Up by Five by Erin Nicholas

Author:Erin Nicholas [Nicholas, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781619217737
Google: EgIQAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00IYG08J0
Barnesnoble: B00IYG08J0
Goodreads: 20526645
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2013-12-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“Well, that explains it.”

Gabby turned toward the back of the ambulance. Which was now open. With Ryan and Nate standing there looking in. With a bunch of ER staff gathered behind them—as ER staffs were inclined to do when an ambulance pulled in.

She hadn’t even noticed that they’d arrived at St. A’s.

And dammit if she didn’t feel herself blushing.

“Why are you here?” Conner asked Nate with a frown.

“I’m a doctor. You need stitches. And Ryan likes me so he called to be sure I’d be here waiting for you.”

“It’s a cut. Any intern can handle it. You’re a big-shot trauma surgeon. Don’t you have real patients to treat?” Conner let go of Gabby and eased himself off the gurney.

“No. And this is far more interesting. I can’t wait to tell Emma.”

“You can’t tell Emma,” Conner said quickly.

“Why not?” Nate asked, helping Conner into a waiting wheelchair.

“Because…she’ll tell everyone.”

“Emma? No,” Nate said with an eye-roll.

“My sisters don’t even make cereal without asking each other how much milk to use,” Conner said.

Nate laughed and started pushing him toward the ER. “Exaggerate much?”

Ryan turned in the direction of the locker room.

Gabby followed Nate and Conner, but hung back slightly.

She had heard the guys interact a thousand times, but honestly, she usually tuned it out. Guys giving each other a hard time was like white noise.

Now, suddenly, she felt like she should pay attention.

“But you don’t want them to know about Gabby?” Nate asked Conner.

“No. They like her.”

Nate glanced at her over his shoulder. “That’s a bad thing?”

“It will be when the two months are up.”

Gabby lengthened her strides to be sure to keep up as Nate rolled Conner through the ER waiting area, past the Admissions desk and down the hallway leading to the exam rooms.

“When the two months is up?” Nate asked. “What’s that mean?”

“That’s when Gabby and I will be done.”

He glanced at her again. She tried to keep her face impassive.

“You don’t have to be done,” Nate said.

Gabby felt her stomach flip at that. Of course they needed to be done then. Very done. I’m-over-this-and-never-want-to-do-it-again done.

Though she was beginning to have some strong suspicions that it might not happen like that.

“We do have to be,” Conner insisted.

“Why?”

“She’s going to medical school in August.”

“So?”

“So she wants to be done then.”

Nate didn’t answer for a long moment. “She wants to be done then.”

“Yep.”

“Okay. Then stay away from her,” Nate said.

Gabby held her breath, waiting for Conner to respond to that.

“I can’t do that either,” Conner said.

Another much bigger stomach flip.

Now she definitely couldn’t make herself turn in the other direction—the direction that would lead her to the locker room where she could clean up.

As they headed for the procedure room where they did stitches and casts, Gabby noticed all the nurses and aides noticing Conner coming through. Not that Nate wasn’t fine to look at, but he had never given off any flirtatious vibes. She knew they were all watching Conner. She could practically feel their urges to go in and fuss over him.

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