Reborn: This Time, I'm Divorcing Him First novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: Bed Nine
"Dr. Lane?" the nurse said. "We can put you by the station if you'd rather. It's warmer."
I looked at the bed.
The thin blue blanket. The rail with the call button clipped to it. The pillow somebody had plumped into a hill.
Nobody in this life had died in it.
"This one," I said.
I sat down on the edge and swung my legs up.
The nurse unwrapped the tape under my collarbone and hooked two clear lines to the ends of my new catheter.
She pressed a button.
The machine started to hum.
My blood ran out of me through one tube, dark red, around the drum of the filter and back into me through the other.
I'd watched that from the foot of a hundred beds.
I'd never watched it from the pillow.
Not in this life.
"Four hours," the nurse said. "Try to sleep."
I didn't sleep.
At seven Maeve came down the row in her coat with a paper bag.
"I swapped my shift," she said. "Somebody owed me a Christmas anyway."
She pulled the plastic chair up to my bed and sat.
Out of the bag came a magazine, a pair of fuzzy socks with pink cats on them, and a ginger ale.
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