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“Don’t stop,” he said, his voice low and encouraging.
I made an inarticulate strangled sound.
Lachlan eased me away from the cushion, and whether I wanted to or not, he turned me on my back so I faced him. He pinned my hands on either side of my head so I couldn’t cover my face, and his knee dipped the cushions down as he straddled his body over mine. His gaze seared me with heat. “What were you imagining?”
His molten, gold scrutiny had burned away the rest of my embarrassment. I swallowed against my swollen throat. “I, ah… you.”
He slowly took in my body, down, then back up. “How so?”
Did I dare say it? “You kind of fulfill every… doctor fantasy… I’ve ever had.”
“Not yet I haven’t,” he promised softly.
Sweet honey badger. No way he’s into that.
He straightened, unhooked his leg from the couch, and stood before me with his hands in the pockets of his lab coat. “Miss Brook, if you’ll remove your tops and bottoms and wait in the bed next door, I’ll be there momentarily for your exam.”
My heart did a somersault. I stared at him incredulously. He leveled a stern look my way.Ho, shit, we’re doing this.
I sat up, still looking at him warily, expecting him to crack. He stared at me expectantly, brows raised slightly. He glanced at his watch without taking his hand out of his pocket, as if he was a very busy man and I was being an inconvenience.
I scooted off the couch, my face still flushed and hair disheveled. He watched me patiently. Heart kicking against my ribs fast, I backed away, around the couch, and then turned to walk briskly to the bedroom. He wasn’t joking. He was really going to do this.
I slid into the bedroom in his overly large socks and peeled my shirt over my head as I went. The joggers fell off easily, since they were a good bit too big anyway, and then I stepped on my socks to get them off. I’d taken away the comforter, so I slipped under the wrinkled sheet, pulling it up to my chin.
What are you doing, Laurel? I thought with tightening nerves.You’re not some sex goddess. You’ve had one guy, and he never made you orgasm once.
You’re kind of broken.
But maybe, I reasoned as I sat there, my chest rising and falling rapidly, maybe I would still enjoy it. Maybe he would. I had said I would try the “crazy” thing, right? Well, this was fucking psycho, so box ticked.
Doing the thing.
Lachlan entered the room, hands still in his pockets, and turned to close the door. He had a file in his hand just like he had the first day I’d met him, and as he crossed the room, he checked its contents. “Miss Brook?” he asked.
I couldn’t say anything. I just gawked.
He closed the file and looked up. His look could have started a forest fire. “What seems to be the problem?”
I’m way in over my head, I screeched internally. I took a deep breath. No, Laurel, come on. You can do this. You want this. You’ve wanted this for a long time. You don’t always have to be practical. Not in the world’s sexiest doctor’s bed. You got this. I let the sheet fall, revealing my breasts and waist.
Lachlan’s pupils dilated, turning his golden eyes almost black.
“I… think there’s something wrong with my heart… beat.” I amended the symptom quickly before he got the wrong idea. Or, rather, the right idea.
“Hm,” Lachlan glanced at the file, eating the distance between us slowly. “I see. How long have you had this problem?”
“Thirty hours and—” I checked the clock, “—seventeen minutes.”
He looked up, lips twitching. I could read his thoughts.Cute. He cleared his throat. “I see. Can you describe your symptoms?”
“Uhm,” I looked around, and my nipples hardened as a heater kicked on and wafted lukewarm air over me. “It keeps beating. Really hard. And I can’t breathe sometimes.”
“Sounds uncomfortable,” he said placidly.
“Yeah. But I kind of like it? Sometimes I think maybe I’m dying, and then sometimes I think maybe it’s the best feeling. I don’t know. It’s weird.”
His bottom lip ran through his teeth, and I saw him struggling to keep his composure. “Gosh. How confusing.” He sat on the edge of the bed and pulled his stethoscope off his neck. Without batting an eye, he snapped the sheets aside.
