Forbidden Desire

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A few weeks later

Everything was going great with Monica. She's been thriving at her new job, her relationship was great, and overall, she just felt like she was at the best place mentally.

Although everything had been good, Evan had been distant, but after talking to him about it, she found out he had been doing overtime. He still made time to see her or invite her over whenever he had the time, which made her happy.

Monica was currently at work, shadowing her coworker and helping her with paperwork. They were chatting and laughing at some the patients they had dealt with that day.

"Keagan had me cracking up. I see him being a comedian in the future." Her coworker Jamie said while Monica agreed. Monica looked up from behind the desk and saw Emmanuel, his ex wife, and their son going into one of the rooms. Her eyes widened and she turned around going to the other side of the desk, hoping he wouldn't see her.

"Hey Monica, we have to go to room 1412." Jill said grabbing the folder and making her way towards the room. Monica quickly got up and followed behind her. After a short walk down the hall, Jill knocked and entered the room and when Monica saw who it was, her heart dropped but she plastered a smile on her face.

"Hello! My name is Jill and this is Monica. We'll be helping you out today." Jill said smiling. Monica waved and Emmanuel's ex-wife smiled wide.

"Oh Monica! What a surprise, I didn't know you worked here, how are you doing?" She said happily and stood up to give Monica a hug.

"Hi! I'm doing great! How are you?" Monica said smiling.

"I was doing good, until this one gave us a heart attack here." She said rolling her eyes. Monica looked over at Emmanuel and he gave her a head nod. She gave him a small smile and directed all her attention to Jill.

"Oh I bet." Jill said laughing a little. "Monica is shadowing me, and will be helping out if you guys don't mind." Jill told both of them, and they agreed that it wouldn't be a problem. "I'll let you take the lead." Jill whispered. Feeling nervous and overwhelmed, Monica took a deep breath in and told out, and got to work.

"Hi Christian, I heard your arm is bothering you, could you tell me what happened?" Monica asked smiling.

"I was playing football with my friends outside, and when I was trying to catch the ball, I fell hard on the ground, and I heard something crack." He said. Monica smiled and walked over to him, starting to examine his arm and be gentle. Emmanuel was staring at her in awe, amazed at how good she was. His ex wife, Rianna, picked up on this, but kept her mouth shut. There's no way he had a thing for her right? She was young as hell. What could she offer?

"It happens. I remember playing basketball with my dad when I was little, and I fractured my arm trying to do a slam dunk." Monica said chuckling and shaking her head. Emmanuel smiled and chuckled a bit, causing Monica to look up at him, and make eye contact. She quickly looked away and continued to focus on Christian. Rianna caught on, and her blood was boiling. She couldn't believe what was happening right in front of her.

"Really? Did it take long to heal? I'm worried because football season is starting back soon, and I need to be able to play." Christian said, while Monica wrote notes for the doctor and radiologist.

"Nope, it only took about 6 weeks, but that's because mine was a fracture. As for you, it depends on what the x-ray shows, but I'm sure everything will be fine, and you'll be playing football in no time!" Monica said to him, earning a smile. "Now how about I give you something for the pain, and get you some snacks? Sounds good?"

"Yes sounds good." Christian responded to her happily. Since Monica wasn't allowed to put in orders for medicine yet, Jill got on it, and made sure to get the snacks for him as well.

"The radiologist should be in here soon, and give you answers on what's going on with Christian's arm." Monica said smiling at the two divorcees.

"Thank you." Rianna responded with a fake smile.

"Yeah, thank you Monica." Emmanuelu said smiling, causing her heart to do that weird thing. Before she could even fully process what was going on, she responded to both of them with my pleasure, and quickly left the room. As she was leaving, the doctor was going in, so she handed her the clipboard, and went back to her desk to type up some stuff for his paperwork before having to leave.

A few hours later..

Monica was back home, all settled in, on the phone with Evan. She was trying to stay awake, but was dozing off listening to him talk about any and everything.

"Babe?" He said after she got quiet for too long.

"Hmm?"

"Are you falling asleep?" He asked her chuckling.

"Mhmmmm."

"Go ahead and go to sleep. I'll talk to you tomorrow. And don't forget about next Tuesday. You need to put it in your calendar immediately. Cause I know you, you'll forget."

"Yeah, yeah. I hear you." Monica said sleepily. "Goodnight Ev."

"Goodnight babe." He responded before hanging up the phone. Monica fell asleep with the thought of next Tuesday on her mind..

To be continued...