her. I patiently demonstrated and explained to her how they worked, and before anyone knew it, she was doing them herself.
I didn’t interrupt her to point that out, though. She was still on track with her treatment plan, and judging by how well she was doing on some of these new activities, she was even a little bit ahead.
“You fixed the problem,” Hunter mumbled to me when he came to join us. “Asshole. I don’t know how you always do that.”
I wiggled my fingers at him. “Magic.”
April came up to me after the end of the session, a relieved smile on her face. “You’re kind of becoming our knight in shining armor, do you know that?”
I pretended to fan my face. “Aww shucks.”
She gave me a light punch in the arm, and it was good to see her laughing again. “Even knights have to eat, though. Can I cook you dinner again sometime?”
“I’m free on Wednesday.”
“Perfect.” Hooking one finger into the gap between two buttons on my shirt, she yanked me closer and brushed a lightning fast kiss to the bottom of my jaw while Hunter was with Adi. “I’ll see you on Wednesday.”
Chapter 26
APRIL
“Since when do you like jazz?” Katie asked as we danced around my kitchen while making dinner.
I hadn’t been relegated to company-keeper this evening, but I was actually quite enjoying cooking with my sister for a change. She lifted her arms up in the air, tongs and all, and moved her hips to the sultry rhythm.
“I’ve rediscovered it recently.” My mind flashed on a number performed by the servers while we’d been having dinner with Chris. “It’s the perfect music to cook to, don’t you think?”
“I like cooking to French, but this isn’t bad.” She smiled and kept swaying her body but brought her arms down to turn the chicken in the pan. “How did you rediscover it? Radio?”
“No.” I rolled my lips into my mouth and released them with a soft pop. “Chris took us to a restaurant where they performed all kinds of music, but the jazz with dinner stuck with me.”
“Chris again, huh?” She pursed her lips, stopped dancing, and shot me a worried glance. “That doctor seems to have wormed his way into your lives quite thoroughly.”
I exhaled deeply with a shake of my head, abandoning my dance to amble over to the fridge. “He hasn’t wormed his way into our lives. We want him with us.”
Her brows climbed up on her forehead. “You do? Since when?”
“Since I’ve gotten to know him and he’s a really nice guy.” I began piling ingredients for a salad into my arms. “It’s nothing serious. You still don’t have to worry about my Pretty Woman story.”
“That’s not what I’m worried about.” She turned the last piece of chicken and leaned back against the counter, folding her arms as she gave a pointed look to the living room where Adi was doing her homework. “I’m worried about you, but I’m also worried about Adi. What if she gets attached to this guy? It’s tough bringing someone new into her life as it is, but more especially so when you don’t even know where things are going with him.”
“Does anyone really know where things are going in their relationships when it’s still new? No. It’s always going to be a leap of faith.”
“Sure, but that’s why people usually get to know the person and try to gauge what the prospects for the future are before they get their kids involved.”
I set the fresh ingredients down and looked at her just so she could see me rolling my eyes. “There’s no rule that says it has to work that way. Plus, Adi already knew Chris the first time we went out. I needed to know that he knew I wasn’t just looking for a hookup.”
“As far as I knew, you weren’t looking for anything,” she said, sighing before she bent over to check on the veggies in the oven.
“I wasn’t looking for anything.” I shredded the lettuce into a bowl I’d gotten out earlier, but my gaze stayed on my sister. “There’s nothing wrong with what we’re doing, Katie. I wasn’t planning on dating again, and I didn’t want to, but things change.”
“Evidently.” Twisting her ponytail around itself to make a bun, she snapped an elastic off her wrist to fasten it and then pulled up a stool to sit on. “I’m not saying you’re doing anything wrong. All I’m saying is that you have to make sure this