FULL CIRCLE
Chapter 12
It was close to 6:00am when Rosie finally passed away. Miles removed his fingers from her wrist and checked for breathing and heartbeat. It was all just a formality to make it official.
Ms. Melendez stirred and said, "Mrs. Landon will be in at 7:00"
"Do you have a doctor you can call to sign off on the death certificate?" Miles asked.
"We do. I'll have Mrs. Landon call him."
Miles pulled up the sheet to cover Rosie's face. "If you'll excuse me, I need to check up on my patients upstairs."
"All right. I'll be in the kitchen seeing what the cook is scaring up for breakfast. And get some coffee brewing," she answered stifling a yawn. "You're more than welcome to join me."
"I might just take you up on your offer," Miles said, packing up his kit to take upstairs. He had decided that getting anymore sleep was going to be a definite impossibility.
He was already on his second cup of coffee when Eva showed up looking a little too bright eyed and pulled together in contrast to his messy appearance. "Morning, Eva," he said tiredly.
"And a good morning to you too. I brought breakfast and coffee... Although I can see you've already started on that," she observed setting a take out cup and bag on the table.
"It's been a long night. One of the residents was dying and I was called in to see to her. Been up since probably 2:00am." He reached for the take out bag.
"I got you a veggie omelet just in case there wasn't anything to your liking here," Eva replied. She had noticed that he'd said resident instead of patient. That meant the person apparently hadn't been on of those he'd been called in to care for.
"You speak to Connor or Natalie yet?" Miles asked, unwrapping the breakfast offering.
"I was just planning to go there next," Eva replied.
"Have her call me if she's found out anything about this mysterious illness," Miles said, reaching for the omelet. Although at the moment he was more tired that hungry, he knew he had to eat anyway.
"I'll see you later," Eva told as she headed for the door.