Page 31 of Storm Bound
“I don’t!”
Rohan copied my brother and stared, too.
“Fuck you both, I don’t!”
Luke’s eyebrow quirked. “So, how is it working with Dr. Kravitz, little bro?” he droned.
I crossed my arms, too, and stared back at him as intensely as he was. I could see Rohan from my peripheral vision looking back and forth from me to Luke.
“Fine! It’s a nightmare,” I said.
I gave up.
For two weeks now, I’d been suffering alone. Maybe if I shared my mild obsession, it’d help me get over myself and him.
“It’s sheer torture. Happy?”
“Why?” Rohan asked. “Doesn’t he want you?”
My shoulders sagged and my fingers loosened around the base of the glass.
“He does,” I said.
“I’m confused,” Rohan said. “You don’t likehim?”
“I do.”
“So, where’s the problem?”
I sighed and sank further into my chair.
“We work together.”
“How’s that a problem?”
Luke patted Rohan’s shoulder, and he turned to look at my brother.
“It’s not. But in my little bro’s head, just because one doctor turned out to be an asshole, all doctors are assholes,” he said.
I tensed.
“Now wait a minute. I never said that,” I said. “That’s not it at all. We are supposed to work together for the next six months. He’s my boss, and I’m on his payroll. Starting anything with him would be wrong because it can go awry in so many different ways, I can’t even count them in my head. Anything that happens in our personal lives can affect what happens in our professional lives. If you’d seen the shit I’d seen working in a hospital, you’d have the same hard rule,” I said.
“Dude! I work at a school. Of course I know what happens! Also, you’re starting to sound like Nathan,” Luke said, referring to our nephew with his long list of attributes his perfect man would have. In the end, he found a person that ticked those boxes in anunlikelyway in the most unexpected man.
“Hey, I don’t have an image of the perfect man that I compare everyone to. I just have this one rule. No dating colleagues. Besides, he agreed. We keep it professional.”
Rohan nodded and put his beer down.
“Explain one thing to me,” he said. “If you both like the hell out of each other and you don’t date colleagues… why don’t you, I don’t know, quit and find another job?”
I rolled my eyes and looked at my brother.
“Don’t come to me for support. I agree with him,” he said.
“Of course, you do.”
“There’s jobs aplenty, especially for a nurse. But what if this guy is the one? What then? You’d have let him go just because you’re supposed to work together for the next few months?” Rohan said.
