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“Appointment?” Tessa looked around the empty apartment as if that would provide some sort of clue as to what in the fuck I was talking about. “What appointment? And why are you calling me ma’am?”
Tessa reached for my clipboard, but I pulled it back, mostly so that she wouldn’t see there was nothing on it but a lame ass attempt at sketching her.
“The doctor is ready to see you, if you’re ready to proceed?” I pushed forward.
“Proceed with what?” She punched my shoulder, but there was a grin on her face nonetheless. I did my best to keep my face straight. She was just too fucking cute when she got all upset and bothered. I might just have to take her myself out here without Ellis and Cade. We could just say there was an insurance problem or something. People believed people in glasses.
“Ms. Stewart.” I lowered my face so I was eye to eye with her. “Have you been drinking?”
She poked my chest. “Have you?” she laughed.
“Look,” I said, “the doctors are very busy and they’re looking forward to seeing your responses to certain… stimuli. So if you don’t mind.”
I gestured toward the door, but Tessa stubbornly crossed her arms with a mischievous grin on her sexy fucking lips. “Not until you tell me what you’re up to.”
“Ms. Stewart, you’re being rather difficult, did you know that?”
She tried to keep a straight face, but the corners of her lips twitched up. She challenged me with brown eyes that only grew darker as her pupils started to dilate.
“Do you know what we do with difficult patients?” I asked, raising an eyebrow.
Tessa stood on her tip-toes and pressed her face close to mine. Her voice was low and seductive when she whispered to me. “What’s that, Irish man?”
I shook my head slowly, biting my lip at the look on her face. Then I shrugged. “I didn’t want to have to do this.”
Tessa cried out gleefully as I easily hoisted her over my shoulder. I spanked her ass for good measure, and she squirmed as I walked her toward the hallway to her bedroom. I received curious glances from Ellis and Cade as I marched in. But I just gave each of them a reassuring wink, then flopped Tessa on the bed and grinned down at her.
When I first moved in next door to her, I used to play my drums long and hard and louder than I thought was possible late into the night to see her, to see the real, uncovered, unhidden her. I’d called her every “T” name in the book but her own, just to get a rise out of her. I’d wanted desperately to see her, to know her, to get her to uncover the real Tessa behind the pretend wallflower.
But as I looked down at her on the bed, with Ellis and Cade on either side of me, I knew I’d never see the walls she’d once built again. There was nothing between us, nothing at all. She was herself. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, nothing to keep covered any longer. She was perfect. I winked down at her.
“The doctor will see you now.”
Hair a mess around her, chest heaving in anticipation, hooded eyes fixed on me, she was beautiful.
My Tessa.
OurTessa.
Ellis
Tessa watched me carefully as I pulled a chair up to the edge of her bed. “Ms. Stewart,” I said, voice soft, “we’re going to start this sex study by taking a listen to your heart. Is that alright?”
“Oh…I get it now! This is the sex study.Oursex study.” Her eyes twinkled in delight. Then something shifted there, something hot and sultry. I swallowed heavily when I saw her bite her lip, breath catching.
“We’ll have to take your shirt off,” I said.
“Okay,” Tessa whispered.
I glanced over at Cade and held back a chuckle as he squirmed uncomfortably, still in his admittedlyverytight scrubs. So I might have gotten one or two sizes too small for him. Hey, he looked good, alright?
“Nurse,” I said, nudging my chin in Tessa’s direction.
Cade climbed onto the bed on his knees and moved behind her. “Miss,” he said over her shoulder.
Tessa smiled sweetly up at him, then raised her arms over her head. Cade pulled her T-shirt past her head and they kissed sweetly. Then Tessa returned her steady, trusting, loving gaze back to me like two magnets that will always be drawn together, no matter what. My eyes traveled down her naked chest and the goosebumps that covered her bare arms and when my eyes returned to her face I found her still watching me.
“It might be a little cold.”
