I ended up stopping at a table overflowing with drinks and poured myself a cup of what I thought to be strawberry lemonade.
When I took a drink, I realized that I was correct, only there was also alcohol added to it.
After the day I’d had, I would need it.
I hadn’t been fired.
Which was good, I guessed.
But I had been reprimanded. I’d also been told that my travel nursing contract might be ending early.
I doubted it, though.
They talked a good game, but they were still short nurses.
If I was let go, they’d be short at least eight including me.
They were seriously understaffed. And the staff that they did have worked half-assed.
I was probably one of three that worked there that actually did their work and did it well.
As I took a healthy sip of my drink, I let my eyes wander, looking for one man in particular.
I couldn’t stop thinking about Gentry.
That kiss had been…
I glanced up to look around for him, my gaze going for several seconds before I spotted him talking to a couple of women near the back patio area next to the grill.
The women were quite scantily clad.
As in, wearing a mini skirt and a tank top despite it being sweatshirt weather.
One was leaning closer to Gentry, her hand not quite touching him but close.
He had on a pair of jeans, work boots, a black long-sleeved t-shirt and a baseball cap pulled down low over his eyes.
Whatever the woman who’d almost done the touching said made him laugh.
I frowned hard, not liking the instant anger and despair that rocketed through me upon seeing him talking to someone else. Let alone doing other things.
Other things that he really had every right to do, seeing as I wasn’t really his wife…
He brought his beer up to his lips and that’s when I saw my clothes hanging from one arm.
Leggings and a t-shirt.
I was going to freeze.
“Hello.”
Startled, I whipped my head away from Gentry and found myself staring at one of my favorite people.
I smiled at Mable. “Oh, hey.”
She patted my hand and said, “How’s Neo?”
I gave her the rundown.
