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Ammo nearly smiled.

“Well, it’s just as well I have green ones too, then, isn’t it?” Dr. Melton said with an easy smile. “Now, maybe both of you would like to take a seat. And then you can tell me what brought you in today. I promise to warn you before I start touching you with my semi-warm hands.”

Aimee pushed against his back again, and he let out a deep sigh. He knew he was being ridiculous, and this was very unlike him. He was always an extremely reasonable man.

He couldn’t think of the last time that he’d acted irrationally.

This was probably just due to everything that had been happening lately.

Reaching back, he took hold of her hand and led her over to the doctor’s desk.

He felt her hand twitch in his and glanced back to see her staring at him in surprise.

She obviously hadn’t been expecting him to grab hold of her. It was a surprise to him too. But he found himself wanting to touch her. And wanting her to touch him.

Ammo held himself back from reaching over and lifting her onto his lap once they were seated in chairs across from Dr. Melton.

See? He could act reasonable when he needed to. He didn’t know why they were both staring at him like he was a bomb about to detonate.

“So, tell me what’s going on. It’s been a year, I think, since I last saw you when you came in because you had a suspicious mole on your shoulder.”

Ammo sent her an alarmed look. “A suspicious mole?”

“Yes, don’t worry, it was nothing,” she said. “Dr. Melton said it was just a perfectly normal, ordinary mole, nothing to get excited about.”

“I can take a look at it again, though,” Dr. Melton said. “Is that what has brought you here today?”

“No, it’s not. But you do need to look at it again and double-check.” He felt Aimee send him a look, but he didn’t care if she thought he was being too abrupt with the doctor.

“Right. What is the problem then?” the doctor asked.

“Aimee fainted last night,” Ammo told him bluntly.

“All right. Can you think of any possible reason that you might have fainted, Aimee? Had you been feeling dizzy and lightheaded any other time?”

“No, not really. Just tired.”

“Have you been ill at all? Any headaches? Double vision?” Doctor Melton asked.

“No, nothing like that. I just didn’t eat that much that day or have a lot to drink,” she said, shooting a look at Ammo and then away again to the doctor. “Ammo’s making a big deal out of nothing. It’s only because I was a bit hungry, that’s all. My blood sugar probably just dropped. Oh, and also, I was bending down and standing up quite often.”

“That certainly wouldn’t help,” the doctor said. “Neither would not eating properly. Why were you standing up and bending over so much?”

“Grabbing cans to restock the supermarket shelves.”

Dr. Melton gave her a surprised look. “Oh, I thought you worked for Kirsten at the Emporium.”

“You know Kirsten?” she asked. “I suppose that’s a silly question. Pretty much everyone knows Kirsten, don’t they?”

He gave her a small smile but didn’t say anything more.

“I do work for Kirsten, but I also needed to take on some other work to help clear some bills,” she said. “So I was working at the supermarket last night, stocking shelves. I was bending down to get a can. I’d just put one on the shelf, I bent back down, and when I stood up, everything kind of went black. When I woke up, people were leaning over me, debating about calling an ambulance. But that wasn’t necessary as I only fainted because my blood sugar was low. Ammo came and got me. And that’s the end of the story. I really feel fine today.”

“You do?” the doctor asked. “Because you look a little pale to me. And while it could simply be due to low blood sugar and the fact that you were moving up and down like that so much, there could also be other underlying causes. I also know you’ve been through a lot of stress lately with Charlie’s funeral. Have you been sleeping all right?”

She shrugged. “Sort of. I guess there have been a lot of stressors lately, and that’s kind of affected my appetite and my sleep.”

“Right. But it’s important that you take care of yourself, okay? That you eat properly and drink lots of water. Understand?” the doctor told her firmly.