Chapter 2
Alexa
When I woke and fumbled for my cell phone to check the time, I was shocked to discover it was already four in the afternoon. I stretched and flung back my duvet, sighing because despite the late hour, my body was so not ready to leave my heavenly soft pillowtop.
soWorking the midnight shift was wreaking havoc with my system. With each night that passed, I woke later and later in the afternoon. Thankfully, I had tonight off because today was my twenty-first birthday and tonight I was going out with some friends to celebrate. I could only imagine what MacKenzie had planned. That girl, though I considered her my best friend from our first meeting in nursing school, was trouble with a capital T.
My parents didn’t understand why I worked so hard. Money certainly wasn’t th
