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His ex.
My stomach twists. “She’s been asking about you, and I thought maybe you wouldn’t want to talk to her… you know, today.”
“Today?”
“Figured you had enough to manage today without adding my ex-wife?”
I nod, giving him a soft smile that I know doesn’t reach my eyes. “Thanks.”
He sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose.
“I had another phone call,” he says. I look up at him as I push my toiletry case against the mirror.
“We’ve got a kid out here, a little north? We don’t usually recruit down here, but since I’m here…”
“Go,” I say, with a shrug. “You’re here. You might as well.”
“It’d be tomorrow. I’m not leaving tonight.”
“Oh, right.” Tomorrow. When I’m supposed to go to this center to see my mom.
“I can cancel it,” he says.
“No, that’s silly. You should go. It’s not like you’ll be able to come into the session anyway.”
“But I wanted to—”
“Derek,” I say, squeezing his bicep. God, it’s firm. It’s strong. He could do so many things with that bicep. Massage my feet, my neck, toss me around or hold me down while he—
He laughs, low and heated.
Fucking pregnancy hormones.
“Fuck,” I say, realizing what I’ve just said out loud.
“It’s okay,” he says. “I sort of like hearing your unfiltered thoughts. It’s good for my ego.”
“If your ego was any bigger, it’d be your—”
“You do know you’re talking about loud again, right?”
“Yes,” I say.
He grins down at me and presses a soft kiss to my forehead. Like I’m a child.
“Want to get dinner?” he asks.
“Fine, but I’m not ordering off the kid’s menu.”
“What?”
I push past him and just keep walking as he laughs to himself behind me.
CHAPTER25
DEREK
“Sure do appreciateyou coming all the way out here.”
