Claiming Her_A Romance Collection by R. R. Banks

Author:R. R. Banks [Banks, R. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

The next night I rushed around my kitchen making dinner, occasionally zipping out to check the living room yet again and make sure that it looked perfect. My nerves spiked when I heard the doorbell and I scolded myself for being so ridiculous. He was just coming over for dinner. This was, by far, the least intimate thing that we had ever done together. It's not like I didn't know him or had never been in the same space with him. Yet I was nervous. I opened the door and Garrett stood there with flowers in his hand. I felt myself blush as I reached for them.

"Thank you," I said.

As I took them I realized that there were two bunches. I looked at him strangely and Garrett looked as though he just remembered something.

"Oh, yes. This one isn't for you," he said.

He took a group of tea roses from my hand and carried them over to the couch where the cats were curled together in a single small dog bed, completely ignoring the fact that there was another one inches away. He propped the flowers next to the bed and scratched The Bishop on his head.

"They're for him," he said.

"For him?"

"He went through a lot, too," he said. "The least I can do is bring him flowers during his recovery. Isn't that what people do?"

I thought of the carnations that I’d had delivered to Garrett's hospital room and smiled. It was such an unexpected gesture and one that instantly made me fall a little harder.

Garrett spent the next three hours at my house and by the time we both knew he should be heading home, I felt like we knew each other completely differently. We had laughed our way through dinner and curled into each other to watch a movie. As the credits rolled, I realized that I had no idea what happened in the movie because I had spent the entire time just enjoying having his arm around me and my head on his chest and listening to his heartbeat. I had never been so thankful to hear a heartbeat. I had been terrified every moment that he was in the hospital. Even when the doctors told me that he was doing better, even when he opened his eyes, even when Jason told me that he had gotten out of bed and was walking up and down the hallways. I was so afraid that I was going to lose him.

I walked with him to the front door and he turned and looked into my face. His eyes burned into mine then he reached forward to wrap his arm around my waist. He ducked his head down and pressed his lips to mine. It was just a kiss, but it seared into me, reaching a part of me that none of our other kisses had. Our lips parted, and he leaned forward to rest his forehead against mine.

"Goodnight," he murmured.

He walked out of the house, leaving me breathless. Over the next few weeks, we fell into a comfortable pattern together.

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