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“Maybe you should lock the door and you can lay down with me.” I pulled her arm, and she stumbled into my lap.
“Boone, please, I can’t do this, not here.” Her words were soft, and I knew it was taking everything in her to say them. Leaning up, I pressed my lips to hers and she gave into me and kissed me back. Her lips tasted like mint, and her lips were so incredibly soft and inviting.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I thought you were ready for the scan.” The man who ran the CT walked in and immediately walked out, pulling the door closed behind him.
“Fuck. Boone, let me go.” Ginny struggled against my hold before I let her go.
“Come on, Gin, it was only a kiss. It’s not the end of the world.” I tried to laugh it off, and she spun around. Her blonde hair flew about her face, sticking to her lip gloss. She was extra cute swiping it away.
“This is my job, Boone, my career. If I don’t have this, I have nothing.” She threw up her arms and her hands slapped her sides when they fell back down. “I’ve worked hard to make this happen. Then there are the kids. I can’t help them without this. Boone, I don’t know if it’s worth it.” She walked out of the room and the man who interrupted us walked back in shortly after.
Her words rang through my head, drowning out the hum of the machine. “It’s not worth it,”she said it wasn’t worth it which really meant I wasn’t worth it. Was she really done this time? I thought we had made strides in our relationship since Christmas, hell since I got hurt and was home more.
That was it.
She was preparing herself for me to be gone again. It was like this every off season, when I got ready to report to camp. She closed herself off and began to build walls so she could live with missing me.
“Mr. Boone, I’m done. You can go back to Virginia’s office.” Swinging my legs off the bed, I had a hallway to decide if I was going to fight, or walk out the door and go back to the team doctors and tell them I was done here. She knew I played. She had known it since we were kids. This wasn’t anything new, and I wasn’t ready to call it quits.
CHAPTER23
GINNY
Nearly jumpingto my feet when the door to my office slammed against the wall, I looked up to see Boone filling the doorway with his massive shoulders. “You take it back Virginia.” Boone’s voice was harsh and loud, not something I was used to hearing from him. His limp was improved and likely would have been gone if not for the brace. His dark eyes bore into me and his jaw was clenched.
“Take what back Boone?” I wasn’t playing a game. I really didn’t have any idea what he was talking about.
“What you said about me, or us, not being worth it. Take it back.” Boone’s face held pain and hurt, filled his words rather than the harshness that he entered with. I don’t think I’d ever seen him like this. Even when we separated, he hadn’t been this angry. I wanted him to fight, I wanted him to show me I was as important, or even more important, than a game. But here I was once again choosing the safe route, chasing my career over him. “I won’t do this again Gin, I didn’t let you back in to have you walk away. It almost killed me last time, and I know I won’t survive it this time. Damn it Ginny, I love you. I love you with every bone in my body. I’ve never stopped.” Tears welled in his eyes and his hand shook as he stood there with clenched fists. “When I would come home, I would drive past your house, wonder what it would be like if I just knocked on your door and said hi” It wasn’t the declaration of love or the fact he drove by the house when he was here but something else caught my ear that drowned all that out.
Standing, I walked over to the sofa and sat down, patting the seat beside me. The couch sagged under his weight and he stretched out his long legs. “What do you mean, almost killed you?”
“Gin, that’s not what we’re talking about.” He crossed his arms and avoided looking at me.
“This is what we’re talking about. Boone, I want to know.” Reaching over, I put my hand on his leg and he wrapped his hand around mine. “I want to know everything, because I walked away, because I don’t think you cared. It was always hockey, and I knew that, but that last year of our marriage, something switched in you and the man I knew didn’t exist outside the rink.”
“Letting you leave was the worst mistake I’ve ever made. I started drinking, managed to get myself benched for a few games because I missed practice or showed up drunk. It took the team intervening to get me back to myself.” As he talked, he gripped my hand tighter and my stomach sank.
“I didn’t know Boone,” I whispered. There was nothing I could say. “I’m so sorry I put you through that. Boone, you are worth it. We are worth it. I wouldn’t have let you back in if I didn’t think so.” He shifted and looked at me.
“Well, what about in the room?” He furrowed his brows and stared at me.
“It scared me Boone, this is all feeling too easy. You should hate me for what I did, but you don’t. I hate myself for what I did to us.” Tears rolled down my face, and he pulled me to him and we sat together in silence, absorbing what we’d both confessed to one another.
“I made a few calls and one of the other doctors is going to take on your appointments. Don’t worry, I will still keep up on everything, but I don’t want a conflict of interest.” Turning to look at him, my heart exploded with a new love for this man. “I want to be your wife, not your doctor worried about every file that lands on my desk. I want to see you, Boone, not your patient number. Leaving you will always be my biggest regret. Can you ever forgive me?”
“Let’s go home. Can you leave?” He asked. I had so much work to do, but I couldn’t tell him that. He had opened up and been vulnerable, which I knew was hard for him to do.
“You read my mind. Let’s go.” Quickly, I packed up my stuff and left for the day.
Arriving home, we waked in and reached for Boone’s hand and pulled him to me. “Make love to me Boone.” I looked into his eyes and watched them fill with unbridled lust. That look was for me. I didn’t have to ask twice. Boone took my jacket off and lifted my dress.
“Go to the stairs.” He said hint my ear as he swirled his fingers over my mound. I did as he asked. One of my favourite things was to let him be the boss where our sex life was concerned, so when he placed his hand in the middle of my back and bent me forward, I followed. “Ass up, Virginia.” Placing my hands on the stairs, I braced myself. “Good girl. Should we see if you’re ready for me?” He asked as he shoved his fingers inside me, before pulling them out and caressing my clit. “More than ready, I would say.” He teased my entrance, rubbing the tip of his cock along my slit shaft without entering me.
“Please, Boone.” I begged, growing closer to an orgasm since he hadn’t let up on my clit. This man knew how to drive me crazy. He knew my body and everything I liked, and how to get me to the end goal first. I cried out with pleasure as Boone thrust into me. I had let him back in. I had wanted him for so long and now he was back. Not just back, but making passionate love to me. Neither of us worried about what was happening outside these walls. It was just him and I. Moaning before I whispered, “more.” I didn’t have to wait Boone thrust into me. My body was vibrating, and I didn’t think my arms would hold me up, but as I met each thrust I arched my back, and gave into a soul-shattering orgasm that Mae everything but this moment obsolete. Boone grabbed my hips and slammed into me as he groaned, releasing into me.
Laying in bed together, Boone drew circles on my shoulder. “Come home with me for Christmas. Mom will love to have you back.” My entire being was yelling, no. I wasn’t sure I was ready to be public yet. “I will tell her you were going to be alone and nobody should be alone at Christmas. It will be fine.” I couldn’t believe I was nodding.
CHAPTER24
