Wild River (Magnolia Falls #2) by Laura Pavlov EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Laura Pavlov
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River
I PARKED in front of the hospital and stepped out of my car. I wasn’t
sure what the hell the old man was thinking, getting himself stuck in here
for God knows how long. Booze and pills and his high-strung personality
would have done the average thirty-year-old in, let alone a fifty-year-old
not-so-fit dude. I’m sure his daughter was horrified by the whole thing,
seeing as this all stemmed from her father’s ridiculous sex drive.
I hated hospitals, but he was my friend, and this was where I needed to
be. Well, if I was being honest, Lionel Rose was more than a friend. He
owned Whiskey Falls bar, and we’d grown close over the years. I
considered him family at this point.
He’d suffered a stroke recently, and we’d all been devastated by the
news.
I took the elevator up and didn’t miss the way the two nurses who
stepped onto the elevator were checking me out as I stepped off.
The doors closed, and I made my way down the corridor and into his
room.
My friend held his hand up as I approached his bed, and his lips turned
up the slightest bit as I gave him one of those half-bro-kind of hugs, before
taking the seat beside him.
The monitors beeped excessively, and irritation rose as I tried to ignore
the sound.
The faint smell of cafeteria food mixed with the strong antiseptic scent
made my stomach turn.
Hospitals were probably my least favorite place to be, which was saying
a lot because I’d spent time in plenty of other hellholes in my life.
Apparently, I’d lived at a hospital for six months as a kid, not that I
remembered much during that time. But for whatever reason, I associated
hospitals with darkness.
Hell, maybe everyone did.
Or maybe it was my subconscious remembering those months, and the
fact that I had parents the day that I’d arrived at that hospital, and I didn’t
the day I’d left.
Doreen was there too, giving me an update on his condition while
Lionel was trying to choke down his lunch. She was a bartender at Whiskey
Falls and Lionel’s oldest friend.
“Stop being stubborn and eat this applesauce,” Doreen said. “Ruby is
going to be pissed when she gets back if you haven’t finished it.”
Ruby was Lionel’s only child.
His pride and joy.
Though she’d always been a little rough around the edges, I hadn’t seen
her in years. I knew that Lionel was supposed to be attending her latest
graduation, as she was somewhat of a professional student at this point.
Lionel bragged about her often, and I knew she was getting her doctorate in
psychology. But obviously, she’d come straight home yesterday when she’d
heard about her father.
“Tell River the story that we told Ruby last night so we can all keep
things straight.” Lionel’s words slurred, and I tried not to let my face show
my concern. The right side of his face was paralyzed, and it made it difficult
for him to speak. But all in all, the doctor had said that Lionel had gotten to
the hospital just in time, and he was expected to make a full recovery, but it
would take some time.
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