Out of the Darkness (Siren Publishing Classic) by Dalton Tymber

Author:Dalton, Tymber [Dalton, Tymber]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2012-05-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

It was after four when they reached the hospital. Sami checked with the front desk to make sure they hadn’t moved Steve. He was still in the same room.

I suppose that’s good.

When they reached the hall near his room, Sami pulled Matt aside. “Let me walk in ahead of you.”

He nodded.

She was happy to see the restraints were off, but the IV was back, and a bag of fluids along with two different pumps delivered medicine. Wires ran from under Steve’s hospital johnny to a large cart, which held equipment to monitor his various vital signs.

The nurse who’d treated Sami’s wrist sat working on his chart in the corner. She smiled at Sami and waved her in. “Mrs. Corey, he’s doing much better. How’s your wrist?”

She touched it. “It hurts, but it’s okay.”

Steve opened his eyes. “Sami.” He weakly held up his free hand. She cautiously approached, nervous about getting too close.

He spotted his friend. “Matt!” Steve’s eyes brightened, in a good way.

Matt stepped past Sami and gave Steve a one-armed hug. “You’ll do anything to get out of a deadline, won’t you, Boy Genius?”

Steve tried to laugh and winced. “Yeah, that’s me, just sandbagging.”

“Is he in pain?” Sami asked the nurse.

She nodded. “The doctor will be here in a little while to talk with you. They’re going to take him into surgery tonight. They think the wound has abscessed, and that’s causing the infection. Right now the OR isn’t available, and they don’t want to transfer him to another facility.”

“How can a hospital only have one OR?”

“Oh, we have more than one. There’s only one anesthesiologist available. One’s out sick, and the other is over in Spring Hill on an emergency. We’ve never needed more than three on-calls during the weekend before. As soon as the doctor’s free, they’ll let us know so we can get him to pre-op and they can take him in right away. It should only be another hour or so.”

Steve eyed Sami’s wrist. She stepped closer and put on what she hoped was a brave smile. “Are you feeling better?”

“Relatively speaking.” He sounded weak. “I guess I caused a lot of trouble this morning. I’m so sorry.” He started crying. When an alarm went off, the nurse silenced it before adjusting a few settings on his monitor.

“We’re monitoring his vital signs,” she explained, as if it made any sense to Sami.

Sami leaned over Steve and held his free hand. “Listen, it’s okay. You weren’t yourself.” That’s for sure. “The doctor said it was the fever.”

He stared at her bandaged wrist. “It’s not okay. Sami, I’m so sorry.” His voice dropped to a whisper. “I’m scared.”

She tried to read his face. “Why?”

He glanced at the nurse, who was preoccupied working on his chart. “I don’t feel like myself,” he whispered. “I’m hearing things. I blacked out at the house and I—I saw things.”

So he did have an idea what was going on. “Steve, it’s okay. You’re just sick. We can talk about this after they get you fixed up.

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