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Agnes nodded, blinking rapidly. “Thanks, Cora. I appreciate it.” She sighed as she leaned back against the side of the elevator. “I wonder how long we’ll be stuck here. I hope I didn’t sabotage the thing too thoroughly.”
“How did you even know how to sabotage an elevator?”
“Google.”
Of course. You could google anything nowadays.
“Well, the technician didn’t sound particularly on the ball. We may be here a while yet.”
Agnes sighed again, her eyes flicking to Cora’s lips. Cora caught her train of thought at once, or maybe she had already been there.
This was going to be difficult, to say the least. Stuck in an enclosed space with Agnes, possibly for hours? It would have been hard enough had they still not been talking, but with the past left in the past and their friendship opened up again… Well, keeping her hands off Agnes was not going to be an easy task.
They may have agreed to renew their friendship, but it was clear to both of them that anything more than that was off the table. Giving in to their mutual attraction now would be a shockingly bad idea.
Cora’s traitorous eyes flicked to Agnes’ cleavage without direction from her. Agnes was wearing a low-cut top today, and the thought of what was beneath that thin and easily ripped away piece of fabric made her mouth dry.
She forced her stupid eyes shut and tried to keep her breathing even. Agnes got up and pressed the intercom again. “Hello? We’re still stuck in here!”
“We called for someone to come and help you out,” the technician on the other side responded, sounding more bored than ever. “You just need to wait and be patient.”
Waiting and being patient turned out to be a three-hour ordeal. It took an hour for the technician to arrive, and two more to get them out of the elevator.
“What did youdo?” Cora muttered under her breath as the technician cursed and threw away his fifth broken prybar.
“I didn’t know the elevator doors were apparently impenetrable enough to withstand a nuclear blast,” Agnes hissed back, disgruntled. “I thought they would just pry us out, like you see in the movies!”
“Well, the movies must have it wrong,” Cora said darkly. Either that or they had the most bizarrely robust elevators on the continent.
There was a small crowd waiting for them when they were finally released. People hurried up with words of comfort and concern, wanting to know if Cora and Agnes were alright.
“We’re okay,” Agnes reassured Lillian. “It was boring in there, but no harm done.”
“We’ll need to get those elevators looked at. We can’t have them doing that when we’re transporting an urgent patient.”
Agnes looked away from Lillian, scratching the back of her neck. “Yes, we will definitely need to get them serviced immediately.”
Cora wondered how Agnes would keep her sabotage from becoming the subject of a hospital-wide investigation. Maybe the two of them could strategize after gym tonight.
The thought of training with Agnes again was enough to wash away any irritation Cora felt about the elevator incident. Though that didn’t stop her from taking Agnes aside as the crowd started to disperse.
“Next time we have a fight, just get me flowers or something, okay? That is one experience I don’t need to repeat.”
Agnes chuckled. “Well, I did consider that, but that would be one way to ensure no one believes us about the wholenot datingthing.”
“I thought they didn’t believe us anyway.”
“I guess, but I still hope to convince them. Not that I care about it from my side—honestly it would give me a break from their constant nagging about when I’m going to see someone. But I don’t want you to be perceived as tied to me. You should have the option to find someone, even if I…”
She trailed off, but she didn’t need to finish. Cora knew that Agnes thought herself broken beyond repair, and really, who was she to judge? She’d never lost a wife. Maybe Agnes was right and she’d never want to date again.
That didn’t stop Cora from hoping. She knew that she couldn’t wait forever for Agnes, but right now, she couldn’t imagine herself being interested in anyone else.
Well, that was her problem. Agnes had made her boundaries clear, and Cora was just going to have to respect that, no matter how hard it was for her.
At least she would have Agnes’ friendship back. Cora just hoped that she wasn’t making a mistake, and that her fear that Agnes would hurt her again was nothing but that—a fear.
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