AllFreeNovel
Share Us
I couldn’t have enough of those.
“I’m back!” Frankie breezed in.
That ring, the tiny, miniscule rock, joke of a ring, winked on her finger.
I narrowed my eyes and wished I could rip it off.
But I knew if I did anything like that, she would be devastated. And there were a lot of things I
was okay with in this world, but hurting Frankie wasn’t one of them.
“Yay,” I said dryly.
“With your injuries, this would normally be a nurse’s job. However, you’re in luck and got the
second-year resident to do you,” she chirped.
“Second-year resident?” I asked. “What’s that?”
“A resident is me,” she said. “I went through four years of college. Then four years of medical
school. Now I’m in my second year of residency. You have to do three years of that total in this
particular program.”
I looked at her skeptically. “You’re a child.”
She rolled her eyes.
“We’re the same age, bozo,” she countered. “And I graduated high school early. College early.
Medical school early. You get the picture, right?”
“You’re a Brainiac,” I said. “Got it.”
She snorted. “You always were a wiseass. You and Luca.” She went suddenly quiet. “I’m glad
that you still have that going for you.”
A wiseass.
Right.
“I don’t remember who I was before,” I admitted.
“Nothing?” she asked, pausing in ripping open packages.
“Nothing,” I confirmed. “The only reason I knew my name was because I had my dog tags still.”
She swallowed.
“You don’t remember any of how this happened?” She indicated my scarring.
She sat down on the doctor’s chair behind me, then got started on cleaning the wound on my back.
I tried not to flinch.
I didn’t like people at my back. Even her.
