Man Enough For Me by Rhonda Bowen

Author:Rhonda Bowen [Bowen, Rhonda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7582-6779-5
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2011-08-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“I got here as fast as I could. What’s going on?”

It was near four o’clock in the morning, and Jules was following her boss into the elevator, and down to the ground floor of Toronto Grace. After her talk with Germaine, Jules had barely been able to fall asleep. Somewhere around midnight she had managed to catch a break. However, less than three hours later Penny had called saying there had been some kind of emergency that required Jules to be at the hospital immediately. Jules’s stomach tightened nervously as she wondered what exactly the crisis was.

“There was an incident in the ER,” Penny said. From the tension in Penny’s voice, and the way she said the word “incident” Jules knew that something major had happened.

“I’m not sure of the details, but we’re meeting with the head nurse on duty, and she should be able to fill us in.”

Moments later Jules and Penny were crowded into a small windowless meeting room on the hospital’s ground floor with the head of emergency, the chief of medical staff, the chief nursing executive, and a nurse Jules wasn’t familiar with.

“Thank you, everyone, for getting here so fast,” Penny said. “The president is on his way, but we need to get started because already the media is lining up at the hospital entrance. Susan, you want to tell us what happened?” Penny asked, directing her question toward the unfamiliar nurse.

The middle-aged nurse glanced around nervously at the several pairs of eyes watching her, and began to fiddle with the edges of her uniform.

“A man came into the ER a little bit after 2 a.m with stab wounds to his abdomen,” she began. “We were just dealing with a gunshot wound, so we put him aside to wait, while one of the orderlies got a gurney for him.”

She sighed heavily before she continued, and Jules could tell that she was still shaken up from whatever had happened.

“Before the gurney came, another man came into the ER and started waving a knife and attacked the first guy. Everyone went into a panic. I never saw what happened. All I know is the first guy ended up using one of the nurses as a shield against his attacker, and she was stabbed.”

“Oh, Lord,” murmured Dr. Carlos Grant, the chief of staff.

“That’s not all,” said Susan. “One of the male orderlies eventually tackled the man with the knife and managed to get it away from him, but he got stabbed in the arm in the process. The attacker ran out of the ER after that. We don’t know where he went.”

“What about the patient with the knife wound?”

“He lost a lot of blood on the ER floor. We were going to prep him for surgery, but we ran tests and found high levels of cocaine in his blood and urine, and traces in his hair.”

“So he was a user.”

Jules’s heart began to beat faster.

“Yeah. And he had too much cocaine in his system for us to operate.”

Jules felt a cold chill run through her, and she had to force herself to focus.

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