Page 4 of Hello, Nurse! (Ghostlight Falls #10)

Chapter three

Good Idea/Bad Idea

Absurdo

A s the others stand to leave, I quickly grab handfuls of the remaining food, wolfing it down in an instant.

I toss enough money on the table to cover our tab.

The rest of the group is already walking out the door, so after one last mouthful of pub mix, I dash to catch up with them.

Everything is going according to Blabbo’s plan so far, except the second I saw Rebecca in person, my body reacted.

Didn’t expect that to happen. Encephalon and Blabbo had shown us pictures of her, cute enough, but there’s something else about her the camera can’t pick up.

She’s got a different energy from anyone we've come across before. Which, I guess, is sort of the point. We needed someone with both human and demon blood for the ceremony. I still think we should just cut to the chase and tell her everything, but Blabbo insists it’s better this way.

He always likes a complicated plan over a simple one.

I’m more direct. But after everything he’s done for Angelina and me, I’ve got to trust him.

“So a nurse, huh?” I step beside Rebecca. She looks taken aback, but I nod my head to her bag where her badge is clipped, hanging on the outside. Not that I needed that, we already knew.

She smiles, “Yeah.”

I give a drawn-out wolf whistle. “I bet all the kids make up excuses just to come see you.”

“I don’t know about that.” She tucks a strand of golden hair behind her ear. “Why do you have an accent while the others don’t?”

I shrug. “I joined the group a little later.” She glances down at my exposed legs.

“Easier access,” I joke with an exaggerated eyebrow waggle. I don’t mention that we escaped with nothing, grabbing what we could find and are making the best of it. Leaning in, I whisper in her ear, “Care to take a peek?”

“Wait until we’re home,” Blabbo says, opening the passenger seat door for Rebecca. She gets in, and he closes the door behind her, looking up at me pointedly. “Don’t mess this up for us. We need this.”

“I was just flirting.”

“If everything doesn’t happen exactly as it needs to, then it was all for nothing.” Blabbo opens the back door for me, indicating I should take a seat. I do, and he slams the door shut behind me. Angelina gets in on the other side .

Blabbo starts the car, and we begin driving up the hill to the outskirts of town, where our makeshift home is.