Nixed in Notting Hill by Samantha Silver

Author:Samantha Silver
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blueberry Books Press

Chapter 10

The rest of the afternoon passed rather uneventfully. After lunch, I left Jake to his work once more, and he promised to text me—and Violet—if he discovered anything unusual during his autopsy that might help solve the crime.

However, my phone stayed silent, and instead I headed home and spent the afternoon tidying up our flat before taking Biscuit and Sequoia, my cat and dog, out for a walk.

The two always garnered tons of attention, since Sequoia was a complete sucker for pats from anybody walking by, and Biscuit was a cat who was comfortable being walked on a leash. After about an hour I brought them back home, and it was time to get ready for my shift at St. Thomas’s.

I arrived at the hospital right on time and was greeted by Fatima Muhammed, the head of A&E at the hospital. “It’s a busy one tonight,” she said. “All hands on deck. Thanks for coming.”

“Of course,” I said with a smile. I was getting most of my shifts at St. Thomas’s these days. Fatima had two doctors who had been cycling together and were hit by a car, and now she found herself short-staffed until they were back on their feet. Of course, I hoped for the best for the two doctors, but that was fine with me; I did enjoy the work. And I always had the freedom to say no if I didn’t feel up for a shift.

Still, while I had the option, I found I was never using it. I liked the hospital. I liked the intensity in Accident and Emergency. I enjoyed feeling like I was making a difference in people’s lives, rather than feeling like I was simply drifting along, a side character following Violet Dupuis as she solved crimes and changed the world.

I went into the staff room at the back and dropped off my bag, changing into a pair of scrubs and grabbing my stethoscope before heading into the chaos that would be tonight. After all, it was a full moon. And I didn’t care what science said, or how much it was considered a superstition. Anyone who has worked in a hospital knew that full moons were different.

Forty minutes later I slid aside a privacy curtain to find myself facing my third—or was it fourth?—patient of the day. I’d had a ten-year-old who had fallen off her bike and was waiting for X-rays, a woman who had somehow swallowed six two-pence coins, and a man who had twisted his knee at the gym that I’d referred to a specialist.

This time, I found myself facing a young woman in her early twenties, looking a little bit sheepish. She clutched at her hand, which was wrapped in copious amounts of gauze. Big brown eyes stared at me from bronze-colored skin. She was dressed casually in a nice top and jeans, and her black hair was tied back in a ponytail.

“Hi, I’m Cassie,” I greeted her. “Are you Keisha?”

“That’s me,” she said. “I had a bit of an accident in the science lab.

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