A Mended Heart: A tragic Love Story

Chapter 8: 6th Floor

Maria woke up feeling like an emotional roller coaster. Last night was one of the best, most spontaneous, confusing, nerve wrecking, can't believe I just did that, unbelievably great nights of her life.
She hit snooze on her alarm for the third time. Maria just laid there, staring at her ceiling remembering how it felt to be in the moment. Consumed my passion and lust, giving in to her hormones and fantasies. As she started to feel hot and bothered, and a little moist between her legs she pondered.

Why did she see Zeek's face as she climaxed. She shook her head, smiling as she did hoping to shake the feelings away.

*Beep, Beep, Beep*

It was 11:15 am. Maria always started her Friday mornings late, being it her day off and all. Usually she would go for her afternoon run in the park but after her extracurricular activities last night, she figured she could skip her cardio today. Plus she wanted to swing by the office and check the system to see who had prescribed Marsha the antidepressant pills.

They were not over the counter, the brand was exclusive and still was in trial and not available to the public. It was an extra strong dose that had to be in the possession of a doctor and prescribing them to a pregnant woman was unethical and borderline illegal.

Now with her mind set to purpose, Maria pulled the covers off of her and slid out of bed. She took a nice hot shower, threw on an olive green sweat pants, with matching crop top hoody. It was not the thick traditional sweater material, it was a little thin and fit her nice and snug upon her body. Maria touched up her make-up making sure to keep up her appearance in case she ran into anyone at work and threw her dread locks into a bun.

About thirty minutes later, Maria parked her Infinity Q60 into her parking spot, two parking spots down from Marsha. She looked down at the nearly empty bottle of pills and fought back the tears.

"What the hell was going on? Why did you need these pills Marsh?" Maria wiped away a tear that escaped her eye and swore she would get to the bottom of this.

"Hey Dr. Elkanah, what you doing here?"

The guard at the employee entrance asked.

Maria smiled, "Just some spring cleaning."

Not in the mood to really socialize, Maria took the Staff Elevator up.

*Ding, Dong*

The door slowly closed but right before it did completely Maria got a glimpse of Ezeekiel walking towards the elevator. What was he doing here she wondered to herself, then she remembered he had to come pick up baby Laura. Maybe she should pop in to check on her and say a quick good bye to the baby. Maria's cheeks turned red, flushed with embarrassment because of her thoughts last night. No, its best she avoid Ezeekiel for now.

On the 6th floor now, one floor above the baby ward, Maria entered her office. She got on her computer and accessed the high profile medication database. Filtered her search to trial test medication. Then typed in the name "Incidamoxon". There had been six instances where the medication was prescribed, five authorized the other did not get DEA approval.

That had to be it she thought and if she could get this information, maybe that guy from the army could have too. Maria still had some digging to do, when were the pills prescribed, from what office and maybe then she could find out by who? This could be very bad for the hospital, Maria but even worse for Zeek.

*Knock, Knock, Knock*

"Who the hell knew I was here?"

Maria turned around. The sliding panel blinds were shut, she made sure to keep the lights off on purpose to not be disturbed.