Chapter 17
Remy left the nurse’s station after filling out paperwork that took longer than necessary and then returned to Cassidy’s hospital room. She was pulling green socks back on and then wet tennis shoes—she seemed so small, so vulnerable. He could have easily lost her and that had made him question his own feelings. “Cassidy? Are you ready?”
She nodded, her face scrubbed free of all the makeup she’d had on earlier, though her hair had the unnatural waves of being up and pinned. She must have put the pearls in her pocket because the girl he knew all his life was always practical and tried to never lose anything. Cassidy jumped off the bed with a relieved smile. “The doctors cleared me, but I want to check on Alexandre before we head home.”
His stomach knotted. She’d called the man
