Free Thicker than Blood - Book One by Olivia Leighton

 
    Thicker than Blood – Book
One
    by Olivia
Leighton
     
     
    Copyright Olivia Leighton
2013
    Published at
Smashwords
     
     
    I punched the elevator's
ground level button and leaned up against the thinly covered metal
wall. My hand gently massaged my temples – it had been a long
night. I was an RN and worked the weekend night-shift in the
telemetry unit of Ashland Medical Center in beautiful Ashland
Oregon. It had not been a terrible night, but it was thinking about
the next two nights that wore me out. The first night was always
the worst.
     
    As the doors slowly closed,
a hand shot through the crack, halting their progress. The doors
opened back up and in stepped my friend, Matt Holcomb. He was an
agency nurse that worked in ICU.
     
    “Hey.” My lips involuntarily
curled up at their corners. Seeing him was like putting on a pair
of old, comfy socks.
     
    “Glad I caught ya,” he said
with a smile as he towered over me. It had taken me a while to get
used to his stature. I wasn't short by any means, at a respectable
five-eight. Matt was just that much more imposing. Standing at
six-foot-six, he was what I pictured a Swedish Viking to be: blond,
muscular and good-looking.
     
    I met Matt a couple years
ago, when he started working agency shifts on my unit to make up
for the hospital being short-staffed. We hit it off right away, but
we never became anything more than friends and bed-buddies. Being a
larger girl, at a size sixteen, I was more than happy for the
friendship and sex. I'd always been a bit reserved and
self-conscious about my size, but over the years, Matt helped me
overcome that. I owed him a lot for making me realize how beautiful
and sexy I was as a thick, curvy woman.
     
    “Thank God that's over,”
Matt said as he yawned. “Unless they ask me to come in
tonight.”
     
    “Wow, you'll be rolling in
it this week if they do. Haven't you already worked like five
shifts already?”
     
    He nodded. “Just more money
in savings for CRNA school. I'd rather not take out a jumbo student
loan for that.”
     
    “Yeah, that would be a huge
loan, seeing they don't allow you to work while in school.” I'd
give him one thing, he was a determined and motivated person. I
didn't know too many twenty-five year olds that had so much drive.
I had full confidence that he would become a CRNA soon... and he'd
be set for life.
     
    “OH!” I said, turning to
face him completely. “What's this I hear about Amber putting the
moves on you?” I grinned at the big man.
     
    Matt rolled his eyes. “She's
been following me around like a little puppy... well, more like a
horny puppy.”
     
    “What, you're not into that?
She has some giant boobies...,” I teased.
     
    Dismissing my statement with
a wave of his hand, he said, “Yeah, giant, fake boobies. Besides, she's too
skinny anyway. You know I prefer women with more curves...
something more to hang on to.”
     
    I laughed. “I'm sure I
have NO idea what
you mean.”
     
    “Whatever.” He laughed. “So,
speaking of which, how are you holding up?” Matt asked, resting up
against the back wall, arms crossed over his broad
chest.
     
    I looked at him and I
suppressed a laugh. He was grinning mischievously. He didn't have
to say anything more for me to know what he was really asking. “I'm not tired if
you're not.”
     
    Matt's big hand gently
gripped my shoulder and squeezed. “You always know what I'm
thinking,” he said and chuckled.
     
    I looked at him and rolled
my eyes. “Pft. That's all you're ever thinking.”
     
    “Right.” He laughed louder.
“And you don't?”
     
    “Well...” I shrugged. Truth
be known, sex was on my mind quite often—that's just how I was
wired. So sue me.
     
    “Yeah, that's what I
thought.”
     
    The elevator finally made it
to the ground level. I swear, no other elevator could possibly be
any slower than that one. You'd think that a hospital elevator
had no need to be
fast.
     
    Matt let me exit before him.
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