Wicked Games_A Forbidden Romance by T. K. Leigh

Author:T. K. Leigh [Leigh, T. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

“How’s she doing?” I ask several hours later when Izzy reappears around the privacy curtain in the emergency room where I’m lying on a bed, my leg propped up.

“She’s fine. Had to get a few stitches over her eyebrow and suffered a mild concussion from the fall, but she’ll survive. How are you doing?” She heads toward me, pulling off the thin blanket, revealing my heavily bandaged knee and thigh. “Is the local wearing off?”

“Yup. But they gave me some painkillers.” I shoot up in bed. “You didn’t let them prescribe any for my mom, did you?”

“No. I apprised the attending of her history, but it was in her chart already. Her injury is minor anyway. She’ll just have to suck it up with regular ol’ ibuprofen.”

“Good.” I relax back into the mattress, checking the time to see it’s after seven. “I can’t believe I wasted my entire fucking day on this. And for what? For my mother to shoot my knee with a nail gun?”

Izzy assumes the chair beside the bed. “Not quite your knee. She’s lucky her aim was off. A few centimeters down and you could have faced some major reconstructive surgery. At least it didn’t nick any bones and the doctor was able to yank the sucker out.” She grins a devilish smile. “Did the doc let you keep it?”

“Why would I want to keep a bloody nail?”

“As a souvenir,” she says, as if it’s obvious.

I playfully roll my eyes. “I’d rather not have a reminder.”

She shrugs. “To each their own. How long will you be off your feet?”

“Doctor Warren said I should be back to my old self in a week or so, but to take it easy and listen to my body, since the stitches need to stay in for about two weeks. Speaking of the handsome doc, is it a requirement for every doctor here to be ridiculously good looking?” I narrow my eyes at her. “Please tell me you’ve taken advantage of working here.”

“I’m on the pediatric oncology floor.”

“So? They have doctors there, too, don’t they?”

“They do, and I’m sorry to disappoint you, but most of the hot doctors also have hot wives at home.”

I sigh dramatically, leaning back against the pillows. “Yeah. Doctor Warren told me he was happily married during my attempts to flirt with him after I was given anesthesia.”

Izzy straightens her spine, her brows furrowing. “Chloe, they only gave you a local to numb the area.”

“So?” A mischievous smirk skates across my lips.

She stares at me for a moment, remaining silent. Then she bursts out laughing. It’s a strange sound in a hospital, as out of place as a nun in a strip club, but maybe we all need to laugh more. After this afternoon, I need to laugh more.

“You really have no shame, do you?” she asks, wiping at her eyes.

“I figure he probably sees enough depressing shit working here, so I may as well do something to make him laugh. Consider it my civic duty.”

“Civic duty,” she repeats, shaking her head, giggling even more.

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