“I can’t guarantee that. I’m meeting her for lunch right now.”
“Alright. Bye, Chalk.” Angie winked and walked out.
Mia and Numbers came over to me.
“That go all right?” Mia asked with a concerned look on her face. “I know about what happened the other night. Numbers told me.”
Yeah, now the whole club knew about the incident and that didn’t sit right with me. “It went fine, let’s move on from the subject,” I said in a tired voice. I rolled my neck as I slid my jacket on and we stepped into the daylight. “What do you think about this Mississippi River case? Do you think you have the capability to get it re-opened?”
Mia sighed as she reached her car and Numbers slid in the passenger seat. “Umm, Angie is going to be the key to that. She’s planning on taking a deeper look into the sibling of the deceased. We might be able to find out something that way. Until then, who knows, unless someone steps forward with new information?”
My lips formed a thin line as I nodded. “Okay, I guess time will tell.”
She opened the car door and waved. “Yep, it will. Here’s hoping. See you soon.”
“Bye.” I waved and put my helmet on then swung my leg over my bike.
One of the shop owners from down the street approached. “Ah, Chalk! I saw the paper, you guys are legends around here. That was a great read. So much history.” He shook my hand with a smile. “I’m going to come in for a drink sometime soon with my wife. Sounds like a good place.”
I grinned. Maybe we weren’t going backwards at all as a club. “Thank you, that’s very kind of you. We do go way back in this town.”
He nodded and gave me a smile as he headed back down the sidewalk.
I made my way over to the Holbeck hospital to surprise Lucy.
I entered the sterile building and immediately wanted to walk out like the last time I’d been here. I hated hospitals because they reminded me of sickness. As I walked through the tiled hall the nurses looked, the doctors looked. A biker all dressed in black with a leather patched jacket would have been a sight for them all. I smirked, walking with confidence to the nurse’s station. Their whispers were so loud it was hard for me not to laugh when I got there. “Hi ladies. Having a nice day?”
One of them coughed as she held the base of her throat. She looked to be in her mid to late sixties. “We are now,” she said sweetly as she looked over the top of her glasses at me.
One of the other nurses elbowed her sharply.
The corners of my mouth lifted even further as I chuckled and put my elbow on the desk. “Do you know if Lucinda Matthews will be back on break soon for lunch?”
The elbower quickly gave me the answer, “She’s going to be on break in about five minutes. She’ll come right past this desk. You must be Chalk. She talks about you.” The nurse had a warm smile and she looked to be a little younger than the other one, around her late twenties.
“Oh?” Cocking my eyebrow, I lifted my arm off the counter standing up straight. “Okay great. I’ll wait right over here.”
“That’s no problem,” she said as the other one resumed ogling me.
Lucy came strolling through with her stethoscope around her neck, her dark hair piled high on her head and her cheeks slightly flushed pink.
My body flooded with warmth as soon as I saw her. All I wanted to do was wrap her up in my arms and hold her tight. The nurses would have a field day if that happened, so I kept my self-restraint intact. “Hi,” I said to her awkwardly.
Her face glowed with a smile. “Chalk! What are you doing here? Are you working again?”
I saw that the nurses were lurking in the background, but they faded fast as I spoke to her, “No, I came to take you out to lunch. Is that okay? You got plans?”
She looked flustered for a moment. “No, I don’t have plans, we can go out. I was only going to the cafeteria for a sandwich anyway.”
“Take an extra half hour,” one of the ladies called out to her.
I waved to them and we walked out together. “Hope you don’t mind. I wanted to see you…spend some time together.”
“Thanks, nice to see you.”
We were dancing around one another, but I figured once we got out in the open that would change. When I saw Lucy, my heart wanted to burst out of its skin. I wanted to be with her badly. The words were locked inside of me and I had to find a way to bring them to light.
“Are we going somewhere or are we walking somewhere?” she asked.