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And it was a day I wasn’t at work so that was another plus. Don’t get me wrong I loved my job, but it was getting harder for a couple of reasons, and the last few days had been the worst.
After being off for a week, I may have felt better than I had, but I was still tired. Then, on top of that, Dr. Lawson had upped his game on persistence, hounding me at every turn about going out with him. It had been bad enough before but was now approaching a whole new level.
One that had made me extremely uncomfortable.
I should have probably told someone about it, but I guess I kept hoping he’d take the hint and would just go away. Instead, it seemed like he was lurking around every corner just to chat me up—or try and feel me up—laying his hands on me as if he had the right. He creeped me out. I just wanted it to stop so I could work in peace and not have problems every time I was on shift with him.
I didn’t have the time or energy to think more about it as I had to finish getting ready to go. Gyth was picking me up soon and although I didn’t need to dress nice for the doctor, I had wanted to look decent for the man taking up residence in my thoughts more often than not lately.
He was either a damn thorn in my side with his overbearing behavior or the light in my tunnel of darkness.
But there was something about him that pulled me in deeper each and every time I was in his presence.
Just then, the doorbell went off, making me jump a little. The nerves of the day were getting to me and I had also been playing things over in my mind and had got behind on finishing up getting ready to go. The girls weren’t home, so I needed to answer the door.
Wrapping a robe around me quickly, I headed out of my bedroom and toward the door. Not bothering to see who it was, I pulled it open and there Gyth stood looking hot as usual. Running my hands down the soft fabric covering me, I couldn’t help but fidget under the weight of his stare.
“Is that what you're wearing to the doctor, Sunshine?” he asked, eyebrows raised, and a gleam of curiosity in his eyes.
“Real funny, I’m running late. Come in, and let me finish getting ready,” I stammered.
His laser-like vision, as if trying to see right through my robe, made my body come to life and my girly parts tingle. His chuckle that had said, ‘I know my effect on you,’ made it worse. So, I walked away without another word.
Okay, maybe ran was more like it.
“Is this a date?”
I blurted out the question and wanted to take it back the second it left my lips. I’d obviously forgotten the part where I’d told myself I wasn’t going to act eager and lay those precious cards of mine all on the table the moment I realized Gyth was taking me to Voodoo Doughnuts—probably Alley’s doing—a little mushy inside.
Seriously, it was a donut with bacon involved and we already had established bacon was the bomb. The simple fact he wanted to take me somewhere I loved, even if someone else told him just how to get to me, made a hard day a whole lot better.
“Sunshine, when I take you on a date you will know it, and that day is just around the corner. Today”—he motioned to himself and then to me sitting at the bench with our donuts and the flavored tea he also had gotten me on the way here—“this is because you deserve a treat.”
It was a very nice treat too, one that I was sure would have to be limited after I got my test results back come Monday when I went back in for my follow-up appointment. But for now, I was going to enjoy Gyth spoiling me with some of my tasty favorites.
Not sure what to say about the date thing, I decided to let his comment go and just thank him for today. He was my rock once again and that meant a lot.
Come to think of it, Gyth was built likeThe Rock, Dwayne Johnson.I sighed just a little because that man was freaking hot—just like Gyth. They were both hard to miss, their bodies built like steel, something to worship, and one a woman would never get tired of going to bed with and waking up to every morning.
But Gyth was the only one I wanted in my bed, and that terrified me, as well as, made my body tingle at the possibility.
Head out of the clouds, Summer, you are supposed to be thanking the man sitting in front of you, not picturing him in compromising positions.
Shaking my head to clear it, I focused back on Gyth. I’d dropped my eyes to the table for a moment while thinking.
“Thank you for going with me today, and also for bringing me here. So much is probably going to change soon, and I suspect I won’t get to have all my guilty pleasures whenever I want to before long.”
The idea of change, especially for the reason it was likely coming, made me nervous. Nobody wanted to be sick, not with a disease that was never going away. I’d been dealing with my seizures since I was young, and now I’d probably be handling even more. But I wasn’t alone in the world, so many people battled every day from seizures, Lupus, and many other diseases.
I was lucky to have amazing friends and my brother by my side. My parents, well they wouldn’t be there for me. They never really had been there emotionally for me growing up when I needed it. I’m sure they’d sweep it under the carpet and do what they always did.
Try to hide my issues and marry me off to some rich man to mold me into the woman they thought their daughter should be.
“Hey, where’d you go just now?” Gyth asked, looking concerned.
“Crap, sorry I keep letting my head get the best of me. I was just thinking if the tests they have run, along with my symptoms point in the direction of Lupus, what my parents will say. Lord knows, they already thought something was wrong with me before this.”
I’d surprised myself that I had just told Gyth something that personal about my family. Usually, I didn’t bring them up at all. Maybe to my brother, or the girls, but I never shared with anyone else how I felt when it came to them.
