Dark Love (The Two Sides of Me Book 3) Read Online Free PDF Page B

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    “Who’s Mona?”
    “The nurse from this morning, she’s the only one that has been kind to me since we got here. Oh! I almost forgot! I saw crazy smoke lady in the bathroom today before I visited…” I stop speaking. Evan can hear us, and he doesn’t know about my plan. I cock my head toward the door, and we abandon our empty plates and step into the hallway. “Before I visited David. Anyway, she is so gone. I mean, she’s really sick, somebody needs to have her committed or something.”
    “I thought so too. What did she say to you?”
    “More shit about my smoke, and she told me to go home, she couldn’t see my smoke. Whatever that means. Then she started mumbling to someone who wasn’t there. But she did tell me her name. Get this, she calls herself Queen Bridget!” She makes a facial expression that is so much like Evan’s it’s astonishing. They are twins, and they look a lot alike, but you can really tell they grew up together and were once close when you watch her face scrunch up in question, exactly like he does.
    “Queen, really? Yeah, you’re right. We need to report her and see who’s she's visiting here. They need to keep her in their room or have a shrink see her.”
    “Can you do that? Or translate for me so I can?”
    “No, I’ll do it, but no one administrative will be here until after the holidays.”
    “That’s ok, just watch out, she seems like she could be dangerous.”
    “Ok, you don’t have to tell me twice, she creeps me out.”
    “I had better get going. I need to go to the house and make sure everyone is settled and that they have everything the need, and I have to stop and talk to the dirty doctor.” Smirking, we both chuckle, even though it’s really not funny. He is a dirty meddling son of a bitch, but Karma’s also a bitch and I know he will get his eventually, they all do. I watch Gabriella gather her purse and coat; she drapes it over her arm. Before she leaves, she kisses Evan on the cheek and heads out the door.
    “Wish me luck.”
    “Luck.”
    She’s going to need a lot more than luck. Shit, I hope she has some acting skills. Dr. David Carter needs to believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I want him to want me.

I’m worried, for all of the obvious reasons, but now I’ve added a few new ones to the list. What if the whole hospital already knows Evan and I are married? What if David saw my rings before I could get them off? What if he knows I’m trying to fool him into doing Evan’s surgery? What if he leaves before I get the chance to seduce him? What if Evan freaks the fuck out when I tell him what I’m doing? Or worse yet, what if he never wakes up to freak the fuck out? I need him awake; I need to talk to him.
    I wedge myself in next to him on the hospital bed to have another of my many one-sided chats. “You’re a bed hog ya know? I can hardly fit in here with you. We have a great big bed at home. If you open your eyes, I’ll bet the doctors would let me take you there. They would take that tube out of your throat. I could take care of you in your own bed, just like old times, remember? I could touch you, kiss you…everywhere.”
    His chest rises and falls in perfect rhythm, I lay my hand over his heart. “Your heart still beats. I feel it. I feel your presence, baby. I know you’re still here, I know you can hear me. I’m never giving up, I promise. I’m not leaving your side until you open those eyes of yours. I may never see the light of day again, ya know? This room doesn’t have a window, and I’m going a little stir crazy not knowing what’s going on out there. It’s your fault if I go mental; I’ll end up like that lady in the bathroom today. Remember her? I told you about her a while back. I hadn’t seen her for a while, but we…ran into each other again. She told me to go home, talking a bunch of gibberish to an imaginary person, nuts baby, she’s totally bonkers.”
    I have his arm wrapped around my waist,