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I’m just…in awe of him.
Every little thing about him is so incredible. He’s kind and strong and a total badass. He’s also building me a fire with a tree he chopped down himself to avenge me.
He doesn’t need to know why I was out there tied to it, right? I want to tell him. I want to pour my heart out to him. But it’s too personal. Too much information to share with someone I’ve just met.
I’m so relieved that he doesn’t have a wife or girlfriend. I would hate to be taking him away from his partner. I’d want him to be taking care of them instead.
I go back to watching him. His chest is covered with a sheen of sweat as he adds more wood to the fire. The crackling light is making shadows dance across the walls.
He looks so sexy in this light. My eyes trail over every inch of him.
He looks up, his eyes soft and dreamy.
A cascade of warmth flows through me as his eyes drink me up. I’m doing the same to him.
He takes a beat then walks down a hallway off the living room. I hear a door open and close gently, like he’s trying to make as little noise as possible.
“Here,” he says, coming back and handing me a huge, puffy blanket. “I want you to be warm and comfortable.”
He tucks the blanket around my shoulders and guides me to the sofa. It makes a chill run up my spine.
“I’m already warm,” I say.
“I just want to make sure.”
“What made you want to become a doctor?” I say as he sits in the big chair opposite me. “What’s the story behind it?”
“No story,” he says as he smiles and leans over to stoke the fire, one hand on his knee. “I wanted to help people. I’m good at science.” He looks over at me with intensity in his eyes, like he’s divulging some big secret, something that won’t appear on any resume. “And when someone needs me, I will move heaven and earth to help them. Every time.”
I blush and look away, letting out a yawn as I lean back on the sofa. It’s so soft. I’m just realizing now how tired I am. Adrian had my adrenaline ramped up to 100 percent but now that I’m all cozy, my eyelids feel like lead. I could float off into a dreamy sleep right here and now.
He leaves again and returns with his laptop, sitting down and putting on his thick-rimmed glasses.
“You’re staying here with me?” I say.
“I told you I wasn’t letting you out of my sight.”
My heart is gonna explode out of my freaking chest.
I cuddle up in my blanket and watch the fire, my heart totally ablaze.
This is just perfect.
Chapter Seven
Adrian
I keptwatch over her all night.
She fell asleep quickly, and I didn’t want to wake her. I didn’t want to move her into a guest room. She just looked too damn beautiful. Too incredibly peaceful.
I did some work, sent a few emails, and inquired about a few things I needed to attend to at the hospital where I worked back in California, but I was so distracted by the beauty sleeping just a few feet from me.
I closed my eyes a few times, imagined going to her and wrapping her up in my arms, making her mine, claiming her, kissing her, sliding myself inside her sweet, sexy little body, but I feel like she needs to be pampered a little. Spoiled. I want to keep her here, and I want her to stay not because all of her other options are shit, but because I’m her first choice.
She’s my first choice. She’s my only choice.
And I won’t just be an option for her, a choice among many.
