Hitting End, he smiled. “My mother said be careful driving, and hello.”
“When are they going to give you your walking papers?” I asked.
Lucas reached for some papers that were sitting on the bed table. “Already got them. I’m ready to go whenever you are. I dothink they are going to want me to leave in a stupid wheelchair, though.”
“Right,” I said. “I’ll go find a nurse.”
Quickly slipping out of the room, I leaned against the door once it shut and closed my eyes.
“He has that effect on you, doesn’t he?”
My eyes snapped open to see a nurse standing there with a wheelchair.
“What? Who?”
She motioned with her head toward Lucas’s door. “Mr. Dayton. All the nurses are talking about how handsome he is. Something about his eyes. Poor guy—he doesn’t have very good luck, though.”
“Why do you say that?” I asked as I pushed off the door.
“He was taking a shower earlier and slipped. Nearly fell. Luckily, I was there, and he reached for me before he tumbled. I’m not even sure how it happened. He was standing still.”
“Wow, that’s crazy.”
Moving out of her way, I watched as she walked into Lucas’s room. I followed, then came to a stop when I saw him looking in the basket I brought.
“Okay, Mr. Dayton, your chariot awaits.”
Lucas looked at the nurse and gave her a polite smile, but when his eyes met mine, it widened. “What’s this?”
I swallowed the lump in my throat and reached for the basket. Hopefully, he hadn’t seen my written notes.
“Nothing,” I softly said as I stepped out of the way of the nurse.
“Are you his ride?”
I wish.
“Yes,” I said, pushing the instant dirty image out of my mind. “Yes. I’m here to give him a ride. I mean, take him home. In mycar. I’m going to take him for a ride in my car to his house. That’s all. That kind of ride.”
They both looked at me. The nurse with a confused expression, and Lucas with his dimpled smile that made my insides quiver.
First thing I was going to ask Sarah about was whether there was a spell to make people forget things because the way Lucas was smiling at me said he wasn’t going to let that Freudian slip go.
“If you don’t mind heading down and getting your car, you can pull up at the main entrance, and we’ll meet you there.”
I smiled. “Of course. Right away. Here I go.”
She stood there and stared at me like I had two heads.
Deciding it was best to just leave, I rushed out the door and to the elevators. Once I got outside, my phone rang, and I saw it was Kristin.
“Hello.”
“Hey, what are you doing?”
I exhaled. “I’m about to take Lucas home.”
“Wait, what? Oh, my gosh, did the spell work?”