Then There Was You: Grace General Series Book 3 by Laura Beth

Author:Laura Beth [Beth, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Molina Healthcare Inc
Published: 2024-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“Should I start with the funny, or the exciting?”

Jim stretches out on the couch, pulling my feet into his lap as he starts massaging the arches with his thumbs.

I groan at the touch, his hands doing more for me than the two glasses of wine I had with dinner. “Funny first. Last time we started with exciting.”

“Right.” He nods. “Well yesterday,” he says, dropping my left foot and immediately picking up my right. “When I was walking into work at the crack of dawn, a patient was walking out wearing a head-to-toe Chewbacca costume.”

I slap a hand over my mouth to stifle the laugh so as to not wake Jackson. “No, he wasn’t!”

Jim nods, smiling so wide his cheek dimple pops. “He sure was. Still had his registration band over his wrist. The moment we crossed paths he abruptly stopped, raised his hand to his head in a military salute, nodded once, then was on his way.”

“That’s beautiful, honestly. What was he doing in the costume? And why was he in the ER?”

Jim leans forward to grab his glass of water off the coffee table, downing nearly half of it in one sip. “I didn’t ask about the costume, and didn’t need to really ask around as to why he was in the ER. Let’s just say whenever someone comes in with something ‘stuck’ in a certain part of them, word travels fast.”

I sit up, pulling my legs from Jim’s lap and curling them under me. “You mean…something had to be removed…from his…”

“From his Wookie.”

I grab the nearest throw pillow and smother myself with it, wanting to kick and scream at how much I love this story. “I couldn’t even imagine what I would have done in your position. At that time in the morning I don’t want to talk to a single soul, let alone try to wrap my mind around a grown man…was it a man?”

Jim nods.

“A grown man in a Chewbacca costume giving a military salute as he leaves the ER after having a personal item removed from his Wookie is probably the greatest story I have ever heard.”

He laughs, and I lean forward on the couch, pushing my hands to the sides of his legs so I can lean over and steal his glass of water. I down the last of it, holding the glass to my chest as my mind floods with ideas of what Chewy had stuck in him. “This one will stick with me for a while. Okay, okay.” I playfully slap his knee as I get closer, tucking my legs next to his. “Now time for an exciting story.”

He scratches a palm over his two-day-old scruff, eyes flicking to the television that’s been on mute all evening. Since Jackson went to bed, Jim and I crashed on the couch with the rest of the wine, catching up on anything and everything as if we hadn’t seen each other a few days ago.

“Honestly, it was mostly your routine cases—chest pain, abdominal pain, shortness of breath, suspected infection.

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