Just a City Boy (Midnight Train Series) by V. L. Holt

Author:V. L. Holt
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Zack cussed at himself all the way back to the hostel. Two days on the job. Four days since he met, er, mugged, Lauren. She was all he could think about. Even his headaches ebbed when he thought about her. Spending time with her was like solving long division with no remainders. It was therapeutic. He sighed. Because he needed to focus on his long term goal, and obsessing over Lauren was distracting him.

The long term goal was that he would save up enough money to get to Dr. Mario Gutierrez’ clinic in Bethesda, Maryland. Then he was going to rely on the mercy and kindness of the doctor to help him out. He figured he could offer to help clean the building or wax the good doctor’s car or who knows what else. If the treatment was experimental, he needed experiments, right? He’d be the best dang guinea pig Dr. Gutierrez could ask for. Unfortunately, that was the extent of Zack’s planning.

While the hostel was cheaper than a motel, he still had to eat. He still had to do laundry. And take the train and any other number of expenses, and he’d had a hard time holding down any job. Lonely Nights seemed like a good place to be for him and a good match.

The little bit of action he would get might be just enough to stave off some of the stress the doctor wrote about in his research article. For guys like him, an easy environment was more stressful to his system because he was always waiting for the other shoe to drop. He couldn’t relax or focus. Working as a bouncer, he could count on a little bit of activity at least once a week, but nothing that would land him in the VA hospital, or anyone else for that matter. Easy peasy.

Zack tried to get comfortable in the narrow hostel bed. It squeaked and whistled, being a plastic mattress that was easy to disinfect. It was also made for someone about a foot shorter than he, but the sheets smelled of bleach so that was good. Nighttime was the worst, of course.

It used to be because he could see the flames and smoke and sparks from the IED that hit their convoy. He still did sometimes, but ever since the night his bad judgment brought him together with Lauren, he’d been falling asleep thinking of her.

It was easy to do, since he thought about her all day every day. Then she wears an outfit like she did tonight. He closed his eyes and brought it all back.

The gown was floor length with high slits on each side. Her gorgeous legs were visible all the way up to mid-thigh. She was wearing some kind of shoe with long straps that wound around and around her calves and had a silver shimmer. The neckline was everything a hot-blooded man could desire and her hair up in the back made her graceful white neck look long and slim.

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