John arrived a few hours later as dusk was settling and glowing through the hospital windows. Kelly was in the process of filling out her discharge papers. She had dressed and was sitting up on her bed as Cassie gently tried to run a brush through the impossibly thick, long, and currently snarled hair that had made Kelly a fortune. Kelly was grumpy as hell, her face was achy, and with each tug of the brush, she grimaced and moaned at Cassie. Cassie patiently listened, trying to resist the urge to give Kelly’s hair a satisfying yank with the brush.
Cassie looked up when she heard a noise to find John in the doorway, his arms crossed over his chest. He’d changed into faded blue jeans and a hooded sweatshirt. He looked so sexy and insolent that Cassie’s mouth went dry with nerves. He was gla
