Page 68 of Matchmaking the CEO

Chapter Seventeen

Natalie

When I looked up, Larissablinked her eyes open.

"I dozed off," she said. Her voice was much stronger.

"Yes. How are you feeling? Do you need anything?"

"A bit of water. My mouth is dry."

"Here it is."

The nurses left a glass full of water on the nightstand next to the bed. I helped Larissa up a bit, and she drank thirstily, finishing the glass.

"I'll go get a nurse, okay? Tell them you're up."

"Yeah, let's get out of here. I feel so much better."

"Let's see what they say."

I found her nurse a few beds away and nodded toward my friend.

"I'll be right with you," the nurse said with a smile.

"Thank you."

I returned to Larissa's bed. She was playing on her smartphone.

“There are plenty of Ubers around," she said.

"Let's wait to see if they really discharge you. By the way, Jake said he'd pick us up.”

Larissa nearly dropped her phone. "What? Jake Whitley?"

I nodded. And just like that, my smile returned. "Yeah, we’ve moved past flirting. I planned to tell you at dinner. Anyway, we were texting, and then this happened, and I only texted him back a while ago, telling him what happened."

"Wait, you were having a flirting session while we were at the restaurant?"

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