Styx (Walk Of Shame 2nd Generation #2)(3)

Fighting to catch my breath, I kiss the top of her head, because I’m not a completely heartless ass. I may not want anything emotional with her, but she’s not trash.

Just not the one for me.

“Yeah, I’ll keep that in mind.” I walk her to the door. “Be careful on your way home. It’s late as shit and people are crazy. Call the gym if anyone messes with you.”

She nods and smiles. “I always am. Got my mace handy at all times.”

After letting Sophie out, I hang around the gym for about another hour, get a workout in and then head home for the night.

I’m off my shit tonight. Something just seems to be missing . . .





Meadow

MY THIRD DAY WORKING A fourteen-hour shift at the hospital and I won’t deny that I’m not completely exhausted both mentally and physically.

I love my job. I do, but sometimes it can just take so much out of you. You give so much and put your heart into everything that you do here, that you honestly don’t have much of a life outside of taking care of patients and worrying about how they’re doing when you’re not around to take care of them.

I let out a small breath, and stand to my feet, when the call light from room 316 goes off for the third time in an hour.

“I’ve got it,” I tell Mandy. “He’s only going to ask for me anyway.”

She lets out a tiny laugh and continues on with her business on the computer. “He always does. I don’t even bother anymore when you’re here.”

“I don’t blame you.”

Walking into Henry’s room, I stop next to his bed and place my hand over his bruised one. “Anything I can help you with, Henry?”

He shakes his head and mutters at the TV mounted on the wall. “What is this garbage? It’s been on all damn day.”

I follow his eyes up to the TV and laugh. He always knows how to entertain the staff. “It wasn’t on when I came in here about twenty minutes ago.” Smiling, I hand the remote within his reach and point at the channel buttons. “You do know that this hospital has more than one channel right, Henry?”

He squeezes my hand and gives me a charming smile, although his dentures aren’t in. “It makes an old guy happy when a pretty nurse is around to take care of him. It’s about as much action as I can get these days.”

“Oh I’m sure a guy like you can find a beautiful woman to take on a date. You’ll be out in a few days, once your leg heals.” I grab the remote from Henry and flip the channel to something that he might understand better and be more familiar with. “There you go. All set. Now I get off in twenty minutes, so Mandy and Kayla will be here to take care of you. Be nice to them. Don’t let me hear that you’re refusing your meds from them again.”

He throws his arm up, waving me off. “They’re not you.”

Smiling, I pat his hand and start walking toward the door. “Yeah, well I can’t be here twenty-four-seven. So behave yourself, old man.”

“Yeah. Yeah.”

Right as I’m walking out of Henry’s room and closing the door just enough to give Henry some privacy, Jase winks at me and grabs my hand, pulling me around the corner and out of view.

Jase is probably about the most attractive male nurse that works here. As much as I try not to be physically attracted to one of my co-workers, you’d have to be blind not to notice him.

“Meet me in twenty by my car?” he whispers next to my ear. “I parked next to you again.”

“Not tonight, Jase. I have a date with a new gym and I have a lot of stress to work off.”

Jase looks around to make sure that no one is watching, before he slips his hand around my waist and pulls me closer to him. “I’ve been thinking about fucking you all day. It’s been three weeks now. Take that crap out on me.”

Lifting a brow, I place my hand on his firm chest and lightly push him away from me. “Yeah, well if I remember correctly, there’s a few other nurses that have been keeping you quite busy. No thanks. I’m good.”

Jase shakes his head and backs away from me, when Mandy walks over.

He tries to play it off as if he wasn’t just trying to get into my pants, but the look Mandy gives me, tells me that she picked up on it.

“What did Henry want this time?” she asks with a grin.

“For me to change the channel for him.” I give Jase one last look, before walking off with Mandy and listening to her tell a story about one of the other patients.

By the time I get done cleaning everything up and saying goodbye to my patients, I’m so tired that I consider just skipping the gym and checking it out another day.

But to be honest, I need to work off some stress and Jase won’t be helping with that anymore.