Page 72 of Begin Again

But if it was a patient, she’d still be doing her job.

She was two steps from the door when it opened and she came face to face with Tanner.

She took a few steps back. “What are you doing here?”

“I wouldn’t have had to come here and sit around for hours surrounded by sick people if you answered your damn phone.”

Liz moved back again. “I’m not talking to you. I need to get back to work. You’re blocked on my phone and that is why I haven’t gotten any messages.”

She didn’t know why he was here and didn’t want to deal with this. In her eyes, there was nothing they had to say to each other.

It’d been well over a year on top of it.

“We need to talk,” he said, moving toward her.

“No,” she said. “I’ll call security. Leave now.” She turned and moved quickly behind the desks and left him standing there seething.

She went back to her shift and tried to put it from her mind.

In the back of her head, she didn’t think he’d hurt her, but she didn’t want to be stupid either.

He said he’d been trying to call her. She didn’t think she was that hard to find. He found her. Why not call her place of employment and leave a message?

The fact he came here really bothered her.

She clocked out and pulled her phone out. It was seven in the morning and she could just call security to walk her to her car and explain what was going on.

She would walk out with coworkers too, but she didn’t want to put anyone in danger.

She thought of the one person she could call and not feel bad about it.

The person that she trusted even more than her father.

She called Christian.

“Hi,” he said. “You’re calling early. What’s going on? Having car trouble?”

“No,” she said. “I know you’re probably getting ready for work and all.”

“I’m set. Just having coffee. What’s going on? You don’t sound good. Are you sick?”

“Tanner showed up here at work last night.”

“What?!”

“Yeah. I went back to work and I was safe. But now that it’s time to leave...”

“I’m on the way. Don’t leave the ER until I get there. I mean it.”

“I won’t,” she said.

She ran her hands through her hair. It’d take twenty minutes, easily, for him to get here and park and come in. It’s not like there was parking right by the door. Unless he actually parked right by the door where people did to unload.

She let out a giggle knowing he’d do just that.

Liz was right twenty minutes later when he said he was waiting for her inside the entrance.

She went back through the doors she had last night, looked around and didn’t see Tanner, but did see Christian and went right to him.

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