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“Hey.” Lucas was standing by the printer near the Ramona’s front desk.
“Hey.”
His forehead crinkled up with concern. “What’s wrong?”
Was I that transparent? I tried to relax. “Nothing’s wrong. Hi, Ramona.”
“Hey, Dr. Brooke. You had a reschedule with your first appointment, but the rest are on time.”
I nodded. “Great. Thanks.”
“You could go with me to my first appointment,” Lucas suggested. “My patient is hoping to get pregnant in the next few months and might have questions about prenatal vitamins, et cetera.”
It was a reasonable request. In an effort to show I could put Friday night to the side and be one hundred percent professional, I murmured, “Happy to go.” I’d drive separately and meet him there. But once we went out to the parking lot, he had other ideas.
“The patient only lives three miles away, and since parking is tight, how about we take my vehicle? I can drop you back here afterwards.”
“Sure.” Easy, breezy, I thought until the moment I was in the enclosed car with him. My body and my head had completely different agendas. My brain said, “Relax, we’re only colleagues.” My body, however, was shouting, “He smells delicious. I need another round, please.”
“Did you have a good time in Vegas?” He turned toward me, his heated gaze doing nothing for my body’s agenda.
“Yeah. It was a lot of fun.”
His head cocked to the side. “Is everything okay?”
“Yeah, fine.” I needed to put Dr. Marshall’s entire conversation out of my mind else Lucas start to suspect I was hiding something.
He sighed, pulling out of the parking lot and weaving into traffic. “Look, I realize the other night sent a mixed message. That’s why I called you on Saturday night. Because I don’t want things to get weird between us.”
“Why would I get weird about it?”
“You’re acting kind of weird now, so I assumed—”
“You would think after our discussion on Friday you’d grasp not everything is about you.”
He opened and closed his mouth before saying, “I apologize.”
Damn. He sounded one hundred percent sincere. “My preoccupation has to do with an upcoming interview in San Francisco. It’s with the group I originally hoped to join when I finished my residency.”
“They’d be lucky to have you.”
He sounded depressingly excited about me leaving town.
