The Divine Creek Ranch Collection Volume 4 by Heather Rainier

Author:Heather Rainier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2017-11-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Later, after supper had been eaten and dishes were put away, Lily limped to her room wrapped in a towel. After dressing in her red flannel pajamas, which had indeed gotten very loose and floppy, she searched the box she’d left on the closet shelf. While looking for the envelope that held her medical information and other important paperwork, she found the box containing her old pictures. She hadn’t seen most of them in years, so pulled them out to share with Clay.

Clay was kneeling by the fireplace adding wood to the crackling blaze within. He stood when she entered the room, brushing his hands off on his jeans as he turned to her. She handed him the lab results, and he sat in the big, comfy recliner and turned on the floor lamp beside it, gesturing for her to join him. Something about the gesture compelled her as he gazed at her with some unreadable emotion in his eyes.

In the last week, the level of intimacy they shared had changed. He never put pressure on her with sexual advances, which should’ve been a relief but wasn’t. But that didn’t mean that he was content with her across the room on the couch.

He made no bones about the fact that he preferred to be close to her and seemed to particularly enjoy having her in his lap in that recliner. The thing was almost big enough for two people side by side, but she invariably wound up in his lap comfortably lounging. It was a relief that she’d lost some weight so she didn’t worry quite as much about hurting him.

She carefully joined him and settled as he looked closely at the photocopy she’d handed him. The doctor had ordered a wide range of tests, so many, in fact, that by the time the nurse had finished drawing blood, Lily had been ready to pass out. JT had thrown a royal temper tantrum when he’d found out how much the lab work had cost because they didn’t have health insurance. Thankfully, he’d forgotten about it by the time the results had come back. She’d carefully tucked the paperwork away and was grateful when he’d never asked about the test results.

“Going by the range of normal results listed for each test, all of your levels are within normal ranges, Lily.”

Lily nodded. “The doctor told me that but said I should be more careful and to look in the mirror if I needed proof that I had to make changes.” He’d always been polite to her, but Lily remembered how his insensitive words had soured her respect for the man.

Sounding shocked, Clay asked, “He said that to you?”

Lily nodded. “He was a gruff man. JT’s mother said he was ‘plainspoken.’”

“Let me guess. He was the King family doctor?” At Lily’s nod he folded the paper and handed it back to her. “That explains a lot, I guess. Numbers don’t lie, honey. And with as much weight as you’ve lost, they are probably all different now anyway.

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