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“Good. I sent a prescription for pain meds down to the pharmacy and your friend can go pick them up whenever,” he says, glancing over at Lucas, who stands.
“On it.”
Before I can object, he leaves the room and Dr. Hudson flashes me a smile before making me promise to return for a follow-up scan in three days. Once he’s gone, I lie back in bed and sigh. I’m excited to go home and see my baby girl and I know Alice will be relieved that I didn’t need surgery. Grabbing my phone, I send her a text to let her know I’ll be discharged soon but she doesn’t reply right away so I toss it back down on the bed.
After a few minutes, Lucas comes back with a brown paper bag from the pharmacy and I smile at him as he sets it down on the table next to my bed and sits down in the chair again.
“Thank you for doing that.”
“Not a problem. Has the nurse been by with the discharge paperwork yet?”
I shake my head. “No, not yet, and I can’t get ahold of my sister to come pick me up.”
“I’ve got you covered, Darlin’.”
I watch him for a moment but decide not to fight it since he’d probably just win anyway. As I nod, I grab my phone and text the new plan to Alice. She replies right away to tell me she’ll have things ready for me.
“Thank you. Again.”
He laughs, crossing his legs as he leans back in the chair. “You don’t have to keep thanking me, Quinn. Like I said, I want to be here.”
“Don’t you have a boring job to get back to?” I ask, recalling a memory from the accident and he laughs again.
“Usually, yes, but things are slow at the moment.”
“Oh, I see,” I muse, fighting back a smile. “You’re just bored.”
His blue eyes sparkle as he nods. “Painfully. You’re actually saving me here.”
“I suppose I don’t have anything else to do today.”
He laughs, that deep, rich laugh that warms me to my very core and makes me feel all bubbly. Before he can respond, Bonnie walks in with a handful of paperwork.
“All right, Honey. Let’s get you out of here.”
I sit up as she pulls the table over to the bed and sets the forms down on top. She goes through everything the doctor already told me before having me sign in a few places and Lucas leaves to pull his truck up to the entrance as Bonnie helps me get dressed. Each movement hurts and I hiss and whine the whole time before blowing out a breath as I collapse into the wheelchair.
“So, I notice your not man is back again today,” Bonnie muses as she pushes me out of my room and I laugh.
“Yes, you’re very observant.”
She playfully slaps my shoulder. “Don’t sass me, young lady. You going to tell me the story behind the two of you?”
“He was there when the truck crashed into me yesterday and he sat with me until the ambulance got there and on the ride to the hospital.”
“Hmm,” she hums and I drop my head back to look up at her.
“What?”
She shakes her head and I look forward again. “Sounds like a mighty fine man to me. Those don’t come along everyday, you know.”
“I do know,” I whisper, my mind flashing back to the last relationship I was in. God, I can’t believe it’s been just over two years since that relationship ended. Things were so different back then and sometimes, I wish I could go back to a time when my life was so much simpler but then I wouldn’t have my baby girl and she’s worth any hell I had to trudge through.
“You going to go out with him?” Bonnie asks, bringing me back to the present as we slowly make our way down the hallway to the entrance.
“Oh, I don’t know,” I blurt out before I get a chance to consider the option. “Besides, he hasn’t even asked me.”
“He will,” she replies, sounding so certain and I laugh.
