“I’m capable of getting myself dressed!” I tell him, swatting him away and grabbing my bra.
“Fuck,” he whispers when I drop the towel.
“Sorry, babe. I’m not sharing if you aren’t.” I let him know with a shrug of my shoulder as I pull on my t-shirt.
“He’s being a prick. I never shared a woman with him,” Caine says.
“I feel like that’s only half the story. Don’t lie to me, and I need your help now so I can put on my shorts.”
Caine walks over and kneels down to help me pull on my bottoms. He then lifts me up and carries me out of the room.
“You really are an asshole, you know that?” Caine yells at Kyleas he places me on the sofa in the living room.
Kyle just grins a big, toothy grin in response.
“If Kyle saw a woman I slept with naked, it was after I had her,” Caine says. “That came out sounding really bad. I didn’t mean it the way it sounded,” he adds, holding up his hands in surrender.
I laugh at the look of frustration on his face. “I believe you.”
I watch from my perch while Caine makes me a sandwich, Kyle grabbing some slices before putting the meat and bread away for Caine.
Caine walks over to me with the plate in hand and sits next to me, kissing my forehead. He puts the plate on the coffee table and grabs one of the sandwiches for himself.
When Kyle sits down in the single chair, we eat in companionable silence. I am hungry and actually eat everything without issue.
Once we finish. Kyle grabs our plates and walks to the kitchen.
“Let’s give it some time, see if the food helps. Have you had fainting issues in the past?” he asks as he places the dishes in the sink.
“No, but I’ve never been this sick before,” I explain. Kyle just looks at me, his expression unreadable. “What?”
“I’m just thinking,” he says. “Headaches? Migraines? Ear pain?”
“No.” I shake my head.
“Have you had anything to drink since you got back from the clinic?”
“She went straight to bed,” Caine says.
Kyle opens the fridge and grabs a bottle of water and tosses it to Caine, who catches it one-handed. I’m kind of awe-struck by the whole thing and don’t immediately react when Caine hands me the water.
He smirks.
“I think we know what’s wrong,” Kyle says.
Over the next hour, I drink two bottles of water. By the time Kyle leaves, I’m finally able to get up and walk a bit.
Caine, the sweet man, gets my wet clothes out of the shower, and does a load of laundry for me.
“I’m gonna see how tomorrow goes. If you’re able to get up and everything, I’ll go back to work.”
While he transfers the wet clothes to the dryer, I sit on the sofa and read a book. I lift my head when a shadow forms over me. I smile when Caine lifts his arms and helps me stand. With my hand in his, we walk to the back porch.
My mouth drops as I look around. Colors of orange and red light up the sky and my eyes widen at the beauty before me. I haven’t been out here at all, and for the first time I see the vast land his ranch sits on. Grassy hills surround the property. I caneven see the stream we walked to the other day.
Caine walks me to a porch swing and sits beside me. I curl into him, my legs beneath me and enjoy the view.
Chapter Twenty-Nine
