Pit Road: Running Under by Anah Crow & Dianne Fox

Author:Anah Crow & Dianne Fox [Crow, Anah & Fox, Dianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2011-12-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Oil Change

It didn't take much to get things set up so Sully could be there after Denny's surgery, what with him not having any family around. That didn't keep Denny from being petrified through the preparations, though. The nurse kept offering him medicine for his nerves in case he was scared of the surgery coming up.

Sully knew better. It was the way the nurse looked at them, kind as could be, and talked to them in a genuine way that should have put anyone at ease. Anyone but Denny. When she convinced him to take the pills, it was something of a mercy that they put him half to sleep.

It was a good thing Sully was there, because when Dr. Halder came in to explain exactly what her plans were--and to scrawl Operate Here on Denny's bad leg like someone might not be able to tell the difference--there was no way Denny could have kept up with what she was saying. Sully wasn't sure he could have kept up with it even if he wasn't drugged to the gills.

Denny hadn't gotten much out of high school. It didn't make him stupid, but it sure made him frustrated when people used words he didn't understand. Dr. Halder was more patient than she'd seemed, though, explaining to Sully where she was going to be cutting into Denny again and how she was going to leave tubes in to take away all the extra blood and stuff that could swell his leg up and kill off the nerves for good.

"You're his roommate?" Dr. Halder was reading her notes on a small computer tablet. "I don't have anyone listed here."

"Yeah, I'm around." Sully wanted so badly to look over her shoulder.

"All this time?" She made an irritated noise that Sully knew well enough from Mama and Savvy. Men. God knew he felt like that about Denny half the time.

"He's not my momma," Denny protested, waking up enough to defend himself.

"I'm sure he's fully capable of reading a few numbers on a drain," Dr. Halder said. "And not brushing off anything that looks like an infection."

"I can surely do that." Sully resisted the urge to stroke Denny's hair.

"Will you?" Dr. Halder fixed him with a sharp look.

"Yes, ma'am." Sully tried to look as responsible as possible.

"I can take care of myself." Denny glared at Sully. Talk about being caught between a rock and a hard place.

"The evidence suggests otherwise, Mr. Clay." Dr. Halder made a note on her tablet. "I suggest you allow Mr. Price to assist you as necessary. This is, after all, your last chance."

And that was that. Denny's last chance. Sully passed the time by texting Savvy until she told him her thumbs were tired and the kids were home, then he read one worn-out magazine after another. There were other folks in the waiting room, but they were wrapped in their own worlds of anxiety. No one was talking to anyone they hadn't come in with.

"Mr. Price?" A young man in purple scrubs hovered at the threshold to the waiting area.

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