Wild Child by M Leighton

Author:M Leighton [Leighton, M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00G2BL50K
Publisher: M. Leighton Books
Published: 2013-10-19T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN- Rusty

There’s absolutely no doubt I have qualms about the last words Jenna and I said to each other. Unfortunately, she did as I asked and she stayed away. Not only has it been lonely and boring, but I’ve got too much time on my hands to think about her.

I teeter between regret and bitterness. On the one hand, I feel like I pushed her away. Maybe she would’ve proved me right and gone anyway. But maybe, just maybe, she’d have proved me wrong and she’d have hung around. If I hadn’t practically pushed her out the door, that is.

But after dwelling on that for a little while, bitterness rushes in. Even if Jenna had stayed longer, it wouldn’t have been permanent. And I’m nobody’s charity case. I don’t want her hanging around here because she feels sorry for me. Oh, hell no!

Needless to say, I’m pretty much a bear by the time Trick and Cami get home from their honeymoon and come to see me.

“Got a regular room now, huh, haus? I heard you spent some time in the ICU,” Trick says as he strides in, Cami’s hand tucked firmly in his. They’re both tan and glowing. And not just the skin kind of glowing. It’s the kind that radiates from somewhere deeper, the kind that comes from being happy all the way down to your soul.

“Good God, it’s about time!” I say. “I’m surprised there’s anything left of her. How long has it been?”

Trick laughs. Cami blushes. “Just two weeks, you dick. What the hell’s the matter with you?”

“Other than the obvious?” I ask.

“Yes, smart ass. Other than the obvious.”

“I’m in here. Isn’t that enough?”

“I figured you’d be milking this and getting three sponge baths a day from Jenna,” he teases.

“Not hardly.”

Trick gives me an exasperated sigh. “All right, what’d you say to her? This has to be your fault. Otherwise, Jenna would probably be here right now, soaping up her sponge.”

“You mean you haven’t talked to her since you got back?”

“I haven’t.”

We both look at Cami. Her eyes get wide and her expression turns to that of a cornered animal. “What? We literally just drove in from the airport. I haven’t seen anybody yet.”

“Haven’t seen, but have you talked to anybody?” Trick asks.

Cami’s mouth opens a couple of times like she wants to say something, but finally she closes it and sighs. “Yes.”

“Jenna?”

“Yes.”

“And?”

“And, she asked if we’d been by yet. I told her we hadn’t.”

“That’s it?”

“Pretty much.” Cami looks from me to Trick and back again. She rocks back on her heels and drops Trick’s hand to smack her own together. “So, where’s the vending machine? I need to get a bottle of water or something. I’m thirsty.”

Likely story, I think. But I don’t say that. “I walked by some yesterday when they let me out of bed to do PT. Down the hall and to the left.”

“They already let you out of bed?” Trick asks after Cami leaves.

“Hell yeah, they did! I almost kissed the poor guy that was my nurse yesterday when he told me.

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