Deena: A Second-Chance Short Steamy Romance (Heart Doctors Book 2) by Carly Keene

Author:Carly Keene [Keene, Carly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-19T16:00:00+00:00

SIX

Troy

I can barely keep from humming as I make us a four-egg cheese omelet to split. I put Deena to work on the single-cup coffeemaker, sneaking glances at those long beautiful legs below my old t-shirt. It’s sexy as hell, especially because I know she’s otherwise naked. And once I’ve satisfied our appetite for food, we’ll go satisfy our appetite for each other again.

And again, and again, if I have any say about it.

As I cut the omelet in half and plate it, I can’t stop myself from asking. “Are we together now?” I hand her a plate.

She takes it and sets it on the small table in the dining room just steps from the kitchen. I get out utensils and the half-and-half. She never used to take sugar in coffee, just in iced tea, so I point to the sugar bowl on the table.

To my surprise, she dumps in a spoonful and stirs it, sipping with every evidence of pleasure.

“I love you,” I say without even thinking about it.

Her eyes meet mine. She opens her mouth, and then her eyes fill with tears.

“It’s okay. You don’t have to say it.” I take a big bite of omelet.

“What do you mean, I don’t have to say it?” She sounds a little annoyed.

“I mean, you make decisions with your whole self. If we’ve just made love like that, you’ve decided to forgive me. Whether you can say it yet or not, it’s okay.”

“All’s right with the world?” she says. She’s not eating.

I eat more omelet, thinking how to explain. “It’s easy. I mean, I think it’s easy. You’re probably still going to put me through hell until I apologize sufficiently.” She makes a skeptical noise, but I keep going. “And that’s right. You should expect me to grovel, because it was my fault.” She rolls her eyes. “No, seriously, listen. I fucked up. I fucked up really badly.”

“You sure did.”

“And I know it. And you know it. And we both know how sorry I am. But I think it’s going to take a while for you to really trust me again, and I’m saying that’s okay with me.”

“Why?”

“This is the easy part: because I’m going to be trustworthy. Because I know I am. All I have to do is keep living the way I want to live, and you’ll see. You’ll see I have become the man I always thought I was before the rug got pulled out from under me.” I look at her eyebrows knotted together and the sadness on her face, and I lean across the little table to kiss her forehead. “You’ll see. I promise.”

“Easy for you to say,” she mutters.

I kiss her forehead again. “Yeah. And I promise to stick it out. Even when you’re mad at me for the past, I will be here. I’ll be here for you. Deena, I love you. I’m sorry for being a shithead.”

She toys with a bite of omelet. “You’re sorry for sleeping with that girl?”

Wait, what?

“Sleeping with what girl?”

She gives me a murderous glare.

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