The Roommate Pact by Allison Ashley EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Allison Ashley
- Language: English
- Genre: Romantic Comedy
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Claire Harper was holding a penis when the commotion started.
Nothing to get excited about—the appendage belonged to an eighty-sixyear-old man and she was a nurse inserting a much-needed catheter so the
poor guy could pee.
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Still, not where one wanted to be when all hell broke loose.
A loud screech and a crash sounded just outside the pulled curtain.
Then, all went quiet.
As Claire struggled to remain focused on her task, because at this point she
couldn’t just stop, her mind scrolled through possible scenarios. Some
stemmed from real-life experience after six years as a critical care and
emergency room nurse, while others came from decades of watching Grey’s
Anatomy and ER reruns.
The funny thing was, some of the wildest ones weren’t from the TV shows.
Was it someone with a gun? A bomb?
A heinous injury? It was an emergency room, sure—but even the most
seasoned workers could experience a brief moment of shock depending on
what they encountered.
Maybe it was simply something unexpected—like the time a drunk guy in
a clown suit stumbled through the doors, bypassing the check-in desk and
getting halfway to the med room, where narcotics were stored, before
security took him down.
She heard nothing but silence for several seconds. Relative silence, rather
—an emergency room was never completely quiet. Pumps beeped, swiped
badges clicked open secure access doors, and the phone rang with incessant
regularity. But if something happened that was truly an emergency, Ruthie
would have been shouting directions to every person in her path by now.
What was going on?
Her patient’s eyes had widened a little, and Claire finished up and covered
him with a sheet. “All done. I’ll be right back.”
She slowly peeked out toward the central nursing station. Several people in
scrubs congregated near one of the curtained areas opposite her, but she
didn’t see a crash cart and the code alert wasn’t flashing.
Fairly certain it was safe to come out, she crossed the linoleum and
stopped next to Ruthie, the charge nurse.
“What’s going on?” Claire whispered.
Ruthie’s eyes were glassy and she covered her mouth with her hand,
sniffling. She didn’t reply, as if she hadn’t even realized Claire had spoken.
Claire went up on her tip-toes to get a better look. A woman wearing a
hospital gown lay on the bed, crying, but on closer inspection, they weren’t
tears of pain or sadness.
Not entirely, at least.
A man knelt on one knee beside her, reaching forward to hold one of her
hands in both of his. The moment was so tender, Claire barely harbored a
passing thought about how nasty the hospital floor must be.
The man spoke quietly, his voice thick and raspy. The woman kept shaking
her head in disbelief, her hand visibly trembling in his.
The woman had several lacerations across her face and arms, and the guy
didn’t look so great, either. By the looks of it, they’d been brought to the ER
from a car accident.
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