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She sighed, “He asked me if we had to leave.”
I know I could see it on her face. She was feeling guilty about Alex not wanting to go home. Well, if things carry on like this then everything's going to work out a lot quicker than I'd hoped. It felt so natural being with her; I don't want it to end.
“Are you coming or not?”
She seductively got up from the bed, I took her hand, and in an instant, I knew the answer to her question.
“Maybe Alex is right, You don’t need to leave.”
She gently kissed me on the lip and said, “One step at a time.”
Nia had a point; we had just got to this stage. We hadn’t even had a conversation about where we were going next. All I knew that everything I had dreamt about her being back in my life was far from a fantasy. I wanted her to stay here with me. Not just for the weekend, but forever and she could pretend that she didn’t feel the same, but I knew that she did.
Chapter Ten
Hunter
The last few days I had been going to the office and even showing up at Alex’s school to help Carol with the school runs like a love sick teenager. To say that things were going well between Nia and me was an understatement. We were talking on a different level. I suppose neither of us was kids and we couldn’t keep behaving like that anymore.
“Hey, what are you doing here?” she asked as I came to pick her up from work. I just dropped the kids from school and seeing her tired eyes made me know that she didn’t have a good day.
I had a rose hidden behind my back, brought it out and said, “This is for you.”
She smiled, “How sweet,” as she reached up and gave me a kiss and crushed the rose that I bought her to put a smile on her face.
“Well I know that you work hard and I thought that you could do with a treat.”
“Hunter, we talked about this, I need to work. I can’t leave my job. I want us to do this, but slowly.”
I nodded my head, “Damn, I was just going to take you out for breakfast.”
She shrugged, “Okay. Sorry, I thought that we were going to have the moving in talk again.”
We had it, but the impatient man inside me was arguing with the one that wanted to cuddle up to her every night and not think about anything but having her by my side.
She left her car in the carpark as I promised to bring her to work the next day. I hadn’t told her that I had a little surprise for her back at the house. One that I hoped that she would enjoy. She was talking about a customer that wasted her whole night, and she spent most of it looking into the details only to discover that his claim is invalid.
“I hate things like that.”
“I know, the
medical system in this country is so fucked up.”
I nodded, “But it works.”
“Sometimes, for people like you. But to tell someone that the hospital has the right to refuse treatment on his wife because it’s not covered by the insurance. It just rubs me up the wrong way.”
“What do you think needs to be done?”
She smiled at me, “You can’t save the world.”
I knew that much, “But I could make a difference if I had the right person to show me the way.”
I kissed her hand, and she looked at me, probably trying to figure out if I was genuine or not.
“I meant it. Just don’t be so hard on yourself.”
I opened the car door for her and I was excited about the surprise I had for her back at my place. The truth of the matter was, every time she came over. I felt bad about her going back to her place. It wasn't in the best part of town, and I knew that Alex loved spending time with Gia. They got on like a house on fire.
