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“Got everything figured out?” he asks, his deep voice rumbling throughout the small office.
“Well, not really. We still need to talk,” Doctor Hamilton announces.
Wells chuckles, almost as if he’s just appeasing his mother. His mother. I still cannot… and then reality hits me. It slams through me. It causes my entire body to jerk so violently that I jump to my feet.
I can feel their eyes on me, and I know I won’t make it past Wells to run out of this room. I can feel the walls closing in on me. They seem to actually move, and I rush over to the window and slam my hands down on the glass.
I’m disgusted. Embarrassed, and then I feel something slither up my spine. I turn my head when a horrifying realization slams into me. Not only does Doctor Hamilton know exactly every single disgusting detail of my sex life with Wells, but he also knows she is my doctor.
I didn’t tell him where I was going. He brought me here. I didn’t tell him to call her. He already knew. He didn’t just watch me. It wasn’t a happenstance moment of him seeing me at a club and following me.
It was so much more than that.
He targeted me.
He stalked me.
Like, for real.
I open my mouth to scream, cry, do whatever I need to do to get out of this room, but then I remember that it’s well after five. This is one of those buildings that basically shut down after hours, much like my own.
“You stalked me. You targeted me. Why?” I whisper.
Wells’s lips curve up into a nonchalant grin. “It’s not as salacious as that. I saw you from afar. I thought you were gorgeous. I found you.”
I’m not sure if I believe his simple explanation. There must be more to this. My stomach squeezes, and my heart races, and I can’t just ignore my body’s response to this man. To this situation. To the whole thing.
“Anything else, Mom?”
Doctor Hamilton’s gaze flicks from Wells to me, then back to Wells. “Family dinner tomorrow night,” she snaps as her response.
Wells chuckles. “Sounds good,” he murmurs before he shifts his attention from her to me. “Let’s go home, cupcake. You had quite a day.”
As much as I want to tell him to go away, I don’t think I can. I need more answers, clarification, information, everything and anything. The only way I’m going to get that is if I go with him.
So, against my better judgment, that’s what I do.
WELLS
My mother is pissed.She probably knows that I looked up Parker’s files in her office. She’s not stupid, and she knows it’s something I would do without feeling the least bit guilty for it. And I don’t. Not when it comes to Parker. Nothing about what I do with her, to her, or anything that concerns her makes me feel any kind of guilty.
Dinner tomorrow? When my mother saidfamily, she meant me, my dad, her, and my brothers. She did not include Parker in that, and as much as I want to bring her with me, I know it would be a shit show.
But after tomorrow’s dinner, Parker will always be at my side. This is a new beginning to a life that I didn’t expect, but I’m going to go in wholly. She is mine. There is no her and me anymore. We are no longer individuals.
She is now part of me.
Instead of driving straight back to her condo, I decide it’s time she sees my penthouse. It’s only a few blocks from her place, and I know she’ll love it. She has a high-class, simplistic style, and everything in my condo is sleek, expensive, and sexy.
“Where are we going?” she asks on a whisper.
I can tell she’s both scared and nervous. I almost tell her not to worry about it, but I decide to tell her. She’s had a stressful day. I can’t imagine discovering all the things she did today, plus the pure physical exhaustion the panic attack brought on, then therapy with my mother. Her portion lasted well over an hour.
As much as I want to be a hard-ass, I know this isn’t the moment. Tomorrow, I’ll be back to my normal self. Tonight, I need to take a little more care with her. “We’re going to my place tonight,” I offer.
“I don’t have any of my things,” she exhales. “I have to work tomorrow.”
I hum. “Why don’t you take tomorrow off? I feel like you had a day. Maybe you and Allison can relax?”
