Psychiatric Nurse by Dan Ross

Author:Dan Ross
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: romance, nurse, medical
Published: 1971-04-08T02:45:52+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Fortunately, they parted before the door opened and admitted Dr. Werner into the office with an expression of grim interest on his face. Jean felt that both she and Ken looked tense and guilty, but she hoped that Dr. Werner wouldn't guess the reason why.

Dr. Werner coughed tactfully. "It was not my intention to intrude," he said. "I knocked."

Jean was sure about this, but Ken was completely calm and assured as he said, "You weren't intruding, Doctor."

The head of the hospital surveyed them with veiled sarcasm. "If you have something to finish discussing, I could return later."

"Miss Shannon was just leaving," Ken was quick to say. And he turned to Jean. "Thank you for giving me the information on those charts, Miss Shannon."

She at once picked up his cue. "Any time, Doctor Hastings," she said quietly. She gave Dr. Werner a pleasant nod and went out of Ken's office.

Remaining outside the closed door for a moment, she could hear the men's voices as they began to talk. But she could not hear what they were saying. She was still standing there when Nurse Bertha Fraser came down the corridor and gave her a scathing look but said nothing. Jean was sure that there was still a lot of jealousy on Bertha's part.

Hoping that their moment together wouldn't get Ken in trouble, Jean turned and followed Bertha down the corridor. She wasn't aware of how much the head doctor had seen or suspected, but she knew he would use anything against them that he could when he felt the time was right.

She went directly to the reading room to find the tiny Peggy Chase sitting in an easy chair reading a popular ladies' magazine, and the long-haired Tom Crater immersed in a book as he sat a distance away from Peggy.

The deceptively pleasant young man with a history of paranoia looked up at Jean and smiled. "Have you decided to do some serious reading, Miss Shannon?"

She smiled in return, though she was not ever at ease in the young man's presence. He simply was so normal outwardly that she feared he was seething with inner emotions, the only hint of which showed in his strange, bright eyes. It bothered her that these two patients should be in the reading room with no orderlies in sight.

"Have you any books to recommend?" she asked.

"I don't think you'd like my selections," he said. "I'm only interested in murder mysteries. I'm reading one now about a strangler. I know you wouldn't enjoy it." It was too deliberate. He was taunting her about her near escape from Steve Abrams, and doing it in such a subtle way that she couldn't make a complaint about it.

Peggy Chase had put down her magazine and now came to Jean's defense, saying, "Miss Shannon has to put up with enough stranglers around here not to want to read about one."

Tom Crater smiled thinly. "Sorry. I forgot about that, Miss Shannon."

Jean was determined to make the best of a difficult moment.

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