Total pages in book: 74
Estimated words: 72892 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 364(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 72892 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 364(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
“Rudy Sexton.” He smiles. “It has a nice ring to it, right?”
“The best.” I take a deep breath. “I’ll keep your secrets until you’re ready to share with the staff, but just know, I’m happy for you, Logan.”
“I’m happy for you, too.” He bows his head. “Eloise is strong as hell, and one day you’re going to have it all with her.”
“I already do,” I tell him. “She’s alive and I think she loves me. What more could I ask for?”
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
Gaines
I stroll through the ED after meeting with Eloise’s parents and her brother. Draco took the news that his sister was brought in by ambulance hard. I sensed that he’s the type of brother who would move heaven and earth to put a smile on her face.
I shook his hand, told him I loved her, and vowed to do right by her.
She hasn’t woken yet, but I won’t break that promise.
I just need to figure out what I’m going to say to her when she opens those beautiful blue gray eyes.
I glance up as I get closer to trauma room one.
Eloise hasn’t been moved up to CCU yet because we’re waiting on a bed.
A man in his early twenties is staring at the door to her room. I approach him cautiously, convinced that he’s looking for a relative or friend who is in the ED.
It’s not uncommon for people to lose their way in the corridors of this department.
When he glances my way, I stop in place.
I’ve seen him before.
“Will she be okay?” He rubs his chin. “Her name is Eloise Rehn. I’ve been trying to get in to see her, but no one will let me.”
I won’t either because the guy in front of me is the same guy that was in the framed photograph with Eloise that I saw in her nightstand.
Her had a hand on her when she was wearing a bikini.
“You are?” I ask, ignoring what he just said to me.
“Lynton Zale.” He swallows hard.
“How do you know her, Lynton Zale?”
He drops his head. When he looks up again tears are clouding his eyes. “I’m her best friend. I’ve always been her best friend, but we… I never should have left.”
“Lynton!”
I turn to see Draco sprinting toward us. He rounds me to get closer to the guy claiming to be Eloise’s best friend. “They said we can’t see her right now.”
I look to Draco for more information but I don’t need to hear him speak a word. He wraps an arm around Lynton’s shoulder and tugs him closer. He presses his lips to Lynton’s forehead. “She’ll be okay, babe. This is her boyfriend. Dr. Morgan.”
“She’ll be all right?” Lynton looks at me, his eyes pleading with me. “I never got a chance to tell her I was sorry I left town, but my heart was broken.”
“I’m sorry about that.” Draco cradles him in his arms. “That was all my fault.”
“I didn’t know how to apologize to her,” he confesses. “She didn’t know about us. We hooked up and then split up, and I couldn’t take it, so I just left.”
“He doesn’t need to know about all our bullshit.” Draco comforts him with a pat on the cheek. “We found our way back to each other. That’s all that matters. That’s all she’s going to care about.”
“I’ll be able to tell her I’m sorry?” Lynton asks me. “That’ll happen.”
I glance through the glass to where Eloise is. She’s hooked up to monitors and oxygen but she’s improving by the minute. “You’ll need to get in line behind me, but yeah, it’ll happen.”
“Is she in love?” He looks to Draco to answer that.
I do it for him. “I believe she is. I know I’m in love with her and I’ll love her until I die.”
I catch sight of someone else heading this way, so I excuse myself. “I need to take care of something.”
Both men nod as I walk away.
“How is she?” Daxton tries to look past me.
“You should be in the waiting room with Penny.”
“I can’t.” He drops his gaze to the floor. “Els entire family is here, aren’t they?”
I nod. “They came as soon as they heard what happened to her.”
He takes a step to avoid a nurse running right into him. She apologizes for staring at her tablet screen, but I hurry her along by asking her to check on one of my patients in CCU.
“What should I do, Dr. Morgan?”
“Do what’s right,” I tell him. “When Eloise is strong enough, and her heart can handle it, you need to talk to her.”
“I should talk to her brother now and her dad?”
I nod. “That’s a good start.”
“Or I guess my brother and my dad,” he whispers.
His confession at Atlas 22 may see the light of day, after all, even though he vowed it never would.