Romance: Assistant to the Billionaire by Jodi Cooper Page B

toned and he has nothing but muscles on top of muscles.
    In my lonely moments, I often had fantasies about Archer Phillips.
    Some of those fantasies included Archer riding a white stallion and rescuing me from an oncoming stampede of horses. He rides up on his beautiful horse, picks me up in his strong arms, and we ride to the sunset together.
    Sigh…
    With as much medicine they had to give him to sedate him, he wasn’t going to be waking up any time soon. 
    I knew that it was going to be very interesting considering he came into the hospital yelling and trying to throw his money at us all. I don’t know if it was the alcohol or all the pain that he was in, but he really came off as a snobby jerk.
    It was a quiet night in the ER before he came in the ambulance. His party crew came shortly behind him.
    It took us two hours to calm them down and clear them out of the waiting room because they were upsetting all of the other families that were sitting in there.
    And once Archer came out of surgery we felt it was good to keep him sedated and away from the crowd just for the sake of peace.
    Besides no one in his little crew would’ve been able to see him anyway because it was hospital protocol to only allow family in the room when a patient was dealing with a major injury and none of them were family.
    We tried to call his mother but she said that she was so tired of Archer’s antics and was not leaving her charity event to come babysit him. Needless to say his family are a real piece of work. And since he didn’t have a wife and kids, the only ones allowed in and out of the room are the nurses and the doctors.
    I take another glance at him in all his sexiness and I can’t help but think of my ex-boyfriend Jack, who was also very handsome and charming, and how he ran off with my stepsister Joanne.
    Jack leaving me was the beginning of the downfall in this story that I call my life.
    After Jack left me, I lost all of my savings in an investment for a technology company that went horribly wrong. They went bankrupt two weeks after I gave them my money and I was devastated. They assured me that it was a good investment but apparently they didn’t how to manage money.
    Now I have to pay back a huge loan that I took out to invest in it in the first place and it was a lot of money. I took out a twenty-five thousand dollar loan and I had no idea how I was going to pay it back.
    Luckily I still have my job because right now being a nurse was the only thing that was keeping me sane in this cold and crazy world. Plus, I love my job and helping people, despite everything that has happened to me over time because I still have faith in human nature. 
    Archer wakes up from his sedation and is looking around the room in panic. I can tell that he doesn’t know where he is and I don’t want him to make any sudden movements because it will injure his back even more and that’s not what I want.
    “You’re in the hospital. I will go get a doctor to explain to you what has happened to you,” I say softly so as to keep him calm.
    He looks me over and what looks like a smile crosses over his face. “And you are?”
    “I’m Lara. Your nurse for the night,” I say. “I’ll be the main one helping take care of you until shift change and then you’ll get a new one.”
    “Okay,” he says. “Can I get a cup of water? My mouth is really dry.”
    I walk over beside the bed where there is a small pitcher of water and some plastic cups. I pour him some and place it to his lips so that he can drink a little bit and place it back down on the stand.
    “Is that better? Or would you like some more?”
    “No, that was enough thank you,” he says softly.
    “Well I’m going to get the doctor so that he can explain to you what exactly is going on,” I say as I stare at him.
    He seems a lot nicer than he did when he first came into the hospital yelling and screaming at everybody about who he was.
    He nods his head at me and I walk out of the