Reed by Sawyer Bennett

Author:Sawyer Bennett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Josie

If there’s one thing I appreciate about progress in a medical setting, it’s the fact that cafeteria food has gotten really good in recent years. This is a bonus for me, so I don’t have to worry about packing food to bring each day. Of course, I’m lucky if I’m able to scrape together fifteen to thirty minutes to be able to eat during my shift.

I choose a sandwich and a small side salad along with a bottle of water and make my way to the checkout lane. I’m only half paying attention to my surroundings when I hear, “Hey, Josie.”

I spin around and see Aiden standing two customers back. He has tray of food in his hands and I wonder why he’s here at the hospital cafeteria.

Aiden nods down to my tray and then back to me with a grin. “Looks like I get to have that lunch with you sooner than I thought.”

I laugh and give him a nod of acknowledgment. “I guess that would be true.”

I’m actually relieved to run into Aiden in a hospital setting. There’s something about having my white lab coat on that feels like some type of protection. I also didn’t want to be in any circumstance with him where he would take me out for lunch somewhere that is too “datelike.” So this works out perfectly.

“I’ll get us a table,” I tell him, and turn away to pay for my food before he can offer to do the same, because I know Aiden, and he would have.

I find a booth that’s out of the way and with no one sitting around. Not that I require privacy, but merely because the table looked like it had been wiped down recently. With the amount of hospital staff and visitors who come through this cafeteria, it’s not easy to find a clean table, as most are eating and dashing with another horde waiting for the table.

By the time I’ve chewed my first bite of sandwich, Aiden is sliding into the seat opposite me. I can tell with one glance down at his plate that there are some things that haven’t changed about him. He’s got his typical salad with a lean protein—this time a grilled chicken breast—and dressing on the side. Aiden was always one to eat super healthy and he worked out diligently.

Aiden beams across the table at me and says, “Gosh, Josie. It’s so damn good to see you again.”

“Likewise,” I say, although my smile doesn’t beam as brightly as his. “So, tell me all about what you’ve been up to over the last two years. Kevin has kept me updated when he hears from you.”

Aiden nods his head. “The ability to get emails out was spotty at best, so I wasn’t able to update Kevin all that much. My first year I worked down in Haiti. The country was struggling to recover from the last hurricane, as well as some strikes that were going on in their public hospitals. And that was good.

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