His Shooting Star: A Steamy Standalone Instalove Romance by Flora Ferrari

Author:Flora Ferrari [Ferrari, Flora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Gillian

Where are you, Xander?

I know he’s coming, I can feel it. But it also feels like I’m sharing his sense of urgency about something.

A sense of worry.

It’s strange, but he really has changed so much in just twenty-four hours. Or maybe I’m really only getting to know him.

But yesterday he was almost absent-minded, engrossed in his work, the stars, and not much else.

Today, he’s laser-focused, in complete control, and extremely protective of me, and after everything that’s happened so far, I have to admit I feel the same way.

Not that I could do much to protect him from anything if he needs protecting.

But here I go again, worrying like I always do and only when he’s not around.

A car pulls up out front, and I feel my heart leap. Before he even gets out I know it’s him.

A little late for someone who said they’d be right over, but he’s here. He’s here!

I clumsily try to launch out of the stupid wheelchair, almost busting my other ankle in the process.

The waiting area is empty but I still feel self-conscious. Not wanting to embarrass or get Xander into trouble by leaping straight into his arms.

But he doesn’t seem to want anything else.

Leaving his car running and the door open, he makes a direct line for me through the front doors and scoops me up, squeezing me so tight with both his huge arms I can barely get a word out or a breathe in.

“I love you too,” is the first thing I have to tell him, and feeling him groan with pleasure at the news, he shifts his grip on me, swinging me up so one arm supports my legs.

Like he’s carrying me across the threshold.

Today, that threshold is an entrance/exit to a campus medical center but it’s a start.

Waiting for him, and especially after seeing that little girl all alone, I know what I want in life now more than anything.

A family. I want to be the mom I never had, and be one half of the mom and dad that little girl maybe never had either.

And I only want it with Xander, nobody else. And if I come to blows or even lose my dad’s love and trust in the process, it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

“You okay?” he asks me again, brushing my hair back before easing me into the front seat like the most fragile object in the world.

“I’m better now. Now that you’re here,” I tell him, and he kisses me.

We kiss until the car behind his honks, the driver holding both hands in the air in question as we both observe a line of traffic backed up behind us.

“Let’s get some lunch,” Xander says, buckling me in and striding over to his side of the huge sedan.

Big guy, bigger car I guess. I don’t recognize the make but it looks immaculate, very sexy, and very big. Just like its owner.

It purrs out of the drop-off zone and in moments we’re humming towards the town center, with Xander seeming to have already decided where we’re going to eat.

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