Page 61 of Chase the Sunset
“We need to talk.”
I had nothing to say to Aaron. Not one single word.
I slammed my locker shut and turned to face him. I pressed my back to my locker and held my bag to my stomach. “I don’t have anything to say to you, Aaron. Please leave me alone.”
“I don’t want there to be a problem between us.”
A problem between us? Was he insane? He had pushed me down a flight of stairs, manipulated me into not telling anyone, and now he didn’t want there to be a problem between us. “Leave me alone, leave my hospital. That’s the only way there won’t be a problem between us.”
“I can’t leave the hospital. I just started, Bird.”
I shook my head and held out my hand to him. “Do not call me Bird, and do not act like working here is your only option. You promised never to see me again as long as I didn’t press charges against you. I’ve held up my end of the deal, so now you have to do the same.”
“You’re way past the statute of limitations, Bird. The police will laugh at you if you try to say anything.”
I swallowed and shook my head. “I don’t care. I’ll go to the hospital board and tell them. I’ll tell them what you did to me. They’re not going to want a doctor who can’t control his temper and pushes women down the stairs.”
“Don’t say that,” he hissed. “I did not push you down the stairs. You fell.”
I gasped and reared back. “Is that what you’ve been telling yourself for the past ten years.”
“I did not push you,” he enunciated slowly. “And that is what I am going to tell the board if you talk to them. It’s going to be my word against yours, Birdie, and they aren’t going to believe you.”
He was wrong. I would make the board believe me, and Aaron wasn’t going to stop me.
“I just want to do my job and not have to worry about you running your mouth about me,” he growled.
I rolled my eyes and stepped to the side. “You shouldn’t even have a job. I am the one who kept my mouth shut, so you didn’t go to jail. Now you’re going to tell me I fell? Fuck you, Aaron. Fuck you very much.” I sprinted from the locker area and busted through the door to the hospital lobby.
“Birdie,” Layla called.
I glanced behind me, but Aaron hadn’t followed me.
“Girl,” Layla laughed. “You look like you saw a ghost. Are you okay?”
I was far from okay. I had been trying to put Aaron on the backburner since he hadn’t tried anything with me, and then he did this. Easy hadn’t asked me about him lately, and I wanted to keep it that way. Why couldn’t the asshole just leave me alone?
“I’m just ready to go home,” I mumbled. “It’s been a long day.”
Layla nodded to Easy and Snapper, who were parked by the front door. “The guys are here. You ready?”
I nodded and slung my bag over my shoulder. “Ready.”
Layla and Snapper had easily fallen into a comfortable relationship, just like Easy and I had.
She has said it was like she just knew it was right with him.
I knew exactly what she was talking about.
That was Easy for me.
It wouldn’t make sense to anyone on the outside looking at it, but it made sense to me.
We walked out the door, and Easy’s warm smile spread across his face. “Doc,” he whispered as I faceplanted into him and breathed in his familiar scent. This is what I needed.
“I missed you,” I whispered. It had been a long day, and Aaron confronting me in the locker room had topped it off.
“I missed you, too, Doc. Ready to chase the sunset?” he whispered into my ear.
