Free Fall into Forever (Fall into Him Book Three) by Evelyn Harper Page A

Jennifer started to protest. “I've already screwed up the
beginning of our morning and we have so much work to do...”
     
    “Listen to me,” Philip's voice was firm but held a tenderness that
Jennifer hadn't heard before. “You did nothing wrong. This was not your fault.”
He apparently could see that she was still skeptical because he bent his head
and brushed his lips against hers. “Have I ever lied to you?”
     
    She shook her head. Even when he'd hidden things from her, he'd never
lied to her about them.
     
    “Do you trust me?”
     
    She nodded.
     
    “Then believe me when I say that nothing that happened here was your
fault.” While cradling Jennifer's injured hand in his, Philip led her back to
his car, stepping around Brad without a second look. “And no arguing about the
doctor. I'm not risking you having serious damage to your wrist. There are too
many fragile bones there that could have been broken.” He gave her wink. “Gotta
make sure you can still type all of my reports, otherwise I'll have to do it
myself.”
     
    Jennifer smiled as she slid into the passenger's seat. The dark cloud
that had threatened to ruin the day was beginning to pass. Now, if she could
only get her hands to stop shaking, she really would be fine. Neither one said
much of anything until Philip pulled into the parking lot of a very
expensive-looking office that Jennifer didn't recognize.
     
    “Where are we?”
     
    “Doctor Kevin Dawson,” Philip got out of the car and jogged to the
other side to open Jennifer's door. “The best general practitioner in the
state. Maybe the country.”
     
    “Just take me to the ER, Philip. I can't afford this place.”
     
    “You didn't thoroughly read your contract did you?” Philip took
Jennifer's uninjured hand and began to walk towards the doors. “There is a
clause in the contract of every one of my employees. The company has an
emergency fund specifically designed to cover any and all circumstances deemed
necessary by the CEO.” He glanced down at Jennifer as he opened the door for
her. “And before you argue about me using it for you, know that this isn't the
first time I've dipped into it. Since it's been opened, I've paid legal fees
where an employee was fighting his abusive ex for custody of their three
children, two medical procedures not covered by the insurance company unless as
a last resort, adoption fees for two families, and six months' rent for a
family that lost their home in a fire.”
     
    “Wow,” Jennifer was impressed.
     
    “Does that mean you're going to let Dr. Dawson take a look at your wrist
and not fight me on this?”
     
    “Yes,” Jennifer agreed nodding her head.
     
    The doctor turned out to be a middle-aged man with a brisk but polite
bedside manner and it was obvious from the way Philip spoke to him that he
admired the doctor. Despite not having an appointment and it not being a
life-threatening emergency, he saw Jennifer shortly after she arrived and had a
diagnosis less than an hour later. She didn't think she'd ever gone through a
medical examination so quickly. To Jennifer's relief, the injury was mild. The
wrist was a sprain that would heal with time and rest, and her shoulder would
just be sore for a few days. The doctor wrapped her wrist, gave her a
prescription for pain meds if she needed them and told her to keep her usage of
that arm to a minimum.
     
    “At least I still have my right hand for note taking,” Jennifer quipped
as she climbed back into the car. “I can do all of the notes by hand today so
we can see the results...”
     
    “We're not going back to the office,” Philip pulled the car out into
traffic.
     
    “Wait, why?” Jennifer was startled by the statement. “Are the files
somewhere else?”
     
    “No,” Philip shook his head. “The files are at the office by now, but I
called Emma while you were in with Dr. Dawson and told her that you'd been hurt
and both of us would be taking the day