The hard plastic soles of her shoes clicked angrily on the tile flooring of the corridor leading to her office and she tried to tell herself although today was already Tuesday and she hadn’t seen or heard from Alessandro since last Thursday, she wasn’t upset at all. It was not the reason when Derrick had met her with a cup of coffee at the doors of the hospital this morning, she’d had to force herself to smile at the man when a week before she would have been thrilled with his attentions.
It didn’t make sense to her. She’d spent the last five days knowing he was in and out of the hospital visiting Dulce and the last five nights dreaming of him. She had thought the weekend away from the hospital would have helped her but just seeing him again on Thursday had made her miss him as much as sh
