What Rose Forgot_A Novel by Nevada Barr

Author:Nevada Barr [Barr, Nevada]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller, suspense
Amazon: B07NZF5V5G
Goodreads: 44195174
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2019-09-17T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

“I nearly lost my job over you,” Karen mutters, eyes bleary, mouth barely moving.

“She’s got me!” Rose cries out to Marion.

“You bet your ass I do,” the nurse growls, pulling Rose in.

“What’s happening? Damn it! I can’t see!” Marion screams.

“Let me go,” Rose begs. “I never meant to drug you. Okay, I did, but it’s not what you think—oh, shoot—that’s some grip you’ve got. How about I give you back your keycard? It doesn’t work anymore, but—let go, doggone it—aaah. Let’s discuss this like civil—yaaah!”

Rose babbles and screeches as quietly as panic will allow, her fingernails vainly trying to gain purchase on the tightly woven carpet.

Slow with drugs, but sure as the tide, the muscular Karen is reeling her in like a fish. Kicking desperately, Rose tries to get the nurse’s hand loose from her ankle. Her soft-soled Toms are woefully inadequate against the iron-hard fingers. Karen’s grip is so powerful, it cuts off the blood to Rose’s foot. Years of changing bedpans and lifting old people have given her titanium muscles.

Karen drags. Rose slides. The nurse gets her other arm free from where it was pinned under her. A ham-sized hand joins its mate on Rose’s ankle. Two-fisted, Karen jerks. Rose bumps half a foot closer.

“Whoa!” Rose yelps.

“What’s happening?” Marion wails.

The cola nurse looks up, her face presenting a perfect target. Rose draws her free leg back to smash her foot into the woman’s nose, break it, maybe take out a couple of her front teeth, bust her jaw, hit her in the throat, crush her esophagus. That will stop her.

Stop a nice health care professional, whom Rose has robbed and drugged.

Twice.

Karen is not a monster. Karen bought thong panties online. Rose can’t smash her face or knock her teeth out. Straightening her cocked leg, she taps the nurse firmly but, she hopes, not painfully on the top of her head with the heel of her shoe.

In drugged confusion, the nurse grunts, her single-minded attack momentarily derailed. The fingers around Rose’s ankles loosen. Her shoe pops off, smacking Karen in the chin. The nurse makes an enraged animal sound and glares at the shoe as if it is a live thing come from nowhere to assault her.

Rose’s bare foot slips through Karen’s fingers.

The pinpointed pupils focus angrily back on Rose. “No you don’t,” the nurse slurs. She clenches her fists. They close on empty cloth.

The waistband of Rose’s scrubs is down around her knees. Quick as an eel, Rose wriggles out of the scrubs. Her other shoe is lost in a trouser leg. Out of the pants, she crab-walks back until she hits the far side of the arch, nearly losing her underpants in the process.

Like a startled bear, the nurse snorts, “Ungh?” Then, bear-like, charges on all fours.

Squeaking, Marion shouting in her ear, Rose springs to her feet and retreats into the activities room.

Groaning and shaking her head from side to side as if to clear her vision, the nurse crashes into the side of the arch. Eyes narrowed, squinting into the dimness, she pulls herself to her feet.

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