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Maybe that concussion did something.
“Morning. Did you get much sleep in the chair?” I ask him.
“It was fine once I got used to the snoring.”
My mouth drops a little. “You woke yourself up with your own snoring?”
“No, silly, yours woke me up,” he says with the devilish look back on his face, mischievous eyes matching it.
I sit up in the bed to smack him, but as I reach forward, the movement pulls on my sore ribs, and I wince. Trent reaches forward to grab my shoulders and help me sit up.
“Thanks.”
His face is only inches away.
I can’t help but look at those lips.
Lips I want to kiss again.
He shifts and stands fully off the bed, one arm around my back to hold me upright. His other hand works to rearrange the pillows until I’m supported again.
“There. That should help. Sorry.” He pats at the pillow. “I didn’t mean to make you reach and hurt more.”
The furrow is back on his forehead again. He looks worried; the concern creeping back into the space between us.
I reach up and touch his arm.
“It’s okay. I just forget I can’t move like I want to sometimes. This is still all a little new, right?”
So is him taking care of me.
But it feels good. Better than it should.
Trent’s eyes bore into me. I take in the emotions shining from them. Determination. Sorrow. And something more tender.
He cares.
Or is it just guilt?
As if he can read my mind, he says, “I’m truly sorry for all this. It’s my fault. If I would have just left you in your rental house, if I would have just talked to Ivy in the first place and left you alone, none of this would have happened.”
“But it did, and we can’t take it back.”
“What if I want to?” he says, sitting back on the edge of the bed. He reaches out and touches my cheek with the slightest of pressure. “What if we start a different path?”
I can feel it.
The swirl of desire building between us.
Intensifying when we touch.
“You never know until you take that first step,” I whisper.
Trent reaches forward, arching toward me.
I can feel his warmth.
Feel his breath as his lips close the distance to mine yet again.
