The Letter
By Tori Del Rey
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The Letter - New Adult Romance
Was working at a hospice the right job for a kind, caring person like Kiah? Especially when she struggles with her emotional attachment to these terminally ill patients, daily. For her it’s as if she is losing a loved one over and over again. Equally a hospice is hardly the best place to find love. Oddly enough, somehow Kiah manages to do both, when she’s forced to make a promise she had no way of keeping.
Gabe Cormack, a successful busy man can turn his hand to most things. However there is nothing he can do when his wife is diagnosed with a terminal illness. But watch and wait. His lovely wife refuses to let him care for her and checks herself into a hospice. Gabe is by her side every spare minute of the day and well into the night. Nevertheless, his heart is broken when he isn’t there for his wife’s passing and blames everyone concerned with her care. Especially her assigned nurse Kiah.
Can Kiah persuade Gabe to let her help him through his pain of loss, and at the same time keep her promise to his beautiful wife--without leaving herself vulnerable in the process?
Tori Del Rey
Tori is fun loving and see the world through the eyes of her charecters. She's cutting her teeth so to speak, on the butts of the menage cast of players, running around nude in her head. Waiting for her to dress them, package them and expose them fully clothed of course, well at least most of the time to the world.
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He narrowed his eyes, bent his head and pushed his face closer to hers.
You’re...her... the nurse.
He slurred, froth gathered at the side of his mouth. He wiped his lips with the side of his hand and breathed his alcohol stench breath into her face.
Yes,
she said
His eyes widened. You killed her.
He pointed an accusatory finger at her, You...You’re the one. You killed her...my Ape...April...it was you.
He chanted. Then his eyes rolled back in his head, and he toppled forward unable to hold himself upright anymore.
Kiah caught him in her arms and fell back against her car. Squashed beneath him, a fresh wave of guilt washed through her. So she thought she was healed, huh, Gabe’s words, peeled back the scab and exposed the raw flash she’d tried to conceal with duct tape. Holding Gabe in her arms, she was transported to the moment when April begged for release.
Chapter One
April’s eyelids flickered, then opened. Did you call Gabe?
she asked, her voice weak and raspy.
No.
Kiah rose from her chair and came closer to the bed. Experience told her it wouldn’t be long now. She fought the tears bubbling inside her. These emotions weren’t professional. She couldn’t let April see her choked up.
Maybe her supervisor was right, and this wasn’t the job for her. Every now and then, she got too emotionally attached to a patient who touched something buried inside her. Her heart broke a little when their time came.
Pale, thin fingers reached for Kiah. She took the other woman’s cold, clammy digits in hers, and gently caressed the back of April’s hand. She attempted to try and rub some warmth back into them, even though she knew it would do no good.
I need you to do something for me.
Whatever you need.
Look out for Gabe. He deserves to be happy.
I’ll try.
Please Kiah, do more than try. I’m dying, and I can't leave unless I know Gabe will be taken care of.
What can I do? I’m a nurse. The most I can offer...are a few words of comfort and direct him to our grief counselors.
You can do more Kiah, you’re sassy and fun. Gabe needs someone like that in his life. I fear for him.
April’s voice grew weaker.
Kiah stared at the woman who had come to mean so much to her over the last few months.
Was she telling her to seduce her husband? He was hot, but this was hardly the time or place for a hookup. She needed clarification, to make sure she understood what April asked.
When you say more—what exactly are you asking me to do?
Beads of sweat formed on Kiah’s forehead, her blood coursed through her veins, drumming in her ears. This was madness, why was she even considering what April asked?
You know what I mean. He’s no good alone.
April hiccuped, tears ran down her cheek. Her hands trembled in Kiah’s. I sent him home, so I could have this talk with you. I can’t—
Kiah saw how hard this was for her. April struggled to swallow and get her words out. Kiah squeezed her hand.
Rest now, we can talk some more in the morning.
There is no morning for me, and I can’t let go until I know Gabe’s going to be all right. So promise me you’ll take care of him.
I’m sorry, I can’t do what you’re asking.
You’re his only hope, he won’t last on his own, and I won’t let go of life until I’m sure he’ll be happy.
April began to thrust around on the bed. Her thin lips looked blue against her pallid skin. The other woman’s distress weighed heavy on Kiah. She had to calm her down.
Okay, okay, please stop.
Kiah’s voice broke, the tears she tried to hide, were set free and surged over the rim like a waterfall. Once she let go there was no stopping.
Thank you, that means everything to me. Tell Gabe this is on me, and I love him.
April closed her eyes. Kiah knew she’d never see those warm, caring blue eyes again.
Her chest was tight, and her stomach crashed in on itself. This was hard, the hardest patient she ever had to watch go. No, April had been more than that. She was a friend. How was she going to tell Gabe?
Furthermore, how was she going to accomplish what she promised? There was no way Gabe would see her like that. April was a pageant beauty. A woman with poise and grace, slim, with strawberry blonde hair. Her blue eyes melted the heart and soul with a single glance. In contrast, she was a stocky black woman, with her jaundiced caramel skin and her father’s dull murky green eyes. What she wouldn’t give to be the sweet chocolate brown of her mother.
Her starched nurse's uniform hardly screamed, ‘hot hoochie mama, coming through.’ Not to mention how inappropriate the idea of