Page 58 of Sinful in Scrubs

Rosa looked at me and nodded. In her mind, those reasons were clearly that Emma had been fired, and considering the level of interference that I had even witnessed from Kevin, it unfortunately made perfect sense to me.

She lifted the stack of patient folders she had been working on and gave me a look that I interpreted to mean she had to get on with her job and that I probably should get on with mine. I made my rounds and was grateful for the respite between the more intense cases.

By the time I got home, I was completely exhausted. The house was suspiciously quiet. Had peace returned to us once more? I could only hope.

“Hey, kiddo,” I said, catching Jason’s attention as he played his video game. “Is your sister around?”

He shrugged. “I don’t know. She was earlier. She’s not yelling at me, so I don’t care.”

Which seemed like a reasonable observation.

I headed into the kitchen to see if Lily had started dinner. The kitchen was dark and silent. I let out a grunt before heading back to the living room.

“Did Lily say anything about dinner?”

“No,” Jason said. “Hey, do you want to play with me?”

“You know I don’t play video games.”

He mumbled something. Probably complaining that I never played with him.

“When is Dr. Emma going to come over again?” Jason asked. “You need to invite her over. She plays with me. I like her. She’s nice.”

She was nice, but whatever had broken between us, and now with her leaving Manhattan Memorial, it was well and truly over.

“No, no. Dr. Emma will probably not be coming over for a while.”

“But why?” he whined.

“Adults get busy, and sometimes, that’s just what happens.”

“Is it because of what Lily did?”

I shook my head, thinking of the last time Emma had been here and Lily had pitched one of her overly dramatic fits, tipping a chair over to emphasize her disdain for the entire situation.

“No. Dr. Emma knows that your sister was upset and a little overwrought that night. It was a hard day for everyone.”

“That’s not what I’m talking about,” Jason said, his eyes staying on the TV screen as his thumbs flew over the game controller in his hand.

“What are you talking about?” I stared at the back of his head.

“Oh, nothing,” he quickly said as if he realized he had let out a secret.

“Jason. What aren’t you telling me?” I asked slowly and deliberately. “What did Lily do?”

He began talking a mile a minute. “You know how she is when she doesn’t get her way. She tries to make everything really difficult for everyone. So she wanted to get Dr. Emma in trouble at work and called and said something about the two of you. She wanted you to see that Dr. Emma wasn’t a nice person, especially if you saw that she got in trouble at work. And that seems to be when Lily got really mad. I thought she got caught and got in trouble. And that’s when you seemed to start getting really sad and mad, and I figured that’s why Dr. Emma stopped coming over.”

I literally bit my tongue and sucked on my teeth to prevent myself from growling and yelling. I needed to have a chat with Lily.

“Please don’t let Lily know I said anything. She said she would kill me if I so much as breathed a word of it.”

“How long have you been keeping this secret from me?”

He twisted up his face before looking up at me. He was already flinching away from me as he spoke. “I don’t know, the day after Dr. Emma was here?”

I lifted my brows and gave my son the best ‘keep talking’ look I could muster. His mother could have gotten him to confess anything with an emotive glance. I was trying my best to copy that look.

“I walked in the kitchen when she was making the calls.”

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