Hat Check by David Berens

Author:David Berens [Berens, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 9781545141632
Google: yebXswEACAAJ
Goodreads: 34812394
Publisher: Finegan Press
Published: 2017-04-02T05:00:00+00:00

21

Deal or No Deal?

Troy watched as the huge, muscled security guard (whose nametag designated him as an orderly) wheeled the odd little man back through the stainless double doors into the emergency room proper. He’d gotten worked into a frenzy yelling something at Troy about stealing his hat and that he’d have his guts for garters before he’d let him walk out of the hospital with it.

Orderly Eric had slammed a needle into the man’s backside and Troy watched his eyes roll back into his head. He slumped down into a wheelchair that had been slid behind him, and off he went.

He looked like a wreck and Troy thought he must’ve been on drugs or something. Probably gang violence, he thought, too much of that goes on around here.

“So, how are Daisy Mae and Ellie Mae coming along?” he asked the reception nurse.

“She’s pushin’,” the nurse said without looking up from her computer, “probably gonna have a baby soon.”

“No way! Really?” Troy smiled through his sarcasm.

The nurse shrugged her shoulders and eyeballed Troy above her tiny reading glasses. “When the baby is born, if the mother says you’re allowed, you can go in. Not before.”

“Okay, okay ... ” Troy tapped his fingers on the counter, “I’ll be over here ... just waitin’.”

“Fine.”

Troy sidled back over to the emergency room waiting area and slid down onto the vinyl couch. It felt a little sticky and he wondered what fluids might have caused that ... he stood up.

He put his hands in his pocket and suddenly remembered his cell phone.

“Ah, crap,” he said, clicking into his missed text messages.

There were fifteen new messages from Karah.

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