The Heart Remembers: a friends to lovers romance (Heart Collection) by L.B. Dunbar

Author:L.B. Dunbar [Dunbar, L.B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: L.B. Dunbar Writes Ltd.
Published: 2021-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

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The next morning, I catch Katie before she goes for a run. Her hesitation gives me pause, but I’m determined to spend more time with her. I put AJ in the stroller and then second-guess myself.

“I don’t want to slow you down.” My eyes drift to the stroller as we reach the end of the driveway.

“You won’t.” She’s quiet, and I’d like to attribute it to the morning. Some people are just foggy, but it feels like more than that.

As we start our jog, I can’t find words, so I just appreciate the quiet and listen to the roll of AJ’s stroller over the pavement. Katie keeps pace with me although she could probably run a lot faster.

“What exactly do you do in Florida?” she finally asks me.

“I’ve already told you I work in IT. It’s nothing special. I collect data, analyze it, and report back to the boss.” It’s a little more complicated than that, but the long version would sound just as dull.

“Do you enjoy your job?”

“It’s a job. I think that’s clarified in the word job.”

“What would you do instead? If you could do something different, what would you like it to be?”

The question surprises me as it’s not something I’ve thought too much about. I like my job well enough, but I meant what I said, it’s a job. It pays my bills, barely. I hate to admit I’m more qualified than what I’m doing. I have to take into consideration that I need the flexibility offered in my position because of daycare. I’d love to find another job, but I can’t give up the benefits of what I have where I work.

“I’d love to do something more meaningful, I guess. It isn’t that an analyst isn’t important, it’s just not . . . fulfilling.” I pause a second. “I don’t know how to explain it,” I mutter when I find I don’t know how to tell her that I miss the thrill of working for the military. Processes felt more relevant, more in demand, more necessary. Lives depended on what we learned and how we applied it. It’s a little different than analyzing purchase patterns or collecting email addresses.

“I get that. It’s why I love physical therapy. I feel like I’m really making a difference in someone’s life.”

She’s so incredible. “Why did you go into physical therapy in the first place?”

“I thought I’d be a speech pathologist. I wanted to work with children who had speech impediments like I did as a child, but then I just switched. I took a PT pre-rec in kinetic energy, and I was just hooked on how the body moves. We’re amazing machines.”

My eyes drift to her keeping pace next to me, and I want to tell her how her body is an amazing machine. She has it all—firm abs, sweet breasts, long legs—but it’s more than her body that makes her perfect. I like how she thinks, how she loves her family, and how she’s accepting of others.

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