Consuela Mardona's POV

"Are you sure you don't mind me leaving early?" Maria, the other dayshift nurse in the blood bank in my unit in the basement of Hospital Angeles Metropolitano in Mexico City, looked at me hopefully.

"Have fun on your date," I said. "I've got nothing waiting for me except soap operas."

"I owe you," she replied as she rushed off to the locker room to change. The door closed, and I let out a sigh. Maria was fun to work with, but fun wasn't the same since Master Vespucci entered my life. He was waiting for me in my apartment after my last day of work before...