Fix You by Mari Carr

Author:Mari Carr [Carr, Mari]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781619213203
Google: -VQFHl_ExxgC
Amazon: B009KOX5WC
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2012-12-11T06:00:00+00:00

The stubborn man had taken that damn vow to heart. The wallpaper in the bathroom was well beyond its years and they both knew it. Even so, the fucking faded purple flowers remained.

She glanced to her side to find Robbie staring at her curiously.

“You’re smiling. What are you thinking about?”

She took his hand. “Nothing much. Silly stuff.”

“You feel like breakfast?”

She considered his question and realized she did. Her stomach wasn’t queasy today and she was actually hungry. “Yeah, I do.”

They sat up together. Robbie rose from the bed and pulled on a pair of boxers. She didn’t bother to look away from his tight ass. They’d been sleeping together for over two months and she still felt the desire to pinch herself every morning she woke up to find him naked in her bed.

Robbie wiggled his eyebrows when he caught her looking, but his face betrayed another, darker emotion as he glanced at something behind her. Turning, Zoey noticed hair on her pillow. A lot of hair.

It had been falling out since the first treatment, getting thinner with each passing day. The oncologist had said she would lose some this round, but probably not all of it. Judging by the pile of hair on her pillow, she’d say she and her doctor had a different definition of some.

She lifted her hand, dreading what she knew she would feel. Each day as more hair fell out, she looked sicker. “I’m shaving it.”

Robbie didn’t reply immediately. It was something they’d discussed at length the first night she noticed it was falling out. The wine girls had given her a gift certificate to a local wig shop shortly after she told them about her diagnosis and treatment plan. She’d cried when she’d opened the get well card and found the certificate. At the time, she’d blamed the tears on their thoughtfulness, but the vain woman inside knew she was mourning the inevitable moment when she’d have to use the wig.

Robbie cleared his throat. “The doctor said—”

“I know what he said, but it looks really bad. And he said the next chemo cocktail would definitely finish the job. It’s time to stop trying to save something that’s not going to last. I can’t keep waking up to this hair on my pillow. There are too many things about this whole deal I can’t control. I need this part to be on my own terms.”

“Fine. Then let’s do it.”

She shook her head. “No. If you’ll just give me your clippers, I can do it on my own. You don’t have to—”

“There’s no way you’re doing this alone, Zoey. I said we were in this together and I meant it.”

She stared at his determined, concerned, beautiful face, then said, “Okay. Let’s do it.”

Robbie went to his bedroom to grab the hair clippers from his closet. He rarely used them, opting to get his haircuts done professionally. She wasn’t even sure why he owned the clippers, but he’d had them for years.

She held out her hand when he returned.

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