Strangers with Benefits (Siren Publishing Classic) by Jennifer Willows
Author:Jennifer Willows [Willows, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Romance
Published: 2015-06-30T23:00:00+00:00
Chapter Eleven:
Healing and Heartbreak
After a lusty weekend with Den, Sidonie felt as if she had burned both ends of the candle and maybe the middle, too. She was exhausted and even that was a sorry description for how she felt at the moment.
By Tuesday night, she was face down in her bed by the time the kids went upstairs for the evening. They had an extended bedtime due to their ages, and lights out usually was by ten thirty. The next morning seemed interminably slow as she was with the development team.
They were smart, but she had never met an odder bunch of geeks in her life. After lunch, they chit chatted about a nothing really.
The drone testing in Canada was interesting, but not enough to distract her and she found her mind wandering off in every direction.
Really one direction.
Den.
Then she heard one of the techs, Elisha, gasp.
“What?”
“I just got a message from my son.” Elisha’s son was a state trooper and whenever something bad happened that might show up on the news, he usually sent her a message to let her know that he was all right.
“He’s all right?”
“Yeah. But it looks like a local officer was shot and run over this morning.”
“Oh, that sounds bad.” No way was it Den.
He was fine. She was just freaking out for no reason. But she pulled out her phone and sent a message. It’s just to check up on him.
Hey, hon. Heard that someone got hurt. Are you okay?
The cursor blinked as she waited for him to reply.
He’s probably busy.
He’s just fine, Sid, stop fretting.
But after twenty minutes, Sidonie piped back into the conversation.
“Hey Elisha, did your son mention who it was?”
“No. But they usually don’t release the name until the next of kin has been notified.”
“Any chance he would know?”
“Probably. If not, he should be able to find out.” Elisha started texting immediately.
Sidonie bit her thumb nail, one tiny shred at a time, until there was nothing left but the quick and a ruined cuticle.
Ten minutes later, Elisha’s phone chimed. “I don’t know him, but Eric said the officer is a… Dennis McTavish?” She shrugged.
Sidonie gasped just before her vision went black. She heard the chatter of several voices, but she couldn’t see a thing.
Open your eyes.
Open your eyes.
“Sid! Can you hear me?”
“Huh?”
“Are you okay?”
No. She wasn’t.
“Uh, I’m fine. I have to go. Now.”
“What?”
“You can make do without me. Send me an e-mail when you have a prototype.”
She walked outside and realized, she had no idea where she was even headed. Elisha said he was at the hospital, but she didn’t know where. New Hanover was the most likely option, but not the only one.
When she hopped into the SUV, the phone rang. “Is this Sidonie Clark?”
“Yes.”
“I’m Anna Benson at New Hanover.”
“Uh, okay.”
“We have a patient here that has been calling your name since the anesthesia wore off.”
“Den?”
“Sounds like it. His parents have been contacted, and they are on their way up now, but I thought that a friendly face might help him out.
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