Try - The Complete Romance Series by Nella Tyler

Author:Nella Tyler [Tyler, Nella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-07T05:00:00+00:00

PART 3

Chapter One - Mackenzie

“Got any Christmas plans, Mack?” I looked up from the file in front of me on the computer; Charlotte, one of the other therapists, had stopped at my desk on her way to the therapy area.

“Just going to be with my family, I think,” I said with a shrug. I couldn’t tell her the little hope that I harbored, even if most of the people in the office were now aware of the fact that I was dating Patrick.

“You’re not going to hang with that tasty guy and his son?” Charlotte clucked her tongue against her teeth, shaking her head. “No better way to spend the holidays than an early wake-up by a kid, followed by an afternoon of making love while the tyke plays with the new toys.” I laughed.

“I’ll get the early wake-up either way,” I told her. “I’ve got nieces and nephews.”

“Not the same,” Charlotte said, shaking her head. “Not the same at all. But do what you will with your life, girl.” She went on her way, back to the therapy area to clean up after her previous patient’s session.

I went back to working on my files, waiting for my next patient to arrive. I had reordered my schedule a little bit; I’d come in about thirty minutes early, before the clinic opened, so that I’d be able to leave thirty minutes early at the end of the day. Patrick had hinted that our date was going to be somewhere relatively fancy that night, and I wanted the extra time to prepare.

There was only a week and a half before Christmas, and I’d gotten about half of my shopping done; I was still going back and forth in my mind on the topic of whether I should get Patrick something. Sometimes I thought that a little token gift wouldn’t be a bad idea—something to show that we were dating, that I had faith in the relationship, but not something huge and expensive. But then I always stopped short of actually thinking of anything in particular, because I thought that we’d only been dating a couple of weeks—not even a full month. If I bought him a gift, he might think I was taking things more seriously than he was comfortable with. This is the real reason you shouldn’t date patients’ parents, Mack: you don’t have the milestone of meeting their kid to show you how serious things are.

I had started debating it in my head again, going back and forth on the issue of whether a small gift would really be all that much of an indication that I thought things were serious, when I heard the buzz of my phone vibrating in my desk drawer. I opened the drawer and took my phone out; flashing on the screen was Patrick’s name and number. “Hey!” I said, keeping my voice as quiet as I could in spite of the excitement that welled up at me just at the thought of him calling. “I was just thinking about you.

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