All He Needs – Ace & Stephanie (Crossroads #10) by Melanie Shawn

Author:Melanie Shawn [Shawn, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
Google: FaKIDQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B01N1HSHLF
Publisher: Red Hot Reads Publishing
Published: 2016-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“Are you sure you don’t want any more?” Stephanie asked as she cleared the empty bowl that had been filled with soup just moments ago.

“I can’t eat another bite.” Ace smiled up at her causing her heart to pitter-patter. “Thank you, again. You don’t have to do all this.”

“You don’t have to keep saying that. I want to,” she repeated for the dozenth time before taking the dish to the kitchen to rinse it out, shutting the door softly behind her so he could get some more rest.

Ace had been discharged from the hospital two days ago and Stephanie had taken him home. To her home. Dr. Gresham had consented to release him, but only if he wasn’t alone for the following seventy-two hours. She’d been more than happy to agree to that arrangement and he’d had no problem crashing at her place.

And that’s exactly what he’d done. He’d crashed. After sleeping a good fourteen hours the night that he stayed in the hospital, he’d come home and fallen asleep for another eight. Then after waking up to eat, go to the bathroom and take his medication, he clocked another ten hours of solid sleep. And that was basically how the schedule had remained. About every eight to ten hours he’d wake up, use the restroom, eat and fall right back to sleep. Oh and thank her and tell her that she didn’t need to do all of this, like it was some kind of hardship.

It wasn’t.

The past couple of days she’d slept more than she had in…she couldn’t remember how long. She’d also read a book and caught up on some shows on Netflix. It had been like a mini-staycation with Ace.

She’d watched him sleep, which she’d assured herself wasn’t stalker behavior since she was supposed to be watching him. She’d memorized every line on his face that wasn’t covered by his newly acquired beard. The facial hair looked good on him, it somehow managed to make him look even manlier, which she would’ve thought was an impossible feat. She’d also gotten pretty dang good at predicting when he might wake up. His breathing pattern would change and his expression would tighten. He usually started showing signs about thirty minutes before he’d actually wake up, so she’d use that time to make him food and have it ready for him.

She tried not to think about what had happened to him, it scared her too much. She hated that he’d been hurt. She hated that there was a bullet hole in him. She hated thinking about what would’ve happened if he’d been hit even a centimeter lower in his liver or a centimeter higher and the bullet had pierced his lung. She never wanted to think about a world without Ace in it.

A loud knock sounded and the bowl she was washing slipped from her hand and crashed into the sink, thankfully it didn’t break. She grabbed a towel and hurried to the door, doing her best to reach it before another knock sounded.

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