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“Are you at the hospital?”
“Yes. Will you come?”
“Of course. I’m coming now. Message me the details of the hospital. And keep me updated,” she said in a rush before ending the call.
“What’s happened?” Hugh asked.
“My dad had a heart attack,” she said, feeling a burst of adrenaline and immediately heading back to her room while trying to focus enough to figure out what she needed. Car keys and her purse. She could figure anything else out later.
“Is he okay?” Hugh asked, following her.
“Apparently it was a few weeks ago, but no one told me. He’s in surgery now. I just need to get there.”
“Of course. What do you need?” He took the key to open the door when she fumbled over the lock.
“I don’t know. My car key.” She opened the desk drawer and grabbed the fob. Then she picked up her handbag and checked inside it. Her purse was there, that was all she really needed. “I think that’s all,” she said, then rushed back out of the door, letting Hugh lock up for her. “I can’t believe he didn’t tell me he’d had a heart attack,” she muttered, striding towards the car park. “How could he not tell me that? He told me it was just a blood pressure issue and he had it under control.”
“He probably didn’t want to worry you.”
“I’m going to kill him.” She picked up her pace once she had her car in her sights.
“That’s your car?” Hugh asked, as she pressed the fob and the lights flashed with the lock mechanism.
Inwardly, she cringed but didn’t have the bandwidth to either explain or worry about what he thought about her affording a Porsche on a waitress’s salary. “Yeah,” she said.
Hugh’s eyebrows dipped. “Nice.”
“I should tell Kevin I won’t be working today,” she said, pausing at the car. Another thought hit her, and she cursed loudly.
“I can tell Kevin,” Hugh said, looking at her with concern.
“Thanks but I have another problem. It isn’t charged.” She paced beside the car. “Not enough to get me to Surrey.”
Hugh only looked more confused.
“The car’s electric,” she explained. “I wasn’t expecting to make any long journeys, so it’s not fully charged.” She swore again and pulled out her phone while her brain considered and rejected the idea of a two-hundred-mile taxi ride. “Where’s the nearest train station?”
“Ivybridge,” Hugh said. “But the trains aren’t frequent or particularly reliable.”
“I don’t have much choice,” she said, while going into her phone to figure out train times. “Why didn’t I charge the stupid car?”
“Hey,” Hugh said, putting a hand on her arm. “Calm down for a minute.”
“I can’t calm down,” she growled. “My dad’s currently in surgery and I don’t know if he’s going to be okay. If the most help you can give me is to tell me to calm down, you should just go.”
She didn’t take her eyes off her phone so didn’t see his reaction, but snapping at him only made her feel worse than she already did. “Sorry,” she said. “I just can’t calm down. Don’t tell me to calm down.”
“I know, I’m sorry. Here,” he said, but she was too focused on figuring out the train schedule to pay any attention. “Allie,” he said firmly.
“What?” She glanced up for long enough to notice he was holding something out to her.
“Here,” he said again and thrust a key into her hand.
She looked at him in confusion.
“Take my car.”
“I need to go to Surrey.”
