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“What happened, baby?”
“Parker needs to stay another day or two. They haven’t cleared him to fly and I can’t miss any more school. I’ve probably missed too much as it is,” she explains.
“I’ll pick you up.”
“Okay.” I want to ask her where she and Parker stand right now, but she sounds exhausted and like she’s on the verge of a breakdown and I don’t want to be the reason for it. “I haven’t told him. I just… I wanted to get away and get to you and maybe that makes me a terrible person. But I just told him I needed to get back for my exam tomorrow and he seemed to understand. I’m going to tell him, JP. I just didn’t know how to do it.”
“I know, baby, it’s okay.” I can hear the anxiety in her voice and the fact that she’s getting even more worked up makes me want to do anything I can to calm her. “I know you will. Otherwise, it’ll be pretty awkward when you start preparing forourwedding,” I say in an attempt to lighten the mood.
She gives me a weak laugh before she continues, “so I’ll see you at seven?”
“I can’t wait to see you, baby. I hope you’re ready to get fucked hard,” I add, hoping that might help her attitude.
“I am,” she responds without missing a beat before she hangs up the phone.
“I’m sorry, did I hear you use the phrase ‘our wedding?’” Chloe asks as I sit back down and nod toward the bartender to bring me the check.
I give her a pointed look. “I walked away for a reason, Chloe.”
She waves me off as if to sayso what?“She says you asked her to move in.” Trey’s eyes move from Chloe to me in an instant.
His eyes are wide with intrigue but I can see a hint of happiness in them too. “Seriously?”
“Yes.” I nod. “This is real. It was never not real. I’ve loved her for so long and I let fear of so many things get in the way of what I wanted. I’m not doing that to us again.”
Chloe squeals and claps her hands together. “Okay, so if you’re talking about a wedding then there’s a ring? Tell me there’s a ring.”
“Not yet. But there will be. Soon.”
My thoughts drift back to the first time I had the very real thought that I could marry Whitney Monroe.
Four Years Ago:
Whitney and I have been together for about a year when she asks me that question that I’ve come to dread in the past.
“Where do you see yourself in five years?” She’s seated between my legs as she reads a book on her kindle that I know will have her riding my dick within the hour.Not that I’m complaining.She turns her head to look up at me. I’m watching television so I take a second to mute the sound and press my lips to her temple. Usually that question sends a rush of anxiety through me. Not wanting to tell a woman that I saw myself as potentially chief of surgery at the hospital where I was currently an attending physician. A job that doesn’t leave much time for a woman or kids or any of the things that she may be looking for. I tighten my grip around her.
“Wherever you are.” The words slip out of my mouth without even thinking.I can’t believe I just fucking said that.
She turns in my arms and looks at me. “What?”
Well, no going back now.I let out a sigh. “Wherever you and this pretty pussy are, that’s where I want to be.”
“Don’t… don’t make this about sex. JP seriously? I… You see me in your future?”
I nod. “I know you’re young and you may not—” I’m cut off by her hand over my mouth.
“Stop.” She twists her mouth and I see a rush of tears flood her eyes. “I assumed… I mean, I thought I was your mid-life crisis.”
I narrow my eyes at her playfully. “I am not having a midlife crisis, Whitney.”
She cocks her head to the side and raises an eyebrow at me. “Well, you did get a new car…”
“I hadn’t in like ten years! And I like Porsche’s.”
“And a very young girlfriend. Those are usually the big ones. Not to mention the whole skydiving thing.” I chuckle, remembering how hysterical she was a few weeks ago, when Trey and I decided to go skydiving.
“Well, regardless of the fact that I fit the criteria, you are not my mid-life crisis. You’re my everything,” I tell her and she launches herself into my arms and presses her lips to mine. She slides her tongue between my lips in search of mine and I meet her with the same enthusiasm, holding her to me by the back of her neck.
