Undeniable (Love Song Book 2) by Cara Dion

Author:Cara Dion [Dion, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Callie was exhausted, physically and emotionally, her mind repeating the words three months on an endless loop. She was also out of time. She should have been dressed by now, her hair dried and makeup in place. But no. Instead she was still standing in the shower, staring at the pink plastic razor in her hand like she could make it magically shave her legs on its own if she looked at it long enough.

“Are you alright in there?” Noah called through the closed bathroom door over the sound of the shower.

“Fine!” Callie called back. Her voice was bright—too bright, almost brittle.

“You’ve been in there a long time.”

That was an understatement. She’d been in the shower so long it was sporadically shooting out bursts of cold water, unable to keep up with her demand for water hot enough to fog up the glass shower doors and mirror.

You can do this.

She braced her right foot on the ledge in the corner of the shower and steadied her left hand against the wall. Slowly