“Good news, Nick. The Masons are dropping you from their lawsuit. They have asked as a condition of it that you don’t go around saying the grandson dilly dallied and didn’t get Ms. Mason to the hospital in time.”
Relief washed through me. I didn’t realize just how heavy the weight of the lawsuit was until it was removed. “I have no desire to add to their grief. What about the hospital?”
“I don’t know what they’ll do. I did try to call the lawyer there, but they said she doesn’t work there anymore.”
“No, she doesn’t.”
“Does that mean she’s with you?”
Mia came out on the deck with a cup of coffee.
“Yes. She is.”
“So, there is such a thing as fairy tales?”
I smiled and reached over to take Mia’s hand. “Yes, there is.”
After the call, I gave Mia the news and she celebrated by giving me a mind-blowing orgasm. As I recovered, she said, “At some point, we needed to think about jobs.”
“Too bad we couldn’t get paid to have sex. We’re good at it.” I pulled her into my lap getting ready to repay her generosity by giving her an orgasm.
“We could actually. I think it’s called porn.”
I laughed. “Hopefully it won’t come to that.”
As if the universe was listening in, Mia’s phone rang. She looked at it. “It’s the hospital.”
“I guess your pleasure will have to wait.”
“Let me see what they want.” She answered the phone. As she spoke, I kissed her neck, and slid my hand between her thighs. She wriggled, trying to get me to stop, which only made me hard. “I’ll need to think about it,” she said.
I stopped my seduction, deciding to wait until she was done.
She finally hung up, set her phone down, and wrapped her arm around me. “Now, where were you?”
“What was that about?”
“They want me to come back.” She took my hand and brought back to her pussy. Taking the cue, I fingered her, enjoying watching her as pleasure washed through her body. As she came down from her high, she rested her head on my shoulder. “You sure you don’t want to try porn?”
I laughed. “I don’t think I could handle strange men watching you in the throes of passion, even if I was the one causing it.” I kissed her shoulder. “You don’t want to go back?”
She sat up, turning to look at me. “Actually, I do. I liked my job. Not the lawsuit, but the other parts I enjoyed. I like the people I worked with except Dick, but he’s gone.”
“What? When?”
“They fired him. I think my resignation letter had something to do with it.”
“What did you do?” I studied Mia, seeing a stronger, fiercer woman than I’d known.
“I just gave my opinion that he didn’t support his staff, to the point that he’d sacrifice them and how he was ignoring important factors that could have contributed to Ms. Mason’s death that would lead to even more problems than the protesters if it came out.”
“What was he ignoring.”
She looked at me and I realized that she was trying to decide if legally she could tell me. I guess she decided she could or didn’t care. “The chest x-ray was sent to the wrong place.”
My breath caught in my chest. “I know I—”
She pressed her palms to my cheeks. “You did. It was an EMR glitch. New protocols were put in place to avoid that in the future.”