Nia padded barefoot over to the door and opened it. “Dr. Kirby isn’t taking any questions from the press today except to say NO COMMENT!”
“Oh. I’m not with the media. My name is Cassandra Meadows. I’m a nurse at St. Lucia’s, and I have some information that I think might be helpful to her case.”
More than a little interested, Nia stepped aside and allowed Cassie to come in. Sky was standing just a few feet away with her hands folded across her chest. “Cassandra? What are you doing here?”
“I wanted to give you this.” It was a thick manila envelope.
“What’s in it?”
“My notes from Charlie Kneeland’s surgery along with everything you sent me.”
Sky stared at the folder with new eyes as if it were the Holy Grail. “You’re kidding?”
“No. I am not. I would have been here sooner, but I recently moved and had to find it in all of my boxes. I couldn’t print off the copy you sent me at work because the hospital wiped any digital files associated with you.”
Nia frowned. “Thanks for that bit of information. That’s ILLEGAL. I guess I’ll add destroying evidence to my long list of grievances. My forensic IT specialist would eventually find them, but that’s if we have to go to court, and that could take forever, our arbitration meeting with the hospital is tomorrow.”
Cassie smiled. “Too bad for them that I had already printed it, made a copy to review, and taken it home.”
Nia asked. “What exactly is in the folder?”
Sky was breathless. “Everything. It’s the original report that I sent to Cassie. It should have a date and time stamp on the print-outs.” Sky emptied the contents of the envelope. “The procedure was a complex one. And since St. Lucia’s is a teaching hospital, there should have been—” Her voice trailed off.
Cassie finished the sentence for her. “Video.”
A flash drive slid out of the envelope. Sky closed her eyes and pressed the little piece of metal to her chest.
“That’s not all, Dr. Kirby. I also wrote down notes from the discussion you and Dr. Bridges had. I figured if I were ever in the same situation, I would know how to proceed. You very clearly felt that the bruises on her posterior dorsal, the thorax, and the upper right quadrant of her abdomen were not the product of the fall. I heard you clearly state, the bruises looked several days old and that you thought someone might have ‘beat the hell out of her.’ Dr. Bridges disagreed. He said they didn’t have facts to support your claim and that if you wrote it down in your report, he wasn’t going to back you up.”
“You heard him say that?” Nia asked.
“Yes, I did, and it’s on the video.” Cassie nodded.
“Would you be willing to make an official statement, maybe even testify if necessary?”
She nodded again. “I also know who leaked this nonsense to the press.”
“Who?” Nia and Sky said it at the same time.
“Jazlyn.”
“Why would she do that?”
“Well, she kinda has a thing for Dr. Bridges.”
Sky couldn’t believe it. Then again, she could. Jazlyn was a loose end she should have tied up. “We’re not together anymore.”
“Regardless, he’s still pre-occupied with you. Chief-of-Staff, Shaw and Dr. Bridges think the same thing. I overheard a conversation they had said as much. Anyway, I’ve got to get back to the hospital. I just hope these documents are helpful.”
“You’ve been more than helpful. If what Sky has in her hands proves to be what you say it is, I’ll bury those assholes in court and sue Bella Langston for defamation.” Nia was ready for war, and now she was armed for it.
“I’m all for burying Shane and Noah but not Bella. I don’t want to hurt Charlie any more than this fiasco already has. Not publically anyway. That’s what I was trying to tell you earlier. However, Bella doesn’t have to know that. Scare the shit out of her. Threaten that if she doesn’t make a public apology and retract her statements about me that I will sue her for defamation and every dime she has.”
Chapter 25
Bella had been flirting with Remington ever since they moved Charlie to the new facility.
He could barely stand to be in the same room with her and based on Charlie’s interactions with her, he didn’t think she could either. Remington was no longer sure that Bella being MIA was such a bad thing.
His mood didn’t have a chance to improve since he couldn’t keep his mind off of Sky. However, today Remington was going to be happy even if it killed him. Charlie was going home. She was being discharged. It had been a long road, and she still had a mountain to climb, but she was moving in the right direction. If nothing else, Remington had to be thankful to Sky for that.
The room was quiet as the three of them waited for the medical transport team to arrive when Kane burst into Charlie’s room. “You lying bitch!”
Shocked. Bella’s eyes went wide. “What are you doing here!?”
“I knew this would be the best place to find you since you’ve been hiding behind
