The Billionaire's Reckless Marriage (The Limitless Clean Billionaire Romance Series Book 2) by Tamie Dearen

Author:Tamie Dearen [Dearen, Tamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-12T04:00:00+00:00

“Time to get some blood from you.”

The perky lab tech woke Finn up from a dead sleep. He felt like he’d been run over by a truck.

“What time is it?” he croaked, rubbing his eyes.

“It’s 4:15.” She rolled her noisy cart beside his bed and set up for a blood draw. With a freckled forehead and her hair in a ponytail, she looked all of twelve years old, though she had to be at least eighteen.

“4:15 in the morning?” He swam through the fog in his head. How long had he been here?

“4:15 in the afternoon. Want me to open the blinds before I go? Let the sun in?” She wrapped a rubber tie around his arm.

“No.” He was so tired, he knew he’d fall back to sleep as soon as she left. But wait, he needed to stay awake so he could call Laurie. She was bound to be furious with him, considering his cover story. “I changed my mind. I think I’d like the blinds open, after all. I’m sorry, I missed your name.”

“It’s Mallory.”

He watched her push the needle through his skin and into his vein. “Mallory, how did you decide to become a vampire?”

She giggled as she released the band and blood flowed into the waiting tube. “I guess I was inspired by reading vampire romance novels. Don’t worry—they were clean romances.”

“Clean romance? Didn’t know there was such a thing.”

She pulled the needle out and secured a pad in its place with a piece of stretchy gauze around his arm.

His cough started up again and wouldn’t stop. Over and over, the violent cough tore at his raw throat. Mallory took a few steps backward, probably grateful she was wearing a face mask. When it finally subsided, he sent an apologetic look her way, but she was already rolling her cart out the door, having forgotten her promise to open the blinds.

He found the control and lifted the head of his bed, all too familiar with the procedure from all his hospital stays. After drinking water to soothe his irritated throat, he practiced speaking, intent on hiding his hoarseness. Two more rounds of drinking and practicing followed, and then he dialed Laurie’s cell number.

The phone rang for a while before she answered, her voice tentative. “Hello?”

“Hey, I thought I’d check in while I had cell phone reception.” He steeled himself against the angry retort he knew was coming. She’d had hours to rehearse, so it would probably fillet him with precision. But he deserved it. Though he hadn’t escaped on an overseas vacation as he’d claimed, he’d nonetheless let Laurie down. Not only her, but also Branson, Cole, Jarrett, and his whole R&D team. He would undoubtedly lose a minimum of a week at work, lying around, sick and useless.

“Finn? How are you?” She made a throat-clearing noise. “I mean… how is your trip?”

“Uhmm… good, so far.” Where was her sharp temper? Why was she holding back? “I know you’re angry with me, but—”

“I’m not upset at all.

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