Wedding Cake and Big Mistakes by Nancy Naigle - Adams Grove 03 - Wedding Cake & Big Mistakes

Author:Nancy Naigle - Adams Grove 03 - Wedding Cake & Big Mistakes [Naigle, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mystery, Murder Investigation
ISBN: 9781612182766
Google: CCtslwEACAAJ
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Goodreads: 17300484
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2013-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

A restful night’s sleep must not have been in the cards for her because Carolanne hadn’t slept for more than an hour or two at a time before waking up to the image of her dad’s car in a heap on the side of the road. A girl can only take so many of those dreams. Nightmares, really. So she’d given up trying, and by seven fifteen, she was whisking down the halls of the hospital, determined to see how Dad had fared through the night.

She took the elevator to the third floor. Asking Dad how he was would be just plain useless. She knew the answer she’d get. Fine.

At the nurse’s station, she stopped to get the real story. “Good morning. I’m Carolanne Baxter. My dad—”

“Good morning. I’ve been Mr. Ben’s nurse all night. I’m sure he’ll be glad to see you. I’m Merry. He’s been chomping at the bit to get out of here.”

“Oh goodness, has he been a handful?”

The huge black nurse laughed in such a way that her stomach bounced, and it looked to Carolanne like the woman’s shiny cheeks bounced, too. “Oh, he did a lot of bellyaching about me checking on him all night, but once I told him that torturing him was the favorite part of my job, we found a way to get along.”

Only took her one night to figure him out. Why has it taken me all these years?

The nurse patted Carolanne’s arm. “Your dad’s feeling pretty good, though. I knew he was feeling better when I went through my normal ‘What’s your name? Who’s the president?’ lines to check his brain function and he tore into me about politics. I swear he’d sat up the hour prior just trying to come up with something to get my goat.”

“I guess that’s a good sign,” she said, but really, she’d put so much distance between the two of them over the years she didn’t even know his views on politics—or most other things.

“Doc already made his rounds, but we don’t have the release papers yet.”

“I know I’m a little early for visiting hours, but do you mind if I go on in?”

“You’ll have to wait your turn. Someone’s already visiting with him.”

Gina? She tried to hide her annoyance. “Who?”

“The sheriff, but when he leaves, he’s all yours.”

Why does the thought of that girl with my dad irk me so? She tried to shake her attitude back into shape. “OK, thanks. I’ll just wait outside until they’re done.” Carolanne walked across the hall and stood outside his room.

Scott’s deep voice carried out into the quiet hallway as he asked her father questions. “You were at the artisan center until six o’clock on Friday night, but you didn’t work yesterday morning? Is that right?”

“No. Jill gave Mac the code to get in. He wasn’t sure what time he was bringing the cake over, so that seemed easiest. Is something wrong?”

“You were at the wedding. I saw you there. Were you leaving the reception when you wrecked?”

Her dad said, “No, I’d left earlier.

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