other area of his life and I wouldn’t call him a pussy-whipped puppy dog to his face. But when he was with Luna, he was the sweetest, gentlest person imaginable and he didn’t give two fucks about who knew it.
The thought that I might be at the start of my own series of small events was downright terrifying. Cyrus had once told me that it had almost been like he’d had no choice in falling in love with Luna. She swept him right off his feet, and he hadn’t even noticed it until it was too late.
Their story was the stuff romance novels were made of. Real life didn’t work like that. On the other hand, I now knew what to watch out for going in.
Giving Chris a chance didn’t mean it had to end the same way for us as it had for them. I didn’t live in a romance novel like Luna did. Real life had a way of jerking me back to reality as soon as my head hit the clouds.
So I’d be fine. The universe would keep my feet firmly planted on the ground. No sweeping would be happening here.
“You know what?” I said. “I’ll think about it. Thanks for talking me off the ledge.”
“Any time.” I heard the smile in her voice. “Have sweet dreams about all that anatomy he might know.”
“I will.” I snorted as I tried to hold back my laughter. “But you say Cyrus hasn’t corrupted you. Keep telling yourself that, girl. You’re just as dirty as he is now. Tell him I said congratulations.”
Chapter 15
CHRIS
“That’s it for us for the day,” Hunter said as the telltale ding of the tablet shutting off sounded. “No more appointments make Hunter a free boy. Mind if I take off early? I have to do some things for our new business.”
I laughed and scooped a basketball off the floor, making a perfect shot into the bucket we stored them in. “Yeah, sure. Go ahead. I’ll just finish tidying up here all by myself.”
He grinned. “Great. Thanks, boss.”
“No problem. It’s my turn anyway.” I grabbed the last ball and made another shot while Hunter walked to the door.
“I’ll see you tomorrow,” he said and left before I could reply.
Wonder what he’s really getting up to this afternoon. Considering that we’d just recently concluded that we weren’t ready to leave the hospital just yet, I doubted he was really going to do something with opening our private practice.
It didn’t really matter what he was really going to do, though. On the odd occasion when our appointments ended early, we always left once the therapy room was restored to a more respectable state.
Our sessions could get out of hand, especially when we had a lot of kids coming in as patients. At the moment, we had a pretty even split, but there was still equipment everywhere.
As I finished stacking the mats, there was a soft knock at the door. I sighed, hoping to everything that might be holy it wasn’t the ER calling.
“Come in,” I yelled, already mentally preparing myself for whatever emergency I would have to attend to. There go my grand and glamorous plans of catching up on my paperwork this afternoon.
I turned to find not an ER nurse standing in the doorway, but April.
She smiled and gave me a wave. “Hey. Where is everyone?”
“Home, I assume. We finished our appointments early today. Come on in.”
Fuck, why did she have to look so good even in the drab uniform the hospital made her wear? The navy dress with red accents was plain, but the material strained across her breasts and made it look like the button was hanging on by only a few threads while the hem hit her about mid-thigh.
It shouldn’t be this sexy. Unfortunately, women weren’t the only ones who often had a thing for someone in uniform.
I, for one, had had my fair share of fantasies about women in certain uniforms. This particular uniform had never made the cut before, but I’d also never paid much attention to April in it.
I had a feeling said uniform would be making an appearance in my fantasies someday very soon. Clearing my throat as I tried not to indulge in those fantasies right then, I sat down on the mats to hide the bulge I felt growing in my scrubs.
“I just wanted to come by to thank you for last night,” April said, turning to close the door behind her. “We had a lot of fun.