Chapter 269

Alisa

I'm having the absolute worst day. Maybe it's residual annoyance because of the phone call with my mom, perhaps it's because I'm ending the second half of a double shift that would have anyone ready to go, or maybe it's because I just don't want to be here. I had such a great time with Archer at the cookout yesterday, anything else seems to be not as exciting or completely underwhelming.

Either way, anything that could've gone wrong has.

I'd like nothing more than to go back to bed and start this day over again.

However, glancing at my watch, I realize I only have four more hours to work.

I can do this. I can do this.

It's a chant inside my brain when the doors to the emergency room open and a woman with a very distended abdomen comes in breathing heavily.

Looking over at Stella, I raise an eyebrow. "Want me to take this one?"

She's been super emotional when pregnant people come in lately. More than likely because of wha