Chapter 13

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Chad Fields wanted her. Doug had watched that bastard and little Genny while Fields’s sister had been on the third floor. It was obvious to him that Fields wanted Genny next, for his perverted pleasures. Then the bastard would just dump her like he had all the other women who thought Chad Fields was the key to a perfect life. Just like Randall Brown had after he’d used her that way.

Seduced her and hurt her.

It wasn’t going to happen again.

Chad Fields wanted Genny. He was the kind of arrogant bastard who would destroy a woman like her. Dim the light that shined whenever she cared for someone. She was one of the best nurses Doug had ever seen.

He had realized that for the first time six months ago. And he had watched her. He had always loved the nurses, and he had watched them. And he had seen her .

He loved watching her. He just wished she would see how much he adored her. How much he loved her.

He could be her key to a perfect life. He already had a home in Barrattville. It was respectable, a great size. He made a very nice income each year. He was a damned fine physician, too. Much better than Chad Fields, who spent all his time wiping runny noses and writing scripts for earaches.

It was because she’d grown up next door to Fields’s sister. That’s what it was. Fields thought she was his, because she was there for the taking.

Fields wasn’t going to take Doug’s angel. He wasn’t.

Doug followed her most of the day, when he wasn’t dealing with patients of his own. It wasn’t hard to do.

Doug made certain to be in the cafeteria whenever she was there. It wasn’t always easy, but he managed. All it had taken was a hundred dollars a month slipped to the kid who changed the trash cans and swept the floors and refilled the ketchup packets to make it happen.

Doug… lived for the day she saw him for who he truly was. He just lived for her. That was all.

He just didn’t know how to show her that. But he would. Someday. It was just a matter of time.