Me And Mr. I.T. (Kupid's Cove Book 2) by Katie Mettner

Author:Katie Mettner [Mettner, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

He laid his napkin on the table after finishing his surf and turf dinner with fries, instead of a baked potato. I, on the other hand, had gone for Hawaiian saimin soup, in light of the pain and difficulty I still had with chewing. The bowl came to the table topped with shrimp, scallions, pea pods, carrots and soba noodles, nicely garnished with a sliced hardboiled egg. I wish I could have eaten all of it, but my eyes were bigger than my stomach.

“That was so good. The chef here knows how to make the perfect saimin soup,” I commented as I finished my wine.

He had his glass and was reclined too, one leg crossed over the other as he watched the ocean just over my shoulder. “I noticed you didn’t have as hard of a time keeping it from dribbling down your face. I guess that’s a good sign.”

“It’s a very good sign. I want this to heal quickly so I can get my contact back in and look normal when I have to be on television.”

“Why do you need the contact in to look normal?” he asked as he set his glass on the table. “Other than the bruising and little bit of swelling around your eye you look perfectly normal. Beautiful, in fact, so I don’t understand what the problem is.”

I sighed and made eye contact with a potted plant over his right shoulder. “The eye either freaks people out or fascinates them. Either way, they aren’t focusing on what I’m saying. That’s a big problem when my job is to promote the hotels.”

“So why don’t you only wear the contact for work? I’ve never seen you without it before now.”

“I told you this already.”

He interrupted me. “I know, the contact protects your eye from the sunlight, but they make these things called sunglasses.”

I sighed and set my glass down. “You just don’t understand and I don’t want to ruin a perfectly good dinner trying to explain something you’ll never truly get; so can we drop it?”

He shook his head slightly. “I want to understand. So if I’m wrong about wearing sunglasses, then please tell me why.”

I leaned forward and looked around to make sure no one was overhearing our discussion. “You know how your pupils constrict when it’s bright and dilate when it’s dark?” He nodded, so I went on. “This eye,” I said pointing to the right one, “doesn’t change, the pupil always remains dilated. While it’s true that I’m blind in the eye, it still lets light in and that makes it photosensitive. The only way to fix that is to block off part of the pupil with the contact. The contact serves two purposes, for cosmetic reasons, because it makes my eyes match, but it also removes the sensitivity to light.”

“But wouldn’t sunglasses do the same thing if you had UV blocking lenses?”

I nodded. “Absolutely, but I can’t go walking around inside buildings with sunglasses on. Sunlight is only one of the causes of the photosensitivity, Maltrand.

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