Code Blue

~ Chapter 22 ~

Chapter 22
Friday September 15th
Mallory's POV

"He has a wife...AND a child?" Eli stared at me.

"Yes"

Eli shook his head in disappointment. "I need more alcohol"

"Give me one too" I sighed, letting my rule of little alcohol consumption go away for the night. I don't work in the morning, so I didn't have to worry about that, and I desperately wanted to just be more carefree for a night.

Wednesday's events have replayed in my mind since then. Cheating situation aside, I actually wasn't having an awful day with Harry then. He still had comments once in a while, but overall it wasn't the worst shift we had worked together. He once again had showed his ability to be a completely different person to me versus the kids he took care of, but that's just to be expected of his personality now.

But of course everything in my life just had to be too good to be true, because after a moment where we were even joking around with one another a bit, he had to go and drop another bombshell. I honestly did not think that he could get worse than cheating on his spouse and being smug about it, but he managed to one up himself.

"What kind of sick man breaks up his family for a random girl one night at a bar?" Eli asked, but quickly added. "Not that you're random, you're amazing Mallory, but-"

"I know what you meant, don't worry" I assured him.

"Well that's the thing, his family isn't broken up. He's still married" Veronica scoffed.

"The truth would come out eventually though" Eli pointed out.

"How? He clearly won't admit that to his wife, he's too much of a prick, and there's really no evidence that he slept with somebody at a bar. So unless Mallory tracks the wife down and says she unknowingly slept with her husband, he'd get away with it" Veronica explained. "Have you thought about doing that Mal?"

"Yeah" I twirled my thumbs in my lap. "But he'd probably get me fired, he hates me enough already. Could you imagine if I told her? He would 100% blame me for his family falling apart"

"Yeah but isn't there some sort of girl code or something?" Eli made a face.

"There is, but she's right. Dr. Asshole would make her life even worse at that hospital and ruin her career. Is it worth risking literally the rest of her life for a fling?" Veronica tried to reason, and honestly I was torn. I do believe that his wife deserves to know, but I also know that the entire thing would come crumbling down on me. "She would be blamed by him, even though he's the one who couldn't keep it inside his pants"

"True" Eli agreed with her, although he has a tendency to just agree with majority of what Veronica says. "So what about the other option? Is there any link at all that would tell her he cheated?"

"Didn't exchange numbers so nothing there" Veronica thought out loud.

"Bar tab? He bought you drinks, right?" Eli looked to me for clarification.

"He did, but he's also rich so I don't think it would matter much" I answered unsurely.

"And he could just say a friend joined him" Veronica added on. "Men think they're smart like that"

"Well what about-" Eli started to speak again, but an idea popped into my head and I said it the moment that it came to me.

"My underwear!"

Eli's eyes widened and he gave me a very confused look. "Woah okay, I feel like I need an explanation but I also am scared to ask"

Veronica giggled, and I just went ahead with my story. Sure some people think it might be a weird conversation to have with the group of people I'm sitting with, but Veronica and I have been best friends forever. With Eli, I look at him the same way I look at my brother. Eli is protective of both Ronnie and I when we go out by picking us up, watching our drinks, or trying to get me to make smart choices by not staying at a bar with a stranger.