Honeymoon For One by Chris Keniston

Author:Chris Keniston
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Publisher: Indie House Publishing
Published: 2021-04-10T06:00:00+00:00

Michelle gasped and Kirk moved closer. She’d done a good job of putting up a strong front, but he’d been watching her closely since she’d gotten word of the accident, and he could see the little pieces of her shield crumbling away. His arm slid around her waist, his fingers holding her steady beside him. It felt so natural, so right. He wanted to protect her from any more bad news. To make all the unpleasantness go away.

Hand still over her mouth, Michelle hadn’t spoken. He could almost hear the questions running through her mind, see her struggling with which one to ask first.

She’d railed him pretty good for butting in before, but at the moment he didn’t care. “Are there any other victims?”

“No, thank heavens.” The nurse clutched a clipboard closer to her breast. “It’s a miracle there weren’t more serious injuries. If that young man hadn’t reacted quickly, well, I can’t tell you the horrors I’ve seen from head-on collisions.”

“Young man?” Michelle asked, her voice barely audible.

“Yes. I overheard him tell the police, he noticed the other car driving erratically just before jumping the median. He was able to swerve out of the way in the nick of time. The two cars bumped briefly causing his car to flip.” She sighed. “It could have been so much worse.”

“Do they know why the man was out of control?” Kirk asked.

The nurse nodded. “Heart attack. He was clutching his nitroglycerin pills when the EMTs pulled him from the wreckage. Didn’t have a chance to take them.”

At that moment, an orderly approached pushing Corrie in a wheelchair. Her eyes took in the two of them standing side by side in the middle of the hall, then settled on his hand around her sister’s waist. Michelle couldn’t have jumped out of his hold any faster if she’d been blasted with a fire hose.

She grabbed her sister’s good hand and turned to him. “Thank you for everything. We’ll be fine now. I’m sure I won’t have a problem getting a ride home.”

He recognized a brush-off when he heard one, especially one as lame as this one. But that didn’t mean he had to cooperate. “It’s no problem. I’ll wait down here for you to get back from X-ray.”

Apparently he and half the town had the same idea. Forty minutes later the ER waiting room looked like a packed auditorium. Friends and relatives of all sizes and ages gathered in clusters throughout the large room and down the halls.

Corrie’s wrist was only sprained. The rest of the kids got away with scrapes and bruises. As each teen was released, a wave of relieved bystanders filed out of the building.

In a brief phone call while Michelle and Corrie were in X-ray, Kirk had updated Pam, convincing her and some other coworkers it wasn’t necessary to come to the hospital. He would stay to drive Michelle and her sister home.

Michelle stood at the nurses’ counter signing release papers. Just as she signed the last page, a nurse wheeled Corrie through the double doors, into the lobby, and stopped beside him.

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