imagination. Reed Bentley was my new patient. I sighed, leaning back into my office
chair. I considered switching with
one of the other nurses, but everyone was busy and swapping another patient for
Reed would only disrupt another patient’s recovery.
Flipping
through his paperwork, I realized that I didn’t recognize the address and I
wondered if he’d moved in with Amber. It hurt to think of him living with
another woman, but it would also make it easier for me to squash any remaining
feelings I had for Reed.
Cora was
determined that I move on, and I’d been on three dates last week. Two of the
guys Cora had set me up with. The third was Stephen Hotchkiss, a pediatric
surgeon, and we’d made plans for a second date.
Cora’s reaction
when she heard about the date with Stephen was comical. “You’re going out with Dr. Hot Kiss?”
Dr. Hot Kiss
was what most of the women at the hospital called Stephen, and Isabelle had
talked about him enough that Cora was familiar with the name, not that it was
one anyone could easily forget.
“Hey, Ellie. Heard your new patient is a babe. Sandy
went out to see him this morning and can’t stop talking about him.”
I looked up at
my friend and co-worker, Samantha Diaz, and smiled.
“He’s a
military man. Sandy says he could easily land a job posing for a girlie
magazine.”
A visual of Reed’s
naked body made me start and coffee sloshed over the edge of my mug and onto my
scrubs. I reached for some napkins
on my desk.
“If he’s as hot
as she says, maybe I’ll have to go with you to visit him one day,” Samantha
suggested eagerly.
“You’re
married,” Sandy said, popping her head into my cubicle. “Even with that damned
IIizarov on his leg, he’s sexy as hell, Ellie.”
“I know,” I
told them.
“You’ve already
been out to his place today?”
I shook my
head, still blotting coffee off my scrubs. “I went to high school with him.”
“Think he’ll
remember you?” Samantha asked, curiously.
“His sister is
one of my best friends so I’m sure he will.”
“Lucky
you. You should ask your friend to
set you up with her hot brother,” Samantha suggested wagging her brows up and
down suggestively.
“Hey, I saw him
first girlfriend,” Sandy laughed. “I’ll fight you for him. We could get on one
of those crazy daytime talk shows. I can see the headline ‘Nurses Gone Wild!’”
“Ya’ll are bad,” I laughed. Of course,
they were only joking. Everyone I worked with was too professional to get
involved with a patient, but they still liked to have fun.
“We are,” Sandy
and Samantha agreed. “But wait until you get a look at him all grown up, he’s over
six-feet of solid muscle and the bluest eyes you’ve ever seen. He’d been working out when I showed up
and wasn’t wearing a shirt. I just
about fainted at the sight of those glistening muscles.”
“Did you offer
to give him a sponge bath?” Samantha asked with a wicked grin.
“Hell yes. I am his Home Health Care Aid.”
“Lucky you.”
Samantha grinned.
“Not
really. He thanked me but said he
could do it himself.”
“You should’ve
told him that’s what you get paid for.”
Sandy nodded in
agreement. “I thought about asking
him if I could watch—for safety reasons, but he was looking at me with
those intense blue eyes and my brain turned to mush.”
I left to visit
Reed with a visual of him shirtless and sweaty and sexy as hell. Just great. I needed a margarita with a double shot,
but I had to settle for a latte instead, which only put a jolt into my already
edgy nerves.
Typing Reed and
Amber’s address into my GPS, I sipped my latte and listened to a song on the
radio about a love gone wrong. Twenty minutes later, I turned into a quiet North Houston neighborhood
not far from my dad’s house. The
houses were older but all custom built and on oversized lots with shady trees
and large green lawns.
Reed lived on
chair. I considered switching with
one of the other nurses, but everyone was busy and swapping another patient for
Reed would only disrupt another patient’s recovery.
Flipping
through his paperwork, I realized that I didn’t recognize the address and I
wondered if he’d moved in with Amber. It hurt to think of him living with
another woman, but it would also make it easier for me to squash any remaining
feelings I had for Reed.
Cora was
determined that I move on, and I’d been on three dates last week. Two of the
guys Cora had set me up with. The third was Stephen Hotchkiss, a pediatric
surgeon, and we’d made plans for a second date.
Cora’s reaction
when she heard about the date with Stephen was comical. “You’re going out with Dr. Hot Kiss?”
Dr. Hot Kiss
was what most of the women at the hospital called Stephen, and Isabelle had
talked about him enough that Cora was familiar with the name, not that it was
one anyone could easily forget.
“Hey, Ellie. Heard your new patient is a babe. Sandy
went out to see him this morning and can’t stop talking about him.”
I looked up at
my friend and co-worker, Samantha Diaz, and smiled.
“He’s a
military man. Sandy says he could easily land a job posing for a girlie
magazine.”
A visual of Reed’s
naked body made me start and coffee sloshed over the edge of my mug and onto my
scrubs. I reached for some napkins
on my desk.
“If he’s as hot
as she says, maybe I’ll have to go with you to visit him one day,” Samantha
suggested eagerly.
“You’re
married,” Sandy said, popping her head into my cubicle. “Even with that damned
IIizarov on his leg, he’s sexy as hell, Ellie.”
“I know,” I
told them.
“You’ve already
been out to his place today?”
I shook my
head, still blotting coffee off my scrubs. “I went to high school with him.”
“Think he’ll
remember you?” Samantha asked, curiously.
“His sister is
one of my best friends so I’m sure he will.”
“Lucky
you. You should ask your friend to
set you up with her hot brother,” Samantha suggested wagging her brows up and
down suggestively.
“Hey, I saw him
first girlfriend,” Sandy laughed. “I’ll fight you for him. We could get on one
of those crazy daytime talk shows. I can see the headline ‘Nurses Gone Wild!’”
“Ya’ll are bad,” I laughed. Of course,
they were only joking. Everyone I worked with was too professional to get
involved with a patient, but they still liked to have fun.
“We are,” Sandy
and Samantha agreed. “But wait until you get a look at him all grown up, he’s over
six-feet of solid muscle and the bluest eyes you’ve ever seen. He’d been working out when I showed up
and wasn’t wearing a shirt. I just
about fainted at the sight of those glistening muscles.”
“Did you offer
to give him a sponge bath?” Samantha asked with a wicked grin.
“Hell yes. I am his Home Health Care Aid.”
“Lucky you.”
Samantha grinned.
“Not
really. He thanked me but said he
could do it himself.”
“You should’ve
told him that’s what you get paid for.”
Sandy nodded in
agreement. “I thought about asking
him if I could watch—for safety reasons, but he was looking at me with
those intense blue eyes and my brain turned to mush.”
I left to visit
Reed with a visual of him shirtless and sweaty and sexy as hell. Just great. I needed a margarita with a double shot,
but I had to settle for a latte instead, which only put a jolt into my already
edgy nerves.
Typing Reed and
Amber’s address into my GPS, I sipped my latte and listened to a song on the
radio about a love gone wrong. Twenty minutes later, I turned into a quiet North Houston neighborhood
not far from my dad’s house. The
houses were older but all custom built and on oversized lots with shady trees
and large green lawns.
Reed lived on
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