The Love We Keep by Toni Blake

Author:Toni Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2019-11-20T21:22:10+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

“DAMN IT, WOMAN, are you trying to kill me?”

Some things never changed, and Zack’s grousing during physical therapy was one of them. But Suzanne had every intention of continuing to push him. She replied in her normal, calm tone—a habit from her nursing days that had come back recently, especially after learning that Zack’s bark was worse than his bite. “You know this is for your own good, and I’ve told you dozens of times—stimulating the muscles can only help.”

“If you want to stimulate my muscles, Suzie Q,” he said, narrowing his gaze on her, “I can think of ways to do it that are a hell of a lot more fun.”

A familiar heat ascended her cheeks, but now she just laughed. She never would have dreamed the key to relaxing the tensions between them would be sex—but unlikely things happened all the time, and the unlikely truth was that since this morning, even when he was grumpy, the fact that they were suddenly into each other had beamed a light into their forced cohabitation.

She hadn’t answered Dahlia’s text—simply because she had no idea what to say. Zack’s joking avoidance on the phone had certainly left no doubt as to what had happened, but she didn’t know how to discuss it because she didn’t know what it meant. Was it fun and games? Sexual healing? The start of a relationship? She had no idea.

And she’d resolved to just not think about it. Even if she already knew that, for her, it was more than fun and games. But she’d taken that leap knowingly, albeit without a net.

What she didn’t know was where Zack stood. But if she judged from his past with Meg, where he didn’t stand was in the relationship zone. Which meant it was one of the other two options—both equating to casual and convenient and good for right now. So she’d just have to go with the flow because there was no other reasonable, sensible choice. If you wanted sensible, maybe you should have thought twice before just...surrendering yourself to him.

And stop being ridiculous. It was more than surrender; you climbed on top of the man.

But...water under the bridge and all that. Now all she could do was move forward—with physical therapy, a grouchy patient, and, apparently, more sex. Which she would not turn down. Because last night had been amazing. And there was that unwitting attachment thing she already suffered from. So, yep, more sex sounded...downright heavenly. Sexual healing could work both ways. And she’d been trying to heal from losing Cal for a very long time.

Completing Zack’s ankle rotations with him lying on his back, she said, “Let’s do the new one—where we bend our foot inward ’til our big toe touches the bed, then the other way until our little toe touches.”

As she bent over, guiding his left, uninjured leg to remind him of the motions, he said, “First of all, all the feet and toes involved here are mine. Second, it’s a waste of time to do this one on my good leg.

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