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“Hey, you okay?” Martin asked once we got outside.
“Yes.” I shook my head. “I mean, no.” I pointed over my shoulder with my thumb. “That patient we just brought in? I know her. Or I knew her.”
His eyebrows flew up. “No shit?”
“Yeah. She used to be my neighbor when I lived in LA.”
Now, Martin’s eyes got as big as the tires on our rig. “As in her boyfriend was the one fucking your ex?”
“Yeah.”
“And now, you’re both in Hanover?”
“Seems like it.”
“Small world, man.”
“Hmm. Yeah, small world.” I turned and looked toward the hospital one last time.
Martin got close to me. “You know there’s no law saying you can’t come back later and check on her,” he said quietly.
I pushed him away. “Wouldn’t that be weird?”
He shrugged. “Aren’t you friends?”
“We were. But that was five years ago.”
“So? I think it’d be weirder for you not to see how she’s doing.” He turned and headed for the rig. “Come on. It’s time for us to save some more lives.”
THREE
CHLOE
“Do you want me to come up there?”
“No, Mom. You have work.”
“But you’re in the hospital. I do have sick leave, you know.”
“I’m in the ER, but they’re going to send me home soon. I was dehydrated and probably overworked. They’ve given me two bags of IV fluids, and I’m feeling much better.”
I didn’t tell my mom about how I had hallucinated Liam though. I hadn’t mentioned it to the doctor or nurse either. I didn’t want them to make me stay longer. I’d already had several CTs done of my head and neck. I figured it was just part of being dehydrated. Or more like, I hoped it was.
“Are you sure you don’t want me to come? It’s almost been five years since you and Darren broke up.” She gasped. “Is that what is stressing you out—the approaching anniversary of finding out he was cheating on you?”
I rubbed my temple. “No. I have broken up with boyfriends before. You don’t remember the anniversary of those dates.”
“Darren is the only guy you lived with.”
I rolled my eyes. “That’s because the other boyfriends before him were from when I was in high school and then college. He’s not that special, Mom.”
“If you say so. I still hate the idea of you being alone.”
“Oh, I’m not alone. That’s part of my stress.”
“Savannah. That’s right.”
“And work. One of the pharmacists went out on maternity leave. They had, like, seven months to plan for her being gone, but did they? No.”
