Showing off the Goods by Weston Parker

Author:Weston Parker [Parker, Weston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BrixBaxter Publishing
Published: 2021-04-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 22

COLETTE

Thank God I don’t have any patients scheduled for the first half of the day. I was still feeling like hell warmed up by the time I slid in behind my desk.

I doubted I’d have been able to do any good for anyone in the state I was in. Instead of my usual roster of patients, I had online training seminars booked all morning.

After fixing myself an extra-strong cup of coffee from the station behind my desk, I logged in and joined the waiting room for the first seminar. I was a firm believer in keeping my skills and knowledge updated, but it wasn’t as easy to stay focused as it usually was.

My first seminar was on the updated techniques in the treatment of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. I’d actually been looking forward to it, but now I found my mind drifting to Paxton every other minute.

While I’d freaked out after I’d woken up at his place, I’d had a couple of hours to think everything through after. Drinking too much had obviously been a mistake. There really was no two ways about it, but I’d also thoroughly enjoyed myself with him last night. It was a fact I couldn’t get around.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I couldn’t remember the last time I’d had that much fun. Sure, the alcohol had played a definite role in that, but so had Paxton.

Waking up and seeing him preparing a full breakfast for us had unnerved me. I was woman enough to admit that it hadn’t even just unnerved me; it had flat-out scared me. I didn’t know what he thought he was playing at, or if he was trying to make up for the way he had left by being extra sweet to me now.

If he thought some eggs and coffee were enough to atone for abandoning me when I needed him most, then he had another thing coming. But then I thought back to what he’d said that first night when we’d gotten together to work on the wedding stuff at my house. He’d made a point of telling me he’d been just a boy when we’d been together and how he’d grown up since.

Logically, I could understand that. We’d both been kids. At nineteen, we’d felt like we’d had it all figured out and that we were legit grown-ups after having graduated, but I knew better now.

While we’d known better at nineteen than at say, fifteen, we hadn’t had any real clue about the world. If someone had told me that back then, I’d have laughed them out of the room, but that didn’t make it any less true.

Sure, some kids at nineteen had seen things that would still make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, but in general? A teenager was a teenager was a teenager. They thought they knew everything, but the benefit of hindsight was that I knew a lot now that I hadn’t known then. Enough to know that we hadn’t been nearly as mature as we’d thought we were.

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