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“I’m just getting some clothes for while I’m staying at Sav’s place. Can’t keep wearing the same things.” Luckily, he’d kept a spare T-shirt in his office at the clinic that he’d put on this morning.
“You still want to stay?”
“Pretty hard to be your guardian if I’m not living with you.”
“Even after I slept on you last night?”
“Especially because you slept on me last night.”
He waited for her response.
“You like having no sleep and a sore back?”
“I’m a doctor. I’m used to no sleep or sleeping in weird places. This time, I got to hug a very cute girl who smelled a lot better than a hospital room.”
She snorted. “Not sure if that’s a compliment or not.”
“What are you going to call your octopus?”
“My what? Oh. I’m not sure. Octopus?”
“Original.”
She gave him a faint smile.
He pulled up outside his place.
“This is your house?”
“Yep. You sound surprised.”
“It’s so cute.”
“I haven’t had time to make many changes to it. Wait there.”
He heard her sigh as he climbed out of the truck. Walking around, he lifted her down. He held her hand as he led her carefully to his place, unlocked the door, and turned off the alarm.
“Make yourself at home while I get some things.”
* * *
Guilt filledher as she looked around his house.
He had a perfectly good bed in this charming house. And instead, he was sleeping on a couch. Or sitting up in Ethan’s small bed with her on his lap.
So insist that he stays here rather than with you.
Problem was . . . she liked having him around. Well, more than that. She craved him. Couldn’t stop thinking about him.
The things he said . . . the way he talked to her . . . it seemed like he wanted to be with her.
How would that work when she was a mess of fear and insecurities and couldn’t imagine ever being with a man again?
As he drove her back to Aidan’s place, she was quiet, thinking over everything. It was well past lunchtime when they arrived.
Shoot. She should go grocery shopping. And do some work, so she could keep paying the bills.
That was going to be interesting with her arm in a sling.
