Behind The Mask (Nurses Book 2) (21 page)

“Mr. Knight, I need you to sign your discharge paperwork and then you are free to go, the nurse will bring those in shortly. Do you have any questions for me?”

Gage looks at me, smirks then says “Yeah when can I, you know?” The doctor tells him not to exert himself for a few days. Gage must have realized that Jack was still in the room because I know he would have been so much more inappropriate. I smack his arm and immediately cringe. I smacked the hurt arm of course, and Gage being Gage acts like it doesn’t hurt. But I know it does, I can see it on his face even though he doesn’t think I can.

“Kiss to make it feel better?”

“I’m so sorry! Oh gosh, I am so sorry! I didn’t mean to, it was a total accident.”

“Cori, stop. Kiss to make it feel better?”

I can’t resist and I kiss him. Even though it’s to make him feel better, he doesn’t realize that it makes me feel better as well. He’s a healing balm to all of my wounds.

I can’t wait to get out of here, get my girl home, and get her naked. I’m exhausted, but I’m ready for some Cori loving. Hell, I practically crave it all the time now, and I have only had her once. Will I still crave her a month from now? A year? God, I hope so because I do think this girl is the one. Allyn was right.

When they wheeled me out of the room Emily had me in, I was in so much pain. But seeing her fight with that cop to get to me had me forgetting the agony, I just wanted her. She cures my ills, and she takes the pain away with just one look.

Seeing her here in the ER with me, crying in a chair had me upset. This girl does not deserve to have another tear fall, and I want to make sure that if one does, it’s nothing but happy tears. A lifetime of hurt has followed this woman, but now she has me. I will be her fighter when she can’t. I will be her warrior.

Leaving the hospital has me breathing a sigh of relief. I hate hospitals, plus everyone was staring at Cori. Allyn warned me a while back that her face has been all over the news, I guess I didn’t grasp the gravity of the situation at the time. Whispers follow us out of the place, people openly gawking at her. It angers me, seeing people being so rude.

We dropped off her friend Kim, who I swear is the wildest girl I have ever met. She is out there and has zero filter. I feel sorry for her boyfriend because he has his hands full with that fiery redhead.

“Baby, when we get back to your place, I want you to strip down for me.” I give her my best sexy smile. It probably comes off as goofy looking but the pain meds they gave me have me a little loopy feeling.

“No, Gage, the doctor said that you can’t exert yourself for a few days.”

“Baby, you on top is not me exerting myself, plus I can’t wait a few days to be inside of you again. You’re a drug, Cori, and after one hit, I was addicted. When that bitch had me, all I kept thinking about was you. No matter what happened to me, I was getting back to you. This is only the beginning for us.”

She says nothing more as we pull into the driveway, she only gets out and gets my crutches. She doesn’t even wait for me to get to the door before she is inside and gone. I don’t know what I said wrong, but I don’t have the strength to chase after her right now. The crutches hurt my wound, but I am not using a wheelchair in the house. By the time I’m sitting on the chair in the living room, sweat is rolling down my face.

I put my head back and just think about what I said that was wrong. Was it because I wanted her naked? Maybe she gets offended by that, but she doesn’t realize that her body is incredible.

“Gage.” Her voice rouses me from my musings and my jaw drops. Standing in front of me is Cori in a see-through robe with nothing else on.

Her perfect nipples are playing peekaboo with the robe loosely tied around her, and I can see every beautiful inch of her. My dick instantly strains my shorts and has me readjusting myself.

“You need to take a bath, I figured I would wash your hair for you. Unless you don’t want me to.”

I gulp. She is breathtaking and amazing. This beautiful girl apparently isn’t mad at me, she wants to help me. Getting up off the chair proves a little bit hard. Cori has to come help me stand, but once I get my foot and crutches right then I want to sprint to that bathroom.

She helps me down the hall and into the small bathroom where she has run a bath for me. The steam is rising, and she added bubbles and lit a few candles. The glow of the candles sets an ethereal halo around her.

“You look like an angel. I couldn’t be a luckier man.”

“Get in the tub, Gage.”

The beauty of this bathroom is that even though it is tiny, she has a garden tub. It’s deep and wide and sitting down in the warm water, I am thankful for it. Cori takes off her robe and my dick is instantly poking out of the water. It’s like a heat-seeking missile and she is my target. When she climbs behind me, I feel the heat of her on my back. I smell her arousal and it has my mouth watering. Letting her wash my hair, she is careful to not get my shoulder wet. She takes such amazing care of me, bathing my entire body before I turn around. She looks stunned, but I throw a leg over my good shoulder and I dive in.

She moans and digs her heel into my back. The sweetest taste greets me as I make quick work of bringing her to the edge but not letting her fall over just yet. We have all night to do this, so I’m going to take my time with her.

