Craving Cooper: A Small Town Romance (Hart's Creek Stories Book 7) by Suzie Peters

Author:Suzie Peters [Peters, Suzie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GWL Publishing
Published: 2024-07-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Mallory

This morning was horrible.

I can’t deny it.

I’d spent yesterday moping around the apartment upstairs, wondering how I was going to face Cooper. I didn’t even go grocery shopping. There seemed to be enough food in the refrigerator, and I didn’t feel like eating, anyway. I was more concerned with what I was going to say to Cooper the next time I saw him. How should I behave? What should I do?

He’d left me feeling so confused.

I wanted to be angry. I was angry. But there was a part of me that felt he wasn’t as much to blame for what had happened as I’d thought he had been. Not quite. Although there were still holes in his story… still things I didn’t understand. Like why he’d invited me to the festival in the first place, why it had felt like we’d been part of a game, and how it was possible to be so angry, and still ache for him at the same time.

He came down late, and even though I didn’t have very much to do, I made it look as though I did, and kept my eyes focused on my computer screen. As far as I was concerned, he was the one who’d screwed up, so he could make the first move, even if he’d already told me he wasn’t a ‘first move’ kind of guy. I wanted to be the exception. No. I needed to be the exception.

It seems Cooper wasn’t about making exceptions, though, because although he waited for a while, he didn’t say a word, and just took his first patient into the surgery. It felt awful, not even talking to him, but I couldn’t think what to say… and it seemed he couldn’t either.

Throughout the morning, he kept coming out, but everything he said to me was about work. How did he expect me to respond to that? What did he think I was going to do? Turn the conversation around to what had happened at the weekend, all by myself?

Why would I? Why should I?

So there wouldn’t be such a terrible atmosphere between us?

Because there was. Even Greta noticed it. She asked if I was okay, and I couldn’t lie and tell her everything was fine, when it wasn’t. So, I told her the truth… that Saturday hadn’t gone as well as I’d hoped.

That wasn’t a lie, was it?

I’d hoped my afternoon at the festival with Cooper might have led to drinks, or even dinner. If he’d asked me back to his place afterwards, I wouldn’t have said ‘no’. But I didn’t even get the chance.

And by lunchtime, I realized I still wanted that chance… more than anything.

I was stunned when he stopped me from leaving the building and asked me to step into his surgery. The last thing I expected when we got there was for him to ask if we could try again.

And yes, I get that what I should have done at that point was to run across the room and throw myself at him.

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