The Secret Life of Violet Grant (2014)
“I hadn’t missed much, it seemed.
The feel of the place was familiar enough. God knew I’d spent more time in hospital waiting rooms (well, one in particular) in the past few weeks than in the rest of my twenty-two years combined. I sniffed the Lysol and floor wax, the bouquet garni of overcooked food and effluvia, and I’ll be damned if my shameless glands didn’t start churning out a Welcome Doctor Paul cocktail of desire. All this while I was hurrying down corridors and scrubbed blind alleys... in a frantic hunt for my comatose great-aunt.
“Coma. There’s Mums for you,” said Pepper, when I screeched to a huff-a-puff halt in front of the door marked HADLEY. (Half my trouble at the reception downstairs was remembering which ex-husband had come last.) “She knocked her head on the way down, and she hasn’t come out of it. The doctors are rather bored about it, really.” But Pepper’s face was long and grave. She looked like a different woman without her lipstick.MoreLess
The feel of the place was familiar enough. God knew I’d spent more time in hospital waiting rooms (well, one in particular) in the past few weeks than in the rest of my twenty-two years combined. I sniffed the Lysol and floor wax, the bouquet garni of overcooked food and effluvia, and I’ll be damned if my shameless glands didn’t start churning out a Welcome Doctor Paul cocktail of desire. All this while I was hurrying down corridors and scrubbed blind alleys... in a frantic hunt for my comatose great-aunt.
“Coma. There’s Mums for you,” said Pepper, when I screeched to a huff-a-puff halt in front of the door marked HADLEY. (Half my trouble at the reception downstairs was remembering which ex-husband had come last.) “She knocked her head on the way down, and she hasn’t come out of it. The doctors are rather bored about it, really.” But Pepper’s face was long and grave. She looked like a different woman without her lipstick.MoreLess
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