Chad was still riding high on Sonya’s surprise visit and her good news. He’d hoped for a chance to introduce her to Mary Alice. She was supposed to be stopping by to pick up the donations for Fountain of Hope this afternoon, but he hadn’t seen her, and Sonya had to get on down to Jackson for her meeting. But she’d promised to come back through tomorrow and spend a night on her way back to Birmingham. Maybe he could arrange a dinner so Sonya could get a chance to meet the woman he was so crazy about.
During a brief lull late in the afternoon, he headed up to the second-floor nurse’s station to find out if anybody had seen Mary Alice. Maybe she’d come through while he was tied up with that dislocated shoulder. Rosemary Newsome, the charge nurse, was reviewing charts at the desk.
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