Storm Warning by Dinah McCall

Author:Dinah McCall [McCall, Dinah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781460362082
Google: mo0kAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00GV1C500
Barnesnoble: B00GV1C500
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2013-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

10

Sullivan woke with a jerk, wincing as the light from the window to his right hit his pupils.

“So…you’re awake. How are you feeling, Mr. Dean?”

“Feeling? Where am—” Oh my God…Ginny! “How long have I been here?”

The nurse checked his chart. “The better part of two days.”

“Christ almighty!” Sully groaned. “I’ve got to get up.”

He began throwing back covers and fidgeting with the IV they had inserted in the back of his hand.

“No! No! You can’t do that,” the nurse cried, and began pushing at his hand.

Sully’s fingers encircled her wrist, but it was the calmness in his voice that told her he meant business.

“Lady, I’m getting up, whether you help me or not. Which is it going to be?”

Knowing she couldn’t manhandle a man his size on her own, she reached for the call button, but it was too late. Sully was already pulling the tape off his IV.

“Wait! Wait!” the nurse said. “You’ll have blood everywhere.”

“It’ll wash,” Sully said. “I need to see Ginny.”

“Who?”

“Virginia Shapiro. We came to the hospital in the same ambulance.”

“Oh. Her.”

Sully’s heart sank. “What do you mean, her?”

“She’s the one with the guard at the door.”

He sighed. “Thank God. How is she? Her condition, I mean.”

“If you’ll give us a few minutes, you can see for yourself.”

“That doesn’t tell me anything,” Sully muttered.

“That’s because her condition is between her and her doctor.”

“You don’t understand,” Sully said. “She was in my care when this happened. If I had—”

Suddenly, the nurse understood, and her frustration with the man disappeared.

“I didn’t realize,” she said softly. “Look, just let me find your doctor and get his okay. If he has no objections, you can visit her and see for yourself. But please don’t get up until I get back. You have a concussion. It won’t do anyone any good if you fall on your face and wind up back in bed.”

Sully frowned. “I feel fine.”

“You do not,” she argued. “You’re pale and sweating, and I’ll bet the only five dollars I have in my purse that you’ll be dizzy when you stand up.”

He glared.

She stood her ground.

“Are you going to stay in bed, or do I have to ring for the orderlies?”

The idea of being manhandled did not appeal to him. “I’m here, aren’t I?” And then he added as she walked to the door, “But I’m not going to wait forever.”

“You’ll do what you’re told,” she said, and closed the door behind her.

Defiant to the end, Sully swung his legs over the side of the bed and stood up. True to her word, the room tilted beneath his feet. He sat back down.

“Son of a bitch.”

It would seem she’d been right after all. Added to that, within ten minutes, a doctor strode into his room. Proof that the nurse was a woman of her word.

“So, Mr. Dean, I hear you’re wanting to go AWOL on us.”

“Are you going to take the IV out of my arm or is she?” Sully asked, eyeing the nurse, who had followed the doctor into the room.

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