FULL CIRCLE

Chapter 34

The short walk to the car had tired him and Miles was glad to get in and just sit down. Fastening his seat belt he leaned his head back and closed his eyes.

Natalie glanced over and asked, "Are you all right?"

"Yeah. All I want to do is get to the hotel and lay down without anybody to disturb me," he replied.

"Follow the doctor's orders and rest," she said.

"Which doctor? You, Connor, the ER one or myself?" Miles asked.

"I think you have everybody covered," Natalie answered. "Probably Eva and Frank might say the same thing."

"Probably."

As soon as they reached the hotel, Miles headed directly for his room. Once there he took a couple of pain meds and lay down to get some sleep.

Natalie had followed Miles and watched as he laid down. Pulling out her phone, she stepped into the hallway speaking quietly. "I finished up the autopsy on one of Miles' patients. Cause of death
was from an air embolus. I'll get started on the rest when I get back to the hospital. Right now I'm at the hotel with Miles."

"How is he?" Stephen asked.

"Better than he was last night. He took some pain meds and is lying down right now. I think he's just pretty much exhausted from the past few days," she answered.

"I'll tell Frank what the autopsy results were. I think I owe him my next paycheck," Stephen answered.

"I guess it's better than losing it to Eva at poker," Natalie said. "I'm going to head on back to the hospital to finish up the autopsies."

"All right. Let me know if you find anything different," Stephen told her and looked over at Frank.

The other man was shaking his head as he said, "I never thought I'd be so glad to get a case wrapped up."

"You were right. The patients didn't die of the influenza virus," Stephen informed him.

"I suspected as much. How's Miles?"

"Natalie said he took some pain meds and laid down. That concussion he's got really took a lot out of him," Stephen said.

Natalie took one last look at Miles before she left to get back to the hospital. Like Frank, all she wanted to do was finish up and put everything behind her.