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“Yeah, I figured. He came in twice looking like roadkill and when I didn’t see you, I figured that something happened.”
“He stood me up.”
“Jerk.”
I smile, loving that she’s on my side right away.
“Was that it?” she asks and I shake my head.
“He also left me alone in bed the night after I uh…” I trail off, looking around at the other diner patrons but Caroline gets it.
“Idiot.”
“Uh-huh,” I agree. “Then he tried to apologize but I just can’t wait around for him to find me lacking.”
“What?” she asks, frowning at me. “He said that you were lacking?”
“No, not exactly, but he finds every single nurse that he’s tried to hire lacking. I don’t think he even realizes they just need a little more training and they could get it. They mess up once and they’re gone and sometimes it’s dumb stuff like being a few minutes late.”
“But he hasn’t said that you’re a screwup, right?”
“No, he says that I’m perfect, but no one is perfect and it was only a matter of time before he figured that out. Besides, it hurt that it was so easy for him to leave me the morning after something so important and then to stand me up all in the same day. If I was important to him, he would have remembered me.”
Caroline frowns, looking away for a moment before she starts to speak.
“I think it’s been a long while since Ken cared about anyone or anything besides work. That in no way excuses what he did and he’ll have to make it up to you.”
“I don’t know if he can,” I admit, blinking back tears.
“I think he’s about to give it one hell of a shot,” Caroline says, staring at something over my shoulder.
“What?” I ask, turning in my seat, my eyes widening as I see Ken striding determinedly toward the diner.
He opens the door, his eyes locking with mine and he heads my way, grabbing my hands and pulling me up and over his shoulder without saying a word.
“What are you doing?” I shriek as he marches back out of the diner and over to his car.
“I have all the time in the world to prove to you how much I love you and how perfect you are to me.”
“You don’t tell someone that you love them while you’re kidnapping them!” I yell and he laughs.
“Tell that to Graham,” he mutters under his breath.
“What?” I ask, wondering who Graham is.
“Nothing.”
“Where are you taking me?” I ask as he sets me down in the passenger seat.
“Home.”
He starts the car and we drive past the clinic.
“Want to stop in and make sure everything is running to your standards?” I snark and he just smiles.
“No need. I’ve spent the last week working around the clock to get everything into place. Now I have two nurse practitioners to help out with the patients and I can take more time off and work more normal hours.”
I turn and stare at him, wondering if he’s serious.
