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“I’ll be here tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow seems like a long time from now.”
Smiling, Natalie pushed him toward her office door. “Goodnight, Matthew.”
“I’ll call later,” he promised, leaning in for a last kiss.
“I’d like that.”
* * *
Matthew didn’t try to talk her into dinner when Natalie said no on Thursday, but that night when he called their conversation quickly morphed into conveying his frustration.
“I want to see you outside the hospital.”
“I’m on my way home now,” she told him, truly being in her car driving toward her condo.
“Carrie’s down for the night. What am I supposed to do? Wake her and drag her to your place so I can hold you?”
“You know I don’t want you to do that.”
“I miss you in my bed, Natalie.”
“I miss being there,” she admitted, keeping her eyes glued on the road as she drove. It had only been a few nights since she’d been there, but oh, how she missed his body pressed up against hers. How had she gone all those weeks without him?
“Come to me, Natalie.” His voice was low, full of temptation.
“Now?”
“Yes.”
A million responses formed in her head but none of them came out of her mouth.
“You’re silent because you’re rerouting your GPS to take you to my house, right?”
She couldn’t go to his house. She just couldn’t.
“I remember how to get to your house,” she admitted. After all, she had spent most of the weekend there.
“Then you have no excuse. How soon will you be here? I’ll put the popcorn on.”
Natalie’s cheeks heated. “No popcorn.”
“You prefer something stickier?”
“I haven’t eaten, but...”
“It’s after nine, Natalie. You’re just now leaving work and haven’t had any dinner?”
She didn’t deny his claim because, in her excitement over how well Delaine and her baby had been doing when she’d checked in on the pregnant woman and getting caught up in documenting her findings, Natalie had forgotten to eat.
“Your boss really is a jerk.”
He sounded so outraged, she laughed. “I’ll let him know you said so.”
“How soon will you be here?”
“I’m not coming, Matthew. It’s late. I’m going home, showering, eating, reading for a while, then going to bed.”
