Page 419 of The Doctors Will See You Now

He moaned against my lips when I clenched around him.

And then we were both lost, chasing each other’s pleasure with desperate, needy abandon.

“More, more, more,” I urged him like a woman possessed, and his thrusts became uninhibited, deeper, faster, harder as his cock slid in and out of me.

“Charlotte,” he groaned, and it was my name on his lips that was my undoing.

My skin heated, and goose bumps pebbled my skin at the same time as the first waves of my orgasm rolled through me. I clenched around him hard, over and over again, as moans spilled from my lips.

And he was right behind me, riding out his climax inside of me with deep, heavy strokes and a guttural groan escaping from his lungs.

Never in my life had sex ever been this good. Hell, before Nick, life hadn’t been this good.

And if I was being honest with myself, it had everything to do with love.

I was in love with Nick, and for the first time in a very long time, that word didn’t scare the ever-living hell out of me. It only felt right.

I was halfway to Winnie’s house when my phone rang in my pocket. I struggled to free it as I made my way up the steps from the subway, and by the time I got it to my ear, it had stopped ringing.

My eyebrows pulled together as I spotted Winnie’s name on the screen as a missed call.

With a quick hit, I redialed her number and put the phone to my ear, stepping to the side of the sidewalk and out of foot traffic to talk to her.

“Hello?”

“Hey, Win. What’s up? I was still working my way out of the subway and couldn’t get to my phone fast enough to answer.”

“Oh, shoot. You’re already that close?”

My heart sank as the possibility of her going back on my having Lexi this weekend played out in my mind. She hadn’t done that since she’d agreed to our schedule, so I was sure there was a good reason, but that didn’t stop it from being disappointing.

“Yeah. Why? Is something wrong?”

“Ow! Fuck. Watch where you’re going!” she yelled on the other end, and despite myself, I smiled. Obviously, she was walking and talking, unlike me, and paying the consequence.

“You all right?”

She laughed. “Yeah, fine. I think I just elbowed a grandmother in the tit, but I’m fine.”

I chuckled and looked to my feet. “So, what’s up?” I asked again.

“Sorry. I was calling because I got called in to a team thing at the Empire State Building. It was just supposed to be a show, a run the stairs kind of thing, but one of our idiot players fucked up and got hurt. They took him to the closest hospital, but Wes refuses to listen to some other doctor’s opinion. So I couldn’t get Lexi from dance. She’s at Remy’s with him since he was at rehearsal with her anyway. I still can’t fucking believe he agreed to do that.”

I smiled. As much as I butted heads with him, one thing was undeniable. “He loves her.”

“That he does. The annoying jackass.”

I laughed again. “So, do you need me to wait a couple of hours, or can I go there to get her?”

“Oh no, no. I’m sorry. I don’t want you to miss time, I know how much she was looking forward to it, so absolutely go there. If she doesn’t get Vinito’s every other Friday night, I’ll never hear the end of it. You might not get a warm reception from Remy, but them’s the breaks.”

“Fair enough,” I agreed with a smile she couldn’t see. Even though I was on the shit end of the business, it still amused me that Winnie got a little bit of pleasure from fucking with me. It reminded me of why I’d once loved her so much.

At the thought of love, I clenched my free fist and my eyes as my stomach churned with nervousness. I was completely uncertain how the subject of Charlotte would go over, but I had to try. For me, for her—even for what I knew Charlotte could give Lexi in her life—I had to try.

“Look, Win. Before you go…”

“Yeah?”