Besides, I want to hear her scream my name over and over again.

Work sucks today. I’m training two new nurses. Since everything happened, Sam quit working here and the higher ups gave me the head nurse job. She apologized to me every day for the two weeks that she kept working here. Then one day she just quit, and that was the last time anyone saw her. I think the only reason the higher ups gave me the job is because of everything that happened. I am sure people aren’t chomping at the bit to work in a place with psycho employees roaming the halls.

Emily, on the other hand, faced a handful of charges but just like Damian said, she got not guilty by reason of insanity. She will be in the psychiatric unit for a long time. Thankfully. She had a huge outburst in court and had to be sedated right in the room, that helped show how unstable she really is.

Sam had showed up to the trial to testify against Emily, but when Emily saw her she started screaming about her baby not loving her. It was wild, never saw anything like that before. I’ve seen lots of unstable people before, but this is probably one of the worst I have ever seen.

Allyn is off harassing the new nurses. He says it’s their initiation. Apparently when he was telling me dirty jokes that was my initiation. Hasn’t stopped either, but I wouldn’t want it any other way. I love that guy like a father. We’ve have had him over for dinner multiple times in the past few months.

“You ready to go, gorgeous?” a deep voice says behind me, instantly bringing a smile to my face.

“Yeah, I’m ready. Let’s blow this popsicle stand.” Gage chuckles at my corny joke. He walks up to me and kisses the tip of my nose. That’s his thing for me, he always kisses the tip of my nose before giving me a real kiss. Gage finally got his new leg and learned how to stand and walk on it. Since then, nothing can stop the man, he even has a blade leg coming soon so he can run.

As we’re walking towards the elevator, Gage stops me. I think something is wrong, so I turn around, only to see Gage down on one knee.

“You ok, do you need help getting up? Is it your prosthesis?”

“No, I’m fine. This is the place that I first saw you. You were working on that old man, down on the floor doing CPR. I was smitten then and I’m smitten now. We have been through some amazing ups and some incredible downs. But through it all, we stood by each other. You tell me that I’m your dragon slayer, the one who chases the bad things away, but you don’t realize that you are mine. You, Cori, are my dragon slayer. You are my hope and my future. So, will you do me the honor of marrying me?”

The tears are flowing, snot is probably running out of my nose, and when he pulls that ring out of his pocket I almost faint. The thing is huge!

“Well, you gonna let the boy get off his knees? He looks like a pansy down there!” Allyn, of course, has to throw his two cents in.

“Yes, of course, yes I will marry you.” Gage takes a second then gets up off his knees. He slips the ring on my finger, then picks me up and twirls me around. I’m giggling when I hear the clapping. When he finally stops and puts me down I turn to see all of my friends there. Olivia is holding baby Elle, who is so sweet I just want to eat her up. Damian is clapping, along with Jack and Kim. But what surprises me the most is seeing Martin there.

Martin retired shortly after everything happened. I took it hard, and we haven’t really talked much. So it’s shocking to see him here. I walk up and when I wrap my arms around him he jolts.

“Never thought I would ever get one of these from you.” Martin has tears in his eyes, I always knew he was a big softy.

“Thank you for being here. Thank you for being you.”

“I wouldn’t miss it. I’m surprised you’re hugging me. I like it.”

“Yeah, I’m all about the touchy-feely shit now.”

“Can I steal my fiancé away now? We’ve got places to go, things to do.” I elbow him in the ribs because he’s always looking for a way to make me go tomato faced.

But I wouldn’t want it any other way. It has been over a year now since the riot, and there isn’t a day I don’t think about it. Terrible things happened to a lot of people in that place; people lost their lives. The nightmares about that place happen every so often, but when Gage puts a hand on me, I calm instantly. Like I said before, he is my dragon slayer. He came along at just the right time when I needed him the most. Some of the journey I had to go through by myself before I was ready to accept someone else’s help.  One thing that I realize now, though, is that I went out of that place battered and bruised. I was never broken.

                        
The End.

Stay tuned for Kim’s book, Behind The Badge coming Summer 2016!

Will anybody be able to tame the fiery redhead?

Or better yet, will she want anybody to try?

To the person reading this, right now. THANK YOU! From the very tips of my toes to the top of my head is full with gratitude towards YOU!

To my momma, The Warden from Behind the Gate, thank you for telling me your stories and letting me twist them, I love you!

I would thank my kids, but I find it weird because this book has sex in it. But thanks anyways, kids!

To Cori and Dawn- the Queens- thank you ladies for being you for letting me bounce ideas good or bad off of y’all. For selling me Pink Zebra and Perfectly Posh (ha, I shamelessly plugged y’all. Happy now?)

To Dawn, Glenna, and Amanda- I am slowly working y’all into my books, why? Because y’all are mother fucking bosses!