool, crisp mountain air. Long hikes, just her and her thoughts. Van closed her eyes and could practically feel the sun warming her skin.

“Van?”

“What?”

“Seriously. You know I wouldn’t call if I didn’t really need you.”

With a sigh, she pushed up from the bed. Tina was a damn good chief of staff for the hospital. She’d been a friend and mentor long before she’d become her boss. And Tina was right; she knew how much Van had needed a break from the hospital, from her life, from all the pain and grief of the last few months. She wouldn’t have called if she had another option.

“Fine. I’ll be there in an hour. But I don’t care what’s going on, when that clock hits six p.m. I’m out the door. You better start figuring out which sucker you’re going to call in for the evening shift.”

Tina chuckled. “That sucker’s already lined up.”

“Perfect.”

Rolling out of bed, Van fell into her normal routine. Maybe it was a good thing she was going in. Several hours of high-pressured work would at least keep her brain from spinning back to amazing kitchen-counter sex.

And how much she really wanted to do it again.

Even if that would be the stupidest move she’d ever made.

Or maybe the stupidest move she’d ever made was letting Ty Colson spend the night on her bathroom floor in the first place.

Memories assaulted her, revving her body and making parts of it throb with banked need. Their first time together had left fuzzy impressions. Good ones that had tortured her in her dreams.

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