One Good Friend Deserves Another by Lisa Verge Higgins
Author:Lisa Verge Higgins [Higgins, Lisa Verge]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781455510498
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
chapter eleven
Walking cross-town was not the quickest route between Kelly’s apartment in Hell’s Kitchen and the hospital on East Sixty-eighth Street. But Kelly knew the subway would be a crush because of the Yankees–Red Sox game and the Gay Pride parade, so she opted to hoof it. Three blocks later she realized she’d forgotten about the street fair on Ninth as well as the swelling influx of Saturday visitors. Her trek across Manhattan became an obstacle course of pretzel carts, crick-necked tourists, tin-drum bands, and half-naked men wearing strategically placed feathers.
Rushing the last block to the hospital, she glanced at her cell phone and groaned as she dropped it back into her messenger bag. She was a good half hour late to the first real intervention she and the girls had ever attempted.
Kelly hurried through the glass doors, signed in at the desk, and headed straight to the elevator bank. She fussed with the strap of her bag as worries pecked at her. She thought she knew Cole to the bone, but he had been living in her apartment for weeks and she’d never suspected any problem. Dhara had told her that he’d always been high functioning, hiding bottles in the laundry basket and filling his Starbucks thermos with anything but coffee. But as Kelly entered the elevator and stabbed the button for the Cardiac Step-Down floor, a cold drip of fear slipped down her spine. It was one thing to confront Marta about her men issues or Dhara over an arranged marriage. It was another thing to confront a man whose own father denied his paternity, handed him a wad of dirty twenties, and shoved the devastated eighteen-year-old onto the first bus out of Memphis.
Kelly prayed that Dhara remembered to have a professional present. If Cole lashed out… There’d be more than one intervention today.
Kelly located his room and found Cole propped upright in bed, the window shelf beside him laden with flower arrangements and balloons. He looked more like his old self than when she last saw him. Above the neckline of his hospital gown his chest was shiny with sweat.
“Sorry, I’m late.” Kelly mustered a smile for Cole’s sake as she shrugged off her messenger bag. She set it with a clunk by the wall. “Pedestrian traffic slowed me up.”
“Hey, Kelly.” Wendy stood by the bed pulling wax-wrapped sandwiches out of a brown paper bag, turning the sandwiches this way and that, as if to decipher the cryptic markings on the wrappings. “You didn’t pick up your cell when I called for lunch orders so I just bought you an Italian hero with the dressing on the side. That okay?”
“Um…okay.”
Kelly tried to catch Wendy’s eye. They usually didn’t eat during an intervention. Talking around a wad of salami wasn’t conducive to telling a buddy that he was screwing up his life. But Wendy, tossing a sandwich to Marta, missed her silent query. So did Marta, who was swaying by Cole’s bedside to some tinny music coming through the earbud of her iPod.
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