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I nod, knowing he’s right, and murmur, “For now, only officer brothers are in the know.”
He nods in agreement, and I lean my head back again and close my eyes, hoping and praying all this shit doesn’t bite me in the fucking ass.
Chapter 8
Rose – Five Months Later
“Please, Rose, they are crying out for you, no one else. They’ve seen your degrees, your work ethnic and care with children. It’s just for a year, then you’ll return here but with more qualifications to do more,” Sally, my supervisor pleads as I sign off on a chart for a child that has been discharged from their doctor, who had somehow managed to swallow a small toy truck and needed it surgically removed.
I look at Sally, the pretty brunette, and smile softly at the pleading in her caramel eyes.
I know what an honor it is for New York to want me, for the cardiology team to personally ask for me, and I am so flattered, but I just…
“I can’t, Sally, I’m sorry,” I say, and she groans, dropping her head as Dr. Conners walks over with a file.
He raises a brow between us as he hands me the file and asks, “Is everything okay?”
Sally answers, “No, the Cardiology department for children wants her, but she’s saying no.”
Dr. Conners smirks and asks, “This wouldn’t happen to be about a certain B….friend of mine, now, would it?”
I miss his stutter as I stick my tongue out at him, and he chuckles as Sally gasps, “You are not turning this opportunity down over a guy?!”
I shake my head and state, “He isn’t just some guy, Sally, he,” I side eye Dr. Conners, whose grin is big and wide, and I sigh as I admit, “He’s my everything, my heart, and I also can’t leave my family for that long.”
Sally’s pager beeps, and she huffs before shaking her head and stating, “I’m not giving up,” giving me a pointed brow, then turns and walks away with a slight stomp, making me chuckle and look at Dr. Conners.
“He loves you too,” he says, making my heart pound.
“How do you know?” I ask quietly, and he grins.
“Because three days ago he got your name tattooed on his chest,” he says, shocking me, and my mouth parts before I whisper, “He did?”
He nods with a smile before he nods to the file and admits, “I took that file out of your folder, just wanted to see how Caleb was doing.”
I grin and reply, “He’s a cheeky little monkey, isn’t he?”
Dr. Conners chuckles and agrees, “That he is, but we wouldn’t have him any other way.” He looks at his watch, “Right, I’ve got club business to attend to. I’ll see you tomorrow."
I nod as he leaves, not shocked that he isn’t trying to push me for the course, his friendship with Cage his priority before I sigh and check my watch.
I still have an hour left of my shift before I finally get to see my boyfriend.
Five months and I’m so madly and deeply in love with him, like I can’t bear to be away from him. The fact that he got my name tattooed on him just means he feels it too, what we have.
Every time he is near, I’m drawn to him, my body gravitates to him while it lights up like fireworks, and when he’s not near me, I feel so goddamn cold, lost even.
He’s my heart, and it helps that my little sister loves him, though Mama and Dad are itching to meet him, something we keep putting off, more him, worried they won’t like him, which is ridiculous.
The man is amazing.
Shaking my head out of my loved-up thoughts of my boyfriend, I head over to Caleb’s room, who was admitted three days ago with severe stomach pains.
The poor boy had to have his appendix removed, which was ready to burst.
“Knock, knock,” I say as I walk into his room, and the sweet six-year-old grins wide, his blue eyes sparkling with happiness like he didn’t just have to have emergency surgery.
“Hi Nurse Rose!” he says, and I grin and reply, “Hey buddy, how are you feeling?”
