Roderick bristled. He had been looking for a doctor to work for, too, and had been rejected! Quite rudely, at that!

“Getting ahead of your station, are you?”

Having already made an ass of himself, Roderick decided to double down.

“Quite right you are,” he huffed.

His lips thinned when she asked him a question, and he tossed the flower behind him.

“To see if God loves me.”

That sounded way less pathetic in his head.