Chapter 4“Your cop friend is here.”
Noel looked up from the chart he’d been reviewing into the smirky face of his co-worker, Rita. She was a good twenty years older than him and had, as she had told him, heard and seen everything. She jerked her head of gray curls in the direction of the nurse’s station, and sure enough, Wes was standing awkwardly, talking to the head nurse on duty, Spike.
Well, Robert. But everyone called him Spike. Noel had no idea why.
He sighed. “Swell.”
“Thought you liked him. Or more than liked.”
“Yeah, well. We’ve been having issues. I, uh, I broke up with him.”
“Wait. What?” Rita looked shocked. “Over Christmas?”
“God, you sound like my sister. I’m not actually in a Christmas romance movie, you know that, right? And it’s not even Christmas yet.” All the holi
