Page 15 of Her Braun
She'd already see the dedication that Callen and Roan had put into their jobs, but seeing everything that Callen had to do made Roan's decision so much more understandable.
If he and Pilar wanted a family of their own, he would be locked up into a schedule that would leave most of the work of tending to the children heavily on Pilar's shoulders. So she understood his change of heart.
And she wasn't likely to have a personal life either as evidenced by the last few weeks.
PING
Her phone pinged as she sat down for a break.
Taking it out of the pocket of her lab coat she smiled.
BRAUN: How are you?
She grinned as she looked at the message.
Gibson had been in her phone as Gibson at first, but after a week and a few days she'd changed it to Braun. It sounded... fierce. Sexy. And damn it, she hadn't had anything like him in her life.
Not ever.
Even then she had the memory of their afternoon together when he'd fixed that hole in her wall.
So as exhausted as she was, she was giddy enough to respond back with something stupid and smexy just for the fun of it.
Smexy. She'd heard some of the nurses using the word and thought it was funny.
KAY: Exhausted
KAY: You?
She wondered what he was doing. Was this one of his shift days? Or-
PING
BRAUN: Just finished a job. Renovations on a room in someone's house. It's going to be a nursery. Put up some shelves, baby proofed all the outlets and painted it. When I saw the name on the paint can I thought of you. NACHO CHEESE.
Kay laughed and a nurse at the other table looked up from her cellphone. "Sorry."
The nurse shrugged, but Kay got up from her chair and walked out of the breakroom and went across the hall and out a side door into one of the courtyards that had been designed into the hospital grounds.
The cool Center City air stung her cheeks as she dialed his number.
The phone picked up almost immediately.
"Hey, Kay."
She laughed out loud before covering her mouth to smother the sound.
"What?"
She rolled her eyes and walked across the courtyard to sit down on a bench where she could stretch out her legs in front of her.
"I'm in the courtyard between the old wing and the new one. It's generally a quiet space, but it's just me out here. I guess I didn't have to cover my mouth."
She heard his laughter on the other end.
"Thanks for the picture you put in my head."
"Like that, huh?"
