Tall and willowy, Senior Scenes of Crime
Officer Aoife Shannon, was a
fiery thirty-two-year-old red head and was admitted to St Augusta’s Hospital in
Nettlefield overnight for observation following a hit and run incident where
she was run off the road.
She suffered a mild concussion, a broken wrist, bruised ribs
and a number of cuts and contusions, but she was still in hospital 10 days
later because of an infection.
Lying in bed for so
long with nothing to do did not suit her at all and she had far too much time
to think, although she had plenty of visitors as she had no shortage of
friends, but when she watched the other patients at visiting time they all had
significant others.
She had been married for nearly 10 years when her
husband betrayed her, she hadn’t been able to trust a man after that, she had
been content with that, but lying in bed feeling sorry for herself, she had
regrets.
It was Sunday
afternoon when Oliver Rudd stepped into
the lift at St
Augusta’s Hospital, he was an unambitious
vet who had found his niche as a country vet. he was a tall muscular
thirty-four-year-old with auburn hair and intense eyes.
Oli was a single man despite his good looks and
the effect he had on women, he desperately wanted a wife and family, but he had
not met the person with which to full fill his wish.
The doors were just about to close when he heard
a voice call
“Hold the lift please”
Oli reached out and hit the button to open the
door
“Thank you” she said
“You’re very welcome”
The grateful woman was one of Aoife’s regular
visitors, Detective Constable Krisztina Verebes who was a junior detective in DI Cutler’s squad in
Nettlefield.
She was twenty-eight years old and she had only
been on his team for six months and had already broken every heart in the
building, male and female.
A stunningly attractive slim brunette it amazed
almost everyone how she was still single, but she was a single woman, which
everyone put down to her ambition to succeed when in fact she was just fussy.
She had never disclosed it to anyone, because she
jealously guarded her private life, but had decided at an early age what she
was looking for in a partner, but she was yet to find them, the result on the
onlooker was to give her an air of the mysterious.
“Which floor?” he asked
“2nd Please, I’m visiting a friend on Willow
ward” she said but didn’t know why she elaborated.
“Me too” he said “but not to see a friend”
“Oh”
“It’s my cousin, she was in a car accident a
couple of weeks ago” he explained “She was run off the road”
“She’s not a fiery redhead by any chance” Kriszsie asked
“She is” he said and laughed “How do you know
Aoife?”
“We work together” she replied
“Are you a CSI as well?”
“No, I’m a DC” Kriszsie said
They were laughing together when they walked onto
Willow ward and after kissing her, Aoife said
“What a nice surprise seeing you both at the same
time”
“We met in the lift” Kriszsie said
“What just the two of you?”
“Yes” she replied
“Did he ask you out?” Aoife asked
“I’m standing here you know” he said
“No, he didn’t” Kriszsie giggled
“Would you have said yes if he had?” Aoife
persisted
“I might have” she replied coyly
“There you go then” Aoife said to Oliver
“Have you finished” he retorted
“Not by a long way” Aoife replied and she and Kriszsie laughed
“It’s so much fun watching him squirm”
After Oliver and Krisztina left Aoife’s bedside
they went for a coffee on the ground floor and found out a little about each
other such as the fact that she
lived with her parents in Tipton while he had a cottage in Stone Bridge Lane,
Oakvale, and he was a Vet and she was a Police Officer.
They also found out that they had several
interests in common the chief of which was Golf.
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