Scripted Love by Helena Harte

Author:Helena Harte [Harte, Helena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: lesbian romance, Hollywood, lesbian fiction
Publisher: Butterworth Books
Published: 2021-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

14

WHEN RIX WOKE, the first thing that came into her awareness was the sharp, throbbing pain in the back of her head. The second was the various spots of tightness on her arms and chest. She opened her eyes slowly, looked down her body to see multiple needles in her veins, and followed the lines up to bags of fluid. Wires from her chest led to a monitor with a colorful and spiky display of her vital signs. I’m in the hospital? She slowly raised her right arm, lifted her head slightly, and felt the back. She discovered a padded bandage that wrapped all the way around her skull and then she sighed, remembering what she’d been doing. Rookie mistake. She relaxed back onto her pillow gingerly and took a deep breath, concentrating on the rest of her body to find any other sore spots. Everything else seemed normal.

The door to her room opened, and a white-coated woman entered. She picked up Rix’s chart and flipped through it before looking up and making eye contact. “Good afternoon, Ms. Reardon, I’m Doctor Jephson. How are you feeling?”

“Embarrassed, mostly.” It’d been at least nine months since she’d last surfed, and she’d gone straight back into it, expecting to be the same standard. Which wasn’t high in the first place, but she’d appreciated Ann’s comment about her skill level even though it was tempered with a reference to her age. An age she felt right now, lying prone in a damn hospital bed. The last time she’d been in the hospital, she was being born, and she was proud to be able to say that. No broken bones, obviously no pregnancies, and no health scares. She’d broken a perfect record as well as her head.

Dr. Jephson smiled, a perfectly fake smile where the emotion stopped way short of her eyes. “The good news is that it wasn’t a heart attack. Your ECG and blood tests were clear. Your assistant tells me you gripped your chest before you fell into the water. On a scale of one to ten, how bad was the pain?”

Rix had been hoping to keep that to herself, but Layla had probably seen her do it and told Jack out of concern. She was aware of the futility and counter-productiveness of her thought process, but she hadn’t wanted to give credence to her health issues by acknowledging them herself, let alone sharing them with other people. “Two.”

Dr. Jephson arched her right eyebrow and tapped on Rix’s chart with her pen. “There’s little point in not being honest with me, Ms. Reardon. I can only help you if you wish to help yourself.”

Suitably reprimanded, Rix amended her answer to a five.

“And the pains you’ve been having, they’ve been around the same level?” Dr. Jephson asked.

“Yes.”

“And they haven’t been getting progressively worse since your own doctor diagnosed your angina?”

“No.”

“Well, that’s one good thing. If you take steps to alter your diet, and you exercise more, the pains should reduce over time. But you won’t ever be able to go back to your previous lifestyle.

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