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“So you want me to lie to you?” she asks, drawing back full lips from perfect white teeth.
Amory groans and puts her head into her hands.
“You have got to be kidding me,” she says.
“Sorry, sweetheart,” Blake says, but she doesn’t sound sorry and Amory wants to punch her again.
She sees Blake’s strong capable looking hands and can only imagine them fucking Natalie.
Oh for god’s sake.
Amory groans again and looks out the window. She knew that she wouldn’t be the only doctor coming from the US to help, but she never dreamed that one of her colleagues would be none other than Dr. Blake Gold, her old rival, hated enemy, the woman who slept with her girlfriend.
She can’t believe her misfortune, and she swears that this must have been intentional by some cruel design. It’s not a secret that she doesn’t like Dr. Gold, and someone is surely laughing at her right now.
She doesn’t know how she’s going to be able to make it through this entire trip with her professionalism intact. Blake is infuriating as ever, and what’s worse is that she is acting like she never wronged Amory. Did she somehow forget what she did to her, or does she just not care? Amory can’t figure it out and it drives her crazy as the flight drags on.
She can’t fall asleep like she had planned, instead analyzing her interactions with Blake. She can’t get over how infuriating the other woman is or how her belly heats up every time she glances at her.
She then starts thinking of Natalie, for the second time this week, and she hates it. She has tried so hard to forget the woman she once loved, and she has been mostly successful over the years, burying herself in her work instead of thinking about her ex-girlfriend and how she can’t trust anyone enough to date again.
But now she can’t forget her. Dr. Blake Gold’s mere presence demands thinking about her. She wonders what Natalie saw in her. She’s obviously attractive, sure, but Amory can’t get over how infuriating she is, how self-assured and overly confident. Maybe that’s the appeal, because compared to Blake, Amory’s never had much confidence.
Amory has always had to work so hard to be good enough as a doctor, she never had enough time for fun or the pleasures in life. Medicine always seemed to come naturally to Blake, everything was always easy for her including seducing women. All of them. Including the straight ones and other people’s girlfriends.
No woman was safe around Dr. Blake Gold’s infuriatingly perfect smile and easy charm, it was a well known fact.
Amory doesn’t get it; what could possibly drive someone to cheat on or with someone’s partner? She would never dream of it, always being loyal, but she wants to know what would drive someone to that. It’s a self-destructive curiosity, she knows that. But it doesn’t stop her from overthinking.
Maybe there was something wrong with her and that’s why Natalie decided to cheat. Maybe she wasn’t there enough or wasn’t good enough in bed. What does Dr. Blake Gold have that she doesn’t?
Amory can’t stop thinking about it and it’s driving her crazy. She opens up her laptop and goes to one of the downloaded books. If Blake can read while sitting beside her, then so can she. But she has trouble focusing on the words. Blake’s presence distracts her.
The rest of the plane ride continues like that. Blake reading, Amory trying to read and failing. Amory just hopes and prays that wherever Blake is going, it’s not the same place as her. There are surely over a dozen different clinics open to support the Cholera outbreak. After all, the plane ride could just be a coincidence. When they get to the airport, it could turn out that Blake is going to a completely different clinic, and that’s what Amory hopes for.
Her hopes don’t work, though. When they get to the airport, both of them are silent as they collect their luggage, Amory looks around for the driver that was promised would come for her, and she sees a cardboard sign with her name on it. Dr. Paver. Below her name, however, is another and she wants to cry. Dr. Gold.
Amory looks at Blake and sees that Blake is already looking at her. Beautiful eyes and face. Lovely broad shoulders and a natural elegance to her movement.
“I hate you,” Amory says to Blake with as much venom as she can muster.
She can’t deny the feelings of pleasure and guilt that she feels when Blake’s expression changes to one of hurt. Blake doesn’t say anything and the two of them walk over to the man holding the sign.
“Nice to meet you,” Amory says, ignoring Blake, “I’m Doctor Paver.”
“And I’m Doctor Gold,” Blake says.
“Welcome,” the man says, “I’m Rajan, and I’m here to drive you to your cabin.”
“Wait,” Amory says, “our cabin? we’re sharing a cabin?”
“Yes, ma’am,” Rajan says. “We usually have two to a cabin, sometimes three or four, but you two will be the only ones sharing your cabin.”
“Great,” Amory says, trying to not let her displeasure show as she looks at Blake. As if this day couldn’t get worse. She doesn’t know how she’s going to survive this trip if Blake is going to be the first person she sees in the morning and the last thing she sees before she goes to bed.
“Come, come,” Rajan says. “Let’s go to the car and I will show you around.”
Rajan talks as he leads them outside to a black car, seemingly unaware of Blake and Amory’s animosity toward one another, and the dirty looks that Amory keeps giving Blake. But all Blake does is smile and smirk back, and it drives her crazy. When Rajan finds the car in the airport parking lot, he helps the two of them put their luggage in the trunk, and then Blake and Amory get inside, sharing the backseat.
