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I laughed. “Trust me; you’re better off.”
Elaine sighed. “I have to go. I have a patient. Are you sure you’re okay?”
“I’m sure,” I said. I was just pissed off with Bishop, and angry that Colter had sent Mykel now, too.
I would figure it all out. I just had to focus on what I was doing right now.
I grabbed my backpack and went for a short walk. It distracted me from all the shit I didn’t feel like thinking about right now.
Like the fact that, despite what a dick Bishop could be, I couldn’t stop thinking about him.
For just a moment today, I’d seen a side of him that was hurt, gentle,human.
I pushed the thoughts away. It didn’t matter if he really was the asshole I’d thought he was, or if there was someone sweet and kind and caring underneath all that who might have gotten hurt before. I wasn’t here to get involved. I wasn’t going to be around for long enough that anything like that mattered.
I drove home after my walk and found a rental car in my driveway. I parked next to it and walked to the front door. It had been drizzling all afternoon, as if the weather could pick up on my mood, and the world was cold and wet all around me. It only messed with my mood more. I didn’t want to deal with my brother. I just wanted to shake off the day at the clinic, make something hot to drink, and wrap myself in a cocoon of blankets.
“Hey, sis,” Mykel said with a grin from the couch where he’d kicked off his shoes and his feet were up on the coffee table.
I looked at the muddy boots on the floor.
“You couldn’t have wiped those?” I asked.
Mykel ignored me. “This is a nice place.”
“Yeah, it’s… different.” I looked around. It was very different from my apartment in New York, but I liked the quaintness of this place, the way it felt a lot more like home than I’d expected it to.
I walked to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee.
“What are you doing here, Myk?” I asked my brother when he followed me.
“Just checking up on you,” Mykel said. “You look tired.”
“The job I’m supposed to do here as a cover is hard work.”
“Yeah? I’ll get Colter to figure something else out. You don’t have to work at all. He’ll make sure you get your pay, anyway.”
“That’s not the point,” I said. “Besides, I’m useful at the clinic.”
Mykel knew it had always been important to me to help where I could.
“It helps me to be a part of the community, too. If I don’t get out and do anything, I won’t meet the people I need to talk to, so I can figure out what’s going on.”
“Colter said you’re not sure about Turk.”
After pushing the buttons on the machine to produce a cup of coffee, I turned to Mykel and folded my arms over my chest.
“Are you here to check up on me or cross-question me about my progress?”
Mykel chuckled with that smug smile that turned so many other women inside out. I wasn’t amused.
“Why are you so hostile, sis?”
“I’m not hostile; I’m just irritated. You didn’t have to come. I have it covered.”
“I have no doubt about that. I’m just asking.”
I shook my head and turned to the machine when the cup was filled.
