The Tight End_A New Adult Sports Romance_Casper by Zoë Lane

Author:Zoë Lane [Lane, Zoë]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zoë Lane
Published: 2018-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

CASPER

I couldn’t blame her for trying.

Again.

She took her job seriously. I respected that. A lot of people in the world didn’t care for what they did, and their efforts showed. No gratitude, no work ethic, poor performance.

And after our kiss...

I smiled and nearly skipped down the hall towards the doctor’s office.

She liked me.

There was no denying it after she had laid down so willingly on the massage table.

Me. Casper Taylor.

The guy she thought was corny and couldn’t stand. The guy who, if I hadn’t stopped, she’d be with right now. Landyn would shit his pants.

After checking in with the receptionist, I was shown into a small examination room. A couple of minutes later, Dr. Benzoli came into the room.

“A special appointment? Is it the shoulder?”

I cleared my throat, the speech I had worked on in the minutes I was alone suddenly forgotten. Instead, my perfectly logical and rational request came out half-desperate. “I took some pills Billy had. He said I could maybe get something a little stronger from you?”

Brilliant. Now I sounded like a junkie as well.

Dr. Benzoli eyed me from above his glasses, that same suspicious look he’d given me at my last appointment. I faced the scrutiny and continued. “The game is in a few hours. I’ll get it looked at afterwards. I just need something to dull the pain a bit and get me through.”

“You took Billy’s...”

“The EPO. Yeah. He said you were familiar with it.”

Dr. Benzoli sat in a chair near the examination bed. “I am. And how did you feel while on it?”

“Oh, great!” I said quickly. “Way better. Breathing, movement. It was all really, really good. Just doesn’t last long enough. Surprised it’s not banned.”

Dr. Benzoli stared at me for a long moment. I cracked a half-smile. I wasn’t sure what was happening. “Something wrong, Doc?”

“You’re here for something stronger, yes?”

I nodded. “If...possible. Billy said you’d be able to tell me what’s similar.”

The doctor pushed his spectacles up the bridge of his nose and looked down at the Ipad in his hands. “It’s possible,” he said simply.

“Okay...”

“But I’m not going to add it to your chart.”

“Huh?”

Dr. Benzoli stood and closed the door. My muscles tensed. My eyes darted around the room, looking for cameras and microphones. This was a test. It had to be. What else could be happening right now? “Doctor?”

Dr. Benzoli pinned me with a hard stare. “I’ll authorize it, but it won’t be on your chart. This will stay between us.”

“Uh...” I looked at him like I hadn’t heard him correctly. I’d thought I sounded like a druggie. Now this guy was sounding like a dealer.

“The reason is because team management is really strict about the types of prescriptions I authorize. It’s not like they don’t want to treat you—”

“I get it,” I interrupted. “They want to be really careful.”

“It’s bureaucratic red tape, that’s what it is. They know nothing about medicine, and they are incredibly paranoid.”

“It’s a new team, Dr. Benzoli. I would think they would probably be more careful than any other team to make sure they’re doing the right thing.

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