And then I discovered that I could not make myself get into her car. I do them, at least when I remember to.” I laughed, and my laugh sounded to my own ears like a bark. “I would have taken those off, eventually.”
She snorted. “What happened?”
“Bad day at work,” I muttered. What had happened? Mila leant over me as she began working on my shoulders again, this time from the front, rotating her torso so that her dangling nipples made little circles on my chest. “Now you know why I started wearing this instead of sleeping in the nude.”
“What was the dream about? “We do have lives outside the hospital, you know.”
I introduced Mila. You always have one.”
She snorted. “She does fancy you, then?”
“Shut up.” I couldn’t still make myself really believe that Amanda fancied me, but it gave me a strange feeling that it could even be a possibility anymore. “That party over there, at the table behind you. “I was planning to give you one anyway. Ms L_____…”
“Call me Juliana, please. My Juliana, the breaker of hearts.”
“She must be half our age,” I protested. “I don’t know,” I said. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d laughed.
