All of You (Rescue Me Collection Book 0) by Lindsay Detwiler

Author:Lindsay Detwiler [Detwiler, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: wrong side of the tracks, poet, america, sweet romance, small town romance, medical romance, new starts, clean, opposited attract, new love, damaged, Love, Romance, doctor, fade to black, wholesome
Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing
Published: 2018-01-26T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Marley

This must be what it felt like to be Bonnie. You know, from Bonnie and Clyde.

The anxiety, the butterflies, the sweaty palms. The feeling of doing something a little crazy.

Or a lot crazy.

Okay, I’m being melodramatic. Bonnie was out robbing banks and pulling off heists. I’m simply stealing a doctor and forcing him to play hooky. Could we technically call that kidnapping?

I lean against the wall outside the entrance to the ER, trying not to look like a creepy bomber or like I’m in need of help. I try to act natural—not an easy task.

My heart flutters when I see Alex rushing toward the door, the sun beating down on us.

“Stop,” I yell, stretching a hand in front of him. He startles, having to do a double take, clearly in the work zone and not the crazy girl zone.

“Marley? What’s wrong?”

I smile. “You’re working too much,” I say, as I grab hold of his shoulders when he gets close enough, spinning him around.

“Marley, I work today. I’m supposed to be clocking in right now,” he points out, looking confused as hell.

“Not today you’re not.”

“I can’t just….” He pauses, trying to stop me from leading him away.

“Oh yes you can. It’s official. Alex Evans, you’re playing hooky today.”

I walk in front of him, grabbing his hand and leading him toward my pickup truck in the parking lot. Everything we need for my planned kidnapping is there.

I meet with resistance when I try to yank him forward.

“Marley,” he says, pulling me toward him. I spin to face him. “It sounds like fun. But I can’t just up and walk out on work. I’m in residency. I can’t afford to not show up.”

“Well, doctor boy, lucky for you I have an in.” I wriggle my eyebrow at him in what I’m sure is a creepy move. He scrunches up his face in confusion.

“You talked to Dr. Conlan?”

“Of course. Listen, I want you to be wild and free and all that. But I also don’t want you losing your residency. So I cleared our hooky day with Dr. Conlan last night.”

“Well, then it’s not really playing hooky, is it?” Alex asks, his face finally relaxing.

“Listen, baby steps with you. Besides. The hooky part isn’t the wild and free part. It’s what we’re doing with our hooky day.”

I smile at him coyly, yanking him toward the parking lot. The tension in his body eases, and now he practically runs after me. I give myself an internal pat on the back for being so smart and coming up with this idea. The man needed to get away—again. Okay, so maybe I’m a bad influence on work ethic after all.

“What are we doing?”

“Come on. You think I’m just going to give it up like that? Not happening. And no looking in the back of my truck.”

“Where’s your truck?” Alex asks.

I pretend to zip my lips, not wanting to give it away.

He eyes me, then the parking lot, and takes off sprinting toward, to my chagrin, my vehicle.

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