Free A Second Chance at love The Rocker Girls Series by Jennifer Byars Page A

her
guitar and jacket in the back seat. “So are we headed
home?”
    “ Yeah, if you don’t mind. I
have to be at work tomorrow afternoon, and I’m having a pretty good
buzz I’ll need to sleep off. I don’t need to make a bad impression
when I walk into the hospital,” she said, rubbing her
head.
    South drove to the apartments. ”So are
you a nurse like the others?”
    She looked over at him. “I didn’t know
anyone told you where the others all worked.”
    He laughed. “Well truthfully, Win found
out about you all. We were curious after Lynn lost her
shit.”
    Her brows pulled together after that.
“If he found out what we do, then why would you think I’m a nurse?”
Then she remembered, her last name was different at work, it was
her married name and not the name she’d told South. Then she
sighed. “No, I’m not a nurse. I’m a first-year intern, and I was
lucky enough to cut a break here in Cleveland so I can sing with
the girls.”
    “ You’re an intern? So
you’re like…a doctor?”
    “ Well, yes, but I still
have lots of work to do. Tomorrow there’s a possibility of me
working a twenty-hour shift. It’s brutal, let me tell you,” she
explained, feeling pretty tired.
    “ And that’s why you’re
never around. And you don’t come with the girls to see our band
because…”
    “ Most of the time I’m
working, but really sometimes I just get home and pass out on the
couch, too damn tired to make it to my bed.”
    “ This is starting to make
sense now,” he said quietly, and she sleepily smiled. “So how many
hours do you work a week?”
    “ That depends on the week.
Last week I worked eighty. After I sang at the club. I could barely
stand, so I caught a cab and went back to the apartment and passed
out cold for a good ten hours.”
    “ So you weren’t trying to
avoid me? I mean I thought maybe, well, you know, trying to give me
the brush-off.”
    She laughed quietly. “I’m not avoiding
anybody. I just don’t have time in my life for a shower, let alone
a relationship.”
    “ Good to know. So there’s
still a chance for me?”
    “ Sure, why not,” she
mumbled, half asleep.
    “ What are you hoping to
practice?” He sounded really interested.
    She chuckled as her eyes closed. “Well,
I’d like general surgery, but it’s a lot of work and commitment. I
will have to intern for five to seven years and then get board
certified…and a whole bunch of other stuff.”
    “ I’ve got to say, I’m
impressed.”
    “ Good to know I can impress
you,” she said before she fell asleep.
     
    ***
     
    South pulled up and saw Win’s truck in
his parking spot. Shit, he wanted to take her to his apartment
since none of the others were home, but he didn’t want Win to pull
a mental on him if he walked in with her.
    He got out his phone and texted
him.
    “ Are you cool man?” He waited, but he didn’t answer. “Look I’ve got Addison passed out in my car, and
none of the girls are home. Are you going to lose your shit if I
bring her up?”
    “ No”
    “ No don’t bring her up? Or
No you’re cool?”
    “ Cool…”
    South opened the passenger side door
and picked her up. Shit, she weighed hardly anything. He was going
to make sure she started to eat more when she was at
work.
    When he made it upstairs Win opened the
door for him. South was going to put her on his bed when Win
stopped him. “Put her on the couch, man,” he told him. South was
going to argue but Win cut in. “If I see her on your bed I’ll lose
it.”
    He placed her on their couch and Win
came up to take off her boots, while South got her a blanket. Win
took the glasses off her head, and then sat in the chair in front
of her. “I’m in big fucking trouble,” he told his friend, rubbing
his hands over his face.
    South grabbed a beer from the fridge
and stepped out next to Win, watching her sleep. “Yeah? Well, that
makes two of us,” South growled, and took a swig of his beer before
he glanced over at Win.