Chapter Five
Angel
The waiting room at the VA hospital was a drab gray color, the walls made from concrete blocks. I rubbed my pant’s legs down with my hands, hating how nervous I was. It wasn’t likely that I’d get bad news, but even the thought of undergoing radiation or chemo terrified me. You know what else frightened me? My next-door neighbor.
Landon was the only man I could recall who had ever rebuffed my advances. And it wasn’t cooling me down. It was making me sizzle, and I hated feeling so out of control. Hell, I’d even persuaded him to tutor me, and the thing was, I wasn't stupid. I didn’t need a tutor, but I wanted to be around Landon, and if this was the only reasonable excuse I could find to hang out with him, then so be it.
“Mr. Perez.” A tall woman with long highlighted h
