The Trouble with the Tempting Doc by Tina Beckett

Author:Tina Beckett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-01-12T12:02:13+00:00

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The look on Kirsten’s face was going to haunt him for a long time. The shock when she’d turned the knob and realized she couldn’t get out of his room had shifted to a flash of fear before the emotion disappeared. He remembered feeling that exact same thing as a kid, when his dad had rattled the doorknob to his room. The thought of doing something that made her afraid...

She’d asked why it was locked, and all he could think of to say was that it was out of habit.

It was.

But there were reasons behind the habit. Reasons he didn’t want to explain, since she wasn’t going to be in his life forever. And so the alternative was to clam up. She probably thought he was some kind of serial killer or something. She hadn’t been able to get out of there fast enough.

All because of something he’d done.

Goddamn. This was why he didn’t do relationships. Would never do them again. His past was his past, and not something he wanted to relive with every question. And he certainly didn’t want someone to be afraid of him.

He’d tried sharing something with Theresa once, but the questions had kept coming in a never-ending barrage that had ended in cheating and divorce.

It was easier just to move through life without worrying about what others thought—when he himself didn’t have to think about it. It was what it was, and he had no desire to change. For anyone.

Especially after what had happened with Kirsten.

Honestly? He should probably sit down and talk to her so that there was no weirdness between them.

No weirdness? How about sleeping together when they barely knew each other? How was that for weirdness? How about locking the door and scaring the crap out of her?

There was nothing normal about that.

Anger rose up in him in a wave. So what if he locked the damn door? He’d slept with two other women—women he didn’t know very well—and it hadn’t seemed to bother them. One had practically turned into a stalker afterward. So why was he suddenly so worried about what Kirsten thought?

Something inside of him, though, said that this time he needed to talk to her. To at least explain a little bit of what had happened to him. Before she got some crazy thoughts that weren’t based in reality.

It boiled down to the fact that he didn’t want her to be afraid of him. To think that he housed some kind of monstrous compulsion.

How can you be sure you don’t?

His locked doors were a compulsion. He’d been able to admit that to himself a long time ago. But it didn’t harm anyone. Or so he’d thought. Until this morning, when he’d looked into Kirsten’s eyes and saw the size of her pupils.

Yes. He was going to pull her aside and talk to her. Maybe after they looked at her patient tomorrow. If she still wanted his opinion, that is. Maybe she wanted nothing to do with him now.

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