Sweet Saboteur by C. A. Phipps

Author:C. A. Phipps [Phipps, C. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cheryl Phipps

Chapter Sixteen

The hospital café was small and reasonably quiet. Sam, the only one waiting for coffee, looked delighted to see her.

“Will you come and sit with me?” he asked as he collected his cup.

“Sorry, I need to get coffees back to the family. They need it as much as I do.”

“Of course. I don’t know what I was thinking.” He seemed disappointed but rallied quickly. “How’s Olivia doing?”

“She really is fine.” Scarlett placed her order. “We’re still waiting on the results of those blood tests.”

“Don’t look so worried. I’m pretty confident it wasn’t poison.”

“How can you be so sure?” she asked hopefully.

“I did a quick test in the ambulance. Olivia’s blood sugar was very low, despite eating a cake. But, it was her blood pressure that undoubtedly caused her to faint, along with the weather and dehydration.”

Scarlett’s mind whirled. “But she’s not diabetic as far as I know.”

He smiled patiently. “As far as I know, she’s not. That doesn’t mean we aren’t affected by what we eat or drink.”

“I guess that’s better than poison,” she ventured. “Do you know how long before we get the results?”

“The lab at the hospital should have already run them, and Olivia will be told as soon as a doctor’s free. At the most, I can’t imagine it will be more than a couple of hours.”

Nate arrived and grinned. “Seems like we all had the same idea.”

Sam frowned. “About?”

“Coffee.” Nate raised an eyebrow. “That’s why you’re both here, right?”

Sam gave an awkward laugh. “Oh, yes. Coffee. Don’t mind me, it’s been quite a day.”

Scarlett wasn’t sure what Sam’s on/off pleasantness with Nate was about and chose to ignore it for now. “Did you want to talk to me, Nate?”

“I do. But let’s wait until we get our drinks.”

“As I told Sam, I should get back to the others.”

“Then I’ll walk you back. We can talk on the way, and I can help carry them.”

“Well, I may as well go,” Sam huffed. “I’ve got another hour or so before my shift ends. Then I can take you home when you’re ready,” he repeated emphatically.

“Thank you,” Scarlett replied automatically, wondering again what had gotten into him. She was positive that the two men were friends. In fact, they’d hit it off not long after Sam arrived in town and had never been awkward around each other before the last week or so.

Anyway, she had other worries. Coffees in hand, they made their way back to Olivia’s room, where the three occupants stopped mid-conversation, varying degrees of what looked like guilt on their faces. Scarlett wasn’t sure if she was seeing things or if the world had gone mad.

The doctor arrived, stopping any thought of confrontation as the tiny woman opened Olivia’s chart.

“At the request of our diligent sheriff plus our paramedic,” she gave a pointed look to Sam, “I understood the urgency of these results and relayed that to the lab. Ms. Greene, there was a tiny trace of poison in your system—nothing that will affect you further.

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