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I smile. “Night, Charlie girl.”
It’s not long before we’re both carried away to a night of rest. She’s definitely what I was missing. I just need to figure out how to make nights like tonight permanent for us.
CHAPTERNINETEEN
Charlotte
My sister is dating someone. At least, I think she is. She’s smiling all the time, and she’s been home less and less. Not that I can say anything. I’m hardly ever here either, and when I am, Spencer is here with me. After the night he showed up, stating he hadn’t been sleeping without me, we’ve not slept a night apart since.
That was two months ago. During that time, I’ve had two more interviews with the Calloway Cancer Center, and I was told they would be making a final decision at the board meeting that happened last night. I’ve been on pins and needles all day waiting, hoping for a phone call.
I still haven’t told Spencer. I didn’t feel like I needed to unless there was something to tell. I am certain that even if this job doesn’t come through, I’m going to keep looking. I don’t want others to assume I slept my way to the top, and if I’m being honest, Lucia, my new boss, the one who wants my boyfriend, we don’t get along all that well. I don’t think she knows about us, but the suspicion is there, and she’s mean.
The buyout has been final for the last six weeks or so, and while I still feel like I’m breaking the rules dating the boss’s boss, I no longer let it eat at me. That’s because I fell in love with him. Yeah, I went from kissing my rival to giving myself to him heart and soul. He owns every piece of me, well, not every piece. For some reason, Spencer keeps putting us sleeping together on the back burner. There isn’t a place on our bodies that the other hasn’t touched, but he’s never been inside me. Well, his cock has never been inside me. I know he’s trying to take things slow, but the wait is killing me.
I want him.
I’m in love with him.
It’s time.
My desk phone rings, pulling me out of my thoughts. “This is Charlotte,” I answer.
“Charlotte, where are we with hiring a new nurse for triage?” Lucia asks. Snarks is more like it.
“The ads are up online, as well as in the paper. You just gave me the go-ahead to post the job three days ago,” I remind her. Of course, my tone is kind, not that she deserves it.
“Get it done.” The line goes dead, and I roll my eyes.
“Who was that?” I hear a familiar voice. I look up to find Spencer standing just inside my doorway.
“Hey. What are you doing here?” Not that I’m not happy to see him. I just wasn’t expecting him.
“I had a meeting that got canceled, and I thought we could go to lunch.”
I glance down at the clock on my computer and see that it is, indeed, lunchtime. “I can’t believe it’s lunchtime already,” I tell him as I stand, grabbing my phone and purse. “What happened to the lunch we packed you this morning?” I ask, keeping my voice low.
“Not passing up time with you, Charlie girl.” He smiles, and my heart melts. Just like it does anytime this man is near me.
“I’m already yours,” I whisper. “You don’t have to charm me.”
“Damn right you’re mine.” He slaps my ass, just a love pat really, but it still shocks me. Luckily, we are both still in my office. I really need a different job. I have no desire to be the gossip at the water cooler.
* * *
“I still can’t believe you planned a picnic,” I tell him. He drove us to the deli on the edge of town, the one that seems to be our go-to place. Instead of grabbing our usual table in the back, Spencer asked them to make our food to go and drove us to the park. The weather is not sweltering, but it’s a warm fall day here in Charleston.
“I’m very romantic,” he counters cheekily.
“I know you are. I live with you, well, I mean not really.” I wave my hands in the air, flustered. “You know what I mean.”
“You could, you know. If you wanted to.”
I have to focus on swallowing the drink of lemonade and not choke as his words register. “I don’t know that we’re ready for that, Spencer.”
“We spend every night with each other. We don’t sleep without the other next to us. How are we not ready?”
I bite down on my bottom lip. “Because there are still things we haven’t shared, and maybe you might change your mind.”
