Devil May Care (ebook) by Patricia Eimer

Author:Patricia Eimer [Eimer, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Romance
ISBN: 1620610884
Publisher: Entangled Select
Published: 2013-01-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Four hours later, I was so sick of hearing about the not-so-revolutionary advances that MEDTECH had made in hospital security systems that I was willing to barter my powers for a reprieve. Chaos protect me, I was ready to barter everyone’s powers for a chance to get out of here.

“So everyone.” Dan clapped his hands together at the front of the room. “I think that’s everything. If we have no further questions—”

Before he could even finish what he was saying medical personnel stood and started gathering their stuff. I rose and stretched, pulling my arms up over my head and cracking my neck. I was slowly reaching the point in my demonic lifespan where I didn’t actually have to sleep but right this second that was all I wanted to do. I wrinkled my nose at a flaky looking stain on my scrub shirt. Scratch that. I wanted a shower and then I was going to bury my head underneath a pillow and stay there till I had no other choice.

“I’ll see you later.” Lisa grabbed her stuff and brushed past me like her tail was on fire.

“Wait, where are you going?” I asked. “I thought we were going home?”

“I have somewhere I need to be,” Lisa called out over her shoulder, bolting out of the room.

“But how are you going to get home? We carpooled,” I called out, even though she was long gone. My stomach twisted as I watched people stream out of the room behind her. It was probably wedding planning, or something like that, but the thing was, Lisa’d never blown me off before now. Somehow, I knew it wasn’t because she’d decided to go looking for a cake topper.

“Bettincourt. Paging Faith Bettincourt,” the PA system blared. I groaned. Two other nurses gave me sympathetic grins and then beat a hasty retreat. Not that I blamed them. If I’d heard them page someone else I’d have gotten out of there, too. Who knew which person they’d page next?

I walked over to the phone sitting on the top of the podium Dan had been using earlier and picked up the receiver. “This is Faith Bettincourt. What can I do for you?”

“Faith?” Sally simpered on the other end of the phone. “Do you have a few minutes?”

“Sure, Sally.” I held back a sigh. “What do you need?”

“Well, Detective Kastellero stopped by my office and told me that he’d seen you this morning…”

“Of course he did.” Detective Kastellero was totally the grown up version of that tattle-tale you went to grade school with. Except this time I wasn’t going to lose my recess for not sharing the red crayon. If he pushed his suspicions enough, the hospital could request that I take a leave of absence to investigate any possible connections between me and the Cosgrove family.

“So for legal reasons,” Sally continued like I hadn’t even spoken. “We need you to stop by the human resources department and schedule a meeting with the hospital’s legal department.”

“I have to

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