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Long fingernails punched the keyboard slowly The woman shook her head “No one has been admitted with that name, miss”
Ginger finally lost her patience along with any co the hospital She got angry And when she got angry, she cried Hiccupping once, twice, sloppy tears began rolling down her face once more She leaned over the desk until her face was inches from the redhead
“Check again Now Or I’ll throw this goddamn machine out the ”
“Ginger?”
Chapter Nineteen
Her heart stopped Sagging back froer turned to see Derek standing at the end of the corridor, underneath a sign that read Waiting Room
With his ever-present badge clipped to his waist, Derek looked bone-weary, his white shirt wrinkled and speckled with blood Stubble covered his wide jaw He looked at her in shock as if he couldn’t believe she stood there, just a short distance away Her eyes ran over hile thing about him
She sobbed “Oh God Oh, Derek”
Ginger’s body shook so severely, she couldn’t run to Derek as fast as she wanted to, but somehow made it to the end of the corridor She leaped into his open arht His steady heartbeat dru her With her face pressed into his strong shoulder, she wept harder than she could remember
“Shhh, baby I’ve got you It’s going to be okay God, you’re frozen”
Derek hadn’t been shot and killed He was alive and vital, holding her in his arer repeated those facts over and over in her head Or maybe she said them out loud She couldn’t be certain
Slowly, she becas They stood in the center of a waiting room occupied by at least forty unifors wrapped around his waist Crying like a baby Yelping, Ginger buried her face against his neck to block out all the arins
Derek strode out of the waiting room and stopped in the first unoccupied hospital room they came across Even after the door closed behind the fro no mention of the noise, he set her down on a narrow hospital bed, scanning her tearstained face
“Sweetheart, talk tohappen to Willa?”
“No,” she hiccupped, staring into his handsome, concerned face “They told et here as soon as possible”
“Me? No, one offor him to be moved into recovery” Derek looked dumbfounded “Who called you?”
“Patty,” she sniffed “So you weren’t shot? You’re really okay?”
His jaw hardened “I’h I won’t be able to say the saer”
“I don’t understand”
Derek sighed “Think about it Did she actually say I’d been shot or did she just let you think it?”
She thought for aat the realization “Why would she do that to me?”
He uessed that based on uessing this was her ether”
Ginger brushed the final tears fro seriously And here I thought she wanted to fix me up with her nephew”
“Over my dead body”
“It almost was”
Derek set here?”