Total pages in book: 61
Estimated words: 56603 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 283(@200wpm)___ 226(@250wpm)___ 189(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 56603 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 283(@200wpm)___ 226(@250wpm)___ 189(@300wpm)
Although we haven't known each other long, his offer of help didn't surprise me. I’d already learned what a nice guy he was. At least out of bed. Once he had me under him, he had that whole dirty-talking, bossy side that really turned me on.
He’d taken such great care of me on Saturday and Sunday…and not just by giving me a mind-blowing orgasm. In addition to letting me use his washer and dryer, he’d also chauffeured me around town to finish a couple of errands, replaced my bandage, and fed me lunch and dinner. It’d been such a long time since anyone had looked after me like that. “Unless you can figure out a way to add a few extra hours into each day, there's not much you can do to help.”
“For you, I’d give it my best shot, sweetheart.” He signaled for the waiter, who had just taken our drink order but hadn't brought them to us yet. Tossing some cash onto the table, he stood and reached for my hand. “Let's take this date back to my place, where you can at least get comfortable while we eat.”
I slid my palm against his as I stood. “That sounds like a great idea to me.”
“How do you feel about pizza?” he asked as we walked to his truck.
I wrinkled my nose, and I let him think that was my reaction to his suggestion until I couldn't keep a straight face anymore and burst into laughter. “I love pizza. It's one of my favorite foods. Just so long as you get it with anchovies and pineapple.”
He took my request in stride. “Pineapple and anchovies for you, meat lovers for me.”
“Eww! Please, no! I'm just kidding.” I shuddered at the thought.
He squeezed my hand. “Beauty, brains, kindness, and jokes. You really do have it all.”
Blushing a little, I added, “And I even like a good meat lovers, too.”
“So what you’re telling me is you can handle a lot of meat?” He chuckled as he helped me into the car.
I immediately thought of the hard-on he pretty much always sported when we were together and blushed. “I sure can.”
An hour later, I had proven my love for pizza by polishing off three pieces to Tyler's five as we sat side by side at his kitchen counter. “I really appreciate how cool you were about changing our plans.”
“Any time you want to just hang out, you won't hear any complaints from me. I have exactly what I want. Time with you. It doesn't matter where we are or what we're doing.” He brushed a kiss against my cheek before getting up to toss our paper plates into the trash and put away the last two pieces of pizza.
Grabbing a blanket to toss over our laps, we got comfortable on his big leather couch. “Do you want to study while I watch a game or something?” he asked.
“No.” I shook my head. “My brain is too fried. Nothing would sink in anyway.”
“Rough day?”
“Yeah, I had a rough shift at the hospital while I was doing my clinicals.” I glanced out his window to the moonlight streaming through. “The charge nurse said something about how there's a full moon this week, and things tend to get crazy around this time.”
He nodded. “I believe that. My cousin, Vi, has told me some hard to believe stories from the emergency room.”
“Your cousin works at the hospital?” I tried to think of anyone I’d met with the same last name as Tyler, but I drew a blank.
“Yeah, Vi is a doctor in the emergency room, which has come in handy more times than I care to admit.”
Tilting my head back to smile up at him, I urged, “C’mon, tell me the best one.”
I was expecting him to tell me an embarrassing story about when he needed medical help, so I was surprised when he answered, “When Rand saved Jaelyn during the fire in your building, he didn’t want to lose track of her. He’d been trying to figure out who she was for days after seeing her at a softball game. But he was with a team out at a fire, so he asked me to take her to the hospital even though I probably could’ve treated and released her on-site.”
Jaelyn had told me about how they met. “Yeah, she mentioned that he overreacted and made her go to the hospital.”
“That’s not all,” he muttered.
I was dying to find out how Tyler’s cousin factored into the story. “You can’t just leave me hanging like this!”
“I knew Rand wanted to be the one to pick Jaelyn up from the hospital, so I asked Vi to stall until he got there,” he admitted.
“Oh, my gosh! Jaelyn complained about how long she was there,” I laughed. “I don’t think she knows it was on purpose.”