Let Me Save You by Samantha Wolfe

Author:Samantha Wolfe [Wolfe, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0181GCKTI
Goodreads: 27982655
Published: 2015-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

"It smells amazing in here," David sighed as we sat down at our table in the barbecue place where we had decided to eat.

"If you're going to get off on the food again, I'm out of here," I replied with a wry smile. See? I was trying to be friends with him.

"Let's see you go ten months without barbecue and see how you feel," he replied with a laugh.

"Was the food that awful there?" I asked curiously.

"No, it was great actually, but I really missed the food here," he answered. "I kept having dreams about cheeseburgers and barbecued meat."

"The staples of the American diet," I grinned. The waitress approached the table, and David ordered a beer. I chose a Coke, but for the first time since last week, I really longed for some alcohol myself. I could use something to take the edge off my discomfort of being in this weird situation. If only I didn't have to go back to work after this.

"I've got two weeks to get as much American food into my system as I can, before I have to go back to work," David said after the waitress had left.

"Where do you work?" I asked him.

"I work in the Behavioral Health unit at the hospital," he explained evenly. "I'm a psychiatric nurse there." I was taken aback by this. I felt tendrils of icy fear climbing up inside me. Could he tell that I was fucked up in the head? Fuck. It was all I could do not to sit there staring at him with my mouth hanging open. I needed to steer this conversation in a different direction, now. Unfortunately, David continued speaking before I could think of anything to say. "I'm really looking forward to getting back to work though. Did Sydney tell you I picked psych nursing because of her?" I shook my head at him as the conversation continued to careen out of my control. "After she lost her parents she was pretty messed up. I was a nursing student at the time, and I was fortunate to be there for her when she was admitted after trying to commit suicide and helping her changed everything for me. It made me realize that psych nursing was something that I really wanted to do."

I sat speechless as the waitress dropped off our drinks and took David's order. I shook myself out of it when she turned her attention on me. I told her I'd have the ribs and watched in disappointment as she walked away. I didn't know how to change the subject without it being obvious I was uncomfortable with this conversation.

"Is that what you were doing in the Ukraine?" I asked, hoping bringing up his trip could somehow work to my advantage.

"Yeah," he answered. "I mostly helped the people over there dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder. There's been so much violence in the Ukraine. A lot of people over there have been devastated by violence and the loss of people they cared about.

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