Lakeside Hospital Box Set by Cara Malone

Author:Cara Malone [Malone, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lisbon Press
Published: 2019-12-19T07:00:00+00:00

Epilogue

Chloe and Ivy’s work schedules didn’t line up for a couple of days, but when they finally did over the weekend, Ivy showed up on the landing of Chloe’s stairs with a bouquet of flowers and a grin. She was wearing her simple black cocktail dress and modest heels, and her hair was pulled back in an elegant chignon.

“You look incredible,” Chloe said as she opened the door and pulled Ivy inside by the lapel of her coat. She kissed Ivy deeply, then accepted the bouquet of flowers as Ivy laughed.

“Please,” she said. “This is the only dress I own and you’ve seen it on me a dozen times by now at school events.”

“And you always look incredible in it,” Chloe said, kissing Ivy once more before peeling back the tissue paper wrapped around the flowers. “Roses – they’re beautiful. Thank you.”

“You deserve flowers every day,” Ivy said. “Maybe I’ll make a habit of it.”

“Don’t,” Chloe said with a bashful laugh. “Then they wouldn’t be special.”

Ivy shrugged and said, “We’ll see. Should we go? I made reservations for seven o’clock.”

Chloe went into the kitchen and found a tall glass, improvising it into a vase for the vibrant red flowers. Then she rejoined Ivy at the door and slipped her hand into hers.

“You look pretty amazing yourself,” Ivy said, spinning Chloe around to look at her.

She’d chosen a sapphire-blue satin dress to bring out the color of her eyes but she’d been worried as she got dressed that she was overthinking their date. It was February in Illinois, a snowstorm was brewing, and she had nothing to cover her legs except a thin pair of tights. and besides – it wasn’t like she and Ivy didn’t already know each other. They’d been involved with each other for most of the school year in one way or another and Chloe wondered whether she was making too much of their first date.

But when Ivy showed up in her little black dress, Chloe knew that it meant as much to Ivy as it did to her. Ivy held Chloe’s coat for her, then they went outside to a cab that Ivy had waiting at the bottom of the stairs. It took them across town to a restaurant at the far end of campus – a five-minute drive that would have been close to a thirty-minute walk in the cold. Chloe cuddled up to Ivy in the back seat, their thighs pressed together as she enjoyed Ivy’s warmth. While they rode, Ivy asked Chloe about her latest rotation.

“Psychiatry, right?” Ivy said.

“Yeah,” Chloe answered. “I really like it, actually. It’s a lot of observation because the residents can’t exactly teach me how to psychoanalyze someone in the span of a couple of weeks, but I find it fascinating. I’ve spent so much of my medical education focusing on diagnosing and treating physical disease, it’s been an interesting change of pace to think about mental health and its impact on people’s lives.”

It had resonated with Chloe ever

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