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Aria gestured toward the door. “We have to go now, Jasper. There’s no time for games. Piper works at the hospital. If she needs me, that’s where we have to go.”
“The hospital…?” I felt like my brain was offline, all of my thoughts still enamored with her.
“Yes,” she said, giving me a flat look. “Can you take me, or should I call a cab?”
“No, I can take you,” I said quickly. Focus, Jasper, damn it. Pulling open the door, I motioned for her to go first. As soon as she did, I followed her out, closing the door behind me.
In my car, as we near the hospital, Aria waved toward the curb in the front. “You can just leave me here.”
“Who will take you home?” I asked.
“I’ll call a cab.”
I scoffed. I was curious about what she was doing here, but I also wasn’t ready for my night with her to end just yet. Whatever she was doing here in this hospital, I wanted to see it.
“It’s really okay,” she said, with a tiny edge to her voice now. Was I making her nervous by insisting? Why would that be? Wouldn’t she be happy to have a reliable way home?
“I don’t mind waiting. Here. I’ll park and we can go in together.”
Her features scrunched for a moment, like she was trying to figure out a way to turn me down. After a moment, she sighed. “Fine. I can’t waste time.”
Fortunately, the hospital at this time of day wasn’t busy. After parking, Aria hopped out of the car and rushed toward the doors. I quickly fell in step beside her.
“Is Piper a patient?” I asked. Maybe Aria needed to visit her for some reason.
“No,” Aria replied. “She works here.”
“Oh…” That didn’t answer any of my questions. In fact, it generated a few more.
We rushed to the elevator and inside, Aria pushed the button for the third floor. Up and up we went, then exited. I followed Aria left down the hallway and around a corner. Eventually we stopped outside of a Healer’s office.
But not just any healer. This was the office for Dr. A.
Inside the office, the illustrious Dr. A was standing near the back of the room. Behind the reception desk was Aria’s roommate and friend, Cathy. We’d met before, earlier that night. When she spotted Aria, she breathed a sigh of obvious relief. That look hardened the moment she fook in me at her side.
Before Aria could explain my presence to Catly, or Aria’s need to be in Dr. A’s office to me, the others in the room turned to gawk at us. There were a half dozen middle–aged men and women, all dressed to the nines in expensive clothing and jewelry.
I’d seen this family around before, as we’d sometimes traversed the same social circles. They were always too stuffy for my tastes. They just loved flaunting their wealth and rubbing in how their patriarch Caleb was a great military genius, a hero of the pack!
The man had to be in his 80’s by now, and rarely left the house. Yet these leeches seemed to love milking his reputation for all it was worth.
For them to be here in Dr. A’s office on an evening like tonight meant something had to be wrong with dear old
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dad. Maybe he was finally seeing the end to the tunnel.
“Luna, you are friends with Dr. A?” one of the men said. He was Caleb’s oldest son, the snottiest of the bunch, in my opinion.
“Yes,” Aria said. “What’s going on?”
“My father is dying,” the man said. “Dr. A is being slow to act. You must convince her to step in.”
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