My Best Friend Used Me, Now She Pays novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Waiting Room
I did not take her hand.
Kyla's fingers hung over the rail, open, and I looked at them for as long as it takes to breathe in and out.
Then the stretcher turned into the tunnel, and her hand dropped, and she was gone.
"Hospital," Donal said.
"Not for her."
"For him." His voice was very quiet. "He'll go there. He'll stand in a room and make it sound like her fault."
I reached into my bag and felt the folded page of the warning, still warm from the printer at my father's kitchen table.
"Then I'm coming," I said.
My father took one look at the two of us and put the cooler in Bea's arms.
"Go," he said. "I'll drive her home."
The hospital waiting room was a long beige room with a television bolted to the wall and a vending machine humming in the corner.
At eleven o'clock it held eight strangers and the Drapers.
Kyla's mother sat alone in a plastic chair, very upright, with her hands folded around her purse.
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