Heath by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773363790
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2019-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Several days later Hailee started to get to know and to identify the different staff members and patients. During her night shift work of cleaning, she didn’t get to meet very many people. But now any number of individuals came through the offices at any given time. It was one of the oddest feelings. When she had started her cleaning job, she’d been so grateful to Dani but hadn’t really recognized how different it was to work here on the day shift as compared to working the night shift.

She saw very few people at night. If she ever saw even three in her entire shift, she’d have been surprised. But now that she had this daytime job, dozens of people were coming and going all the time. The other job had had a sense of privacy, something she’d been happy to have at the time. Yet now, she felt like she was part of something. She was involved in the hustle and bustle of daily life here at Hathaway House.

She’d been included. Maybe that was what was different. This kind of felt like she belonged.

Cleaning in the nights almost felt like she was whispering silently through the halls, not letting anybody know she was here. And now it was a completely different thing. She was slowly getting to know more of the staff, and, of course, some of the patients came up with headaches of their own. Usually about paperwork or phone calls or connections and appointments that they needed to make and couldn’t get made on their own without some help or maybe needed to go into town. So patients were continually talking to the women at the front desk if not with Dani and Hailee.

It was interesting. Hailee had her own office and a door that she could close, if and when she needed the privacy to get the work done. And yet, with it open, she was still part of the inner circle of how everything operated. A very different feeling than she’d had at night. However, one thing was missing.

And she didn’t even know his name.

She’d gone past his door several times and hesitated, wanting to go in and to say hi but had struggled with that. She felt like she’d be interfering, an interloper in some ways, or maybe he didn’t want to see who she was. If their positions were reversed, she’d be feeling bereft and deserted if the cleaning lady had abandoned her. Abandoned. And that just made her wince because was there any worse feeling in the world? She didn’t think so. She’d been there and had experienced the same thing herself, and it was crippling in a way.

A couple conversations happened outside her office that were low-key, and she hadn’t been invited to join in, so she hadn’t a clue what was going on. But it was odd. She kept her ear perked out of curiosity but never really heard too much. She heard the name Heath, which made her think of moors and long walks with dogs and walking sticks.

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