"You're the reason I still have it around. Was it not the only words you hear when i talk to you, I wouldn't be using it all."
Kelsie resisted the urge to scoff and hummed slightly.
"Don't you have a bunch of surgeries tomorrow? I'm not any of your assistants. So why are you on the line with me instead of them?"
Jade Callahan's voice came up sounding bothered almost immediately.
"My assistant got into a car accident a week ago and was hospitalized. I came with another resident whom I'm not very close with."
Using her free hand, Kelsie placed the portrait on her thigh and wiped off the dust with her fingers before placing it on her desk without a word.
Thirty seconds went by without her saying anything that Jade had to speak up again.
"I know you've not hung up yet. Why aren't you saying anything?"
Kelsie pressed her lips into a thin line.
