Free The Sexy Boss - Sedition: Book One by Z. L. Arkadie, T. R. Bertrand Page A

hospital so that we could work on the payout checklist for the year. It’s a tedious task, but we have to pay people who invested in our REITs.
    On the ride over, I read aloud each name and gave him the amount. Nolan then told me which numbers to recheck. He looked to be in anguish from the time we left the office until we arrived at the hospital, where he did something totally unexpected. Nolan held my hand from the parking lot until we reached the information station. It was so surreal. I have no idea what he meant by it, and at the moment, he’s too distraught to ask.
    Now we’re in the hospital hallway, and Nolan’s ex-wife and I are glaring at each other. I really don’t want to dislike her, but she’s making it extremely hard for me to feel any other way about her. Nolan doesn’t appear to have much patience for her jealous inquiry.
    We’re right outside Nolan’s father’s room in the intensive care unit. Nolan is distracted by John, who is standing at the nurses’ station, speaking to one of the nurses.
    Nolan puts a hand on the small of my back, and I feel his warm breath on my ear. “Stay here.”
    He storms over to the nurses’ station, his eyes still fixed on John. I’ve often seen Nolan agitated but never this infuriated. The situation must call for some mediating because Kelsey tears her eyes away from mine and trots off behind him.
    “How did this happen?” Nolan asks the nurse.
    “I’m sorry, but who are you?” the nurse asks.
    “I’m his son.”
    “So am I,” John says.
    Out of nowhere, Nolan grabs the collar of John’s jacket. Kelsey gets in the middle of them and drives Nolan back away from John.
    “Did you have something to do with this?” Nolan says as he lets go of John.
    “You’re crazy,” John yells, straightening his jacket.
    “You both need to get yourselves together,” Kelsey says.
    Nolan’s breathing like an angry bull. “What are you doing here anyway?” he asks Kelsey.
    “I’m here for Bill,” she says.
    Nolan shakes his head. “He was perfectly fine when I spoke to him this morning.”
    “You know how suddenly these things can happen,” John says.
    Nolan mutters something indecipherable. A nurse goes into Bill’s room, and Nolan rushes in behind her. John follows them, and Kelsey scowls at me before she enters. I heard that look she gave me loud and clear. It said, “Back off, bitch.”
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    I stand in the hallway for at least five minutes. Finally a nurse asks me if I want to sit in a nearby waiting room. Before I answer, I listen to the voices coming out of Nolan’s father’s hospital room. Nolan’s expressing how he doesn’t understand how a perfectly healthy man could have a heart attack then fall into a coma in the hospital. The nurse tells him that that doctor will stop by soon and he’ll be the appropriate person to answer any questions Nolan may have. I feel as if I’m intruding on their private family affairs.
    I smile at the nurse. “Yes, I’ll go to the waiting room.”
    She smiles sympathetically. “I’ll show you.”
    I follow the tiny woman out of the intensive care ward.
    “Your husband is really angry,” she says.
    It takes me a moment to realize that she’s referring to Nolan. I feel obligated to tell her the truth. “Oh no, he’s my boss.”
    “He’s handsome.” She opens the door to the waiting room.
    I measure with two fingers as I walk past her. “A little.”
    We share a chuckle.
    “I’ll let your sexy boss know where to find you.”
    “Thanks.”
    She closes the door. I sit down and take a health magazine off the table to read. I’m halfway through an article on diabetes when the door opens. I look away from the page at Nolan’s miserable face.
    I slowly stand. “How are you?”
    He lifts his eyebrows as if that should answer my question. “Look, I’m not going to leave this place until my father is released. I called you a cab.”
    “Right, I understand.”
    Nolan walks over to stand in front of me. His