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Then the day from hell had started, beginning and ending with Dr. Cromwell berating both me and
a fellow med student—Hunter Crayton.
It’d been over something utterly stupid—helping a nurse when she’d asked for help.
Apparently, we were not their slaves.
Or whatever the fuck he said.
I’d started tuning him out the moment he said that the nurses could handle the shit on their own.
Then I began mentally chanting that I only had one more year left and had nearly missed him say
that he wanted me back at work tomorrow bright and early to help cover another med student’s shift
so that he could attend a funeral for his ex-girlfriend’s sister.
Which led to now. Me ordering food at nearly nine o’clock at night, only to have to return to work
tomorrow morning at six-thirty.
I looked at the table that had seven men total, and five women.
“Umm, you don’t have enough room at your table,” I stalled. “And I’m just getting a to-go order. I
had areallylong day.”
“That table pulls out farther,” the hostess piped in. “There’s a leaf that’s on the end next to the sexy older man. We can pull a chair from the other table for you. Make it work.”
Riel’s lips tipped up slightly.
It would’ve been a full-blown grin had the muscles in his face not been affected by the scars.
I was fairly sure that even if he’d wanted to, he couldn’t smile like he once could.
“We’re not staying long,” he promised. “Just a quick dinner. Monthly thing that we do with the
team for ‘team building’ or some bullshit like that. Captain Morgan makes us do it.”
I snickered—nearly—at the Captain Morgan comment.
But I really was piss poor company today.
And in a bad mood to boot.
“I’m just… not in a good mood,” I admitted. “I’d be an asshole to eat with.”
Riel blinked at me as if he didn’t believe me.
“Come on,” he said. “I don’t really want to be here, either.”
He muttered that so quietly that I began to feel bad for him as well.
“How about you use me as an excuse and leave?” I suggested. “Then we can both go home.”
“He can’t leave.”
I looked over Riel’s shoulder to see Captain Morgan staring at me as if I was a bad influence.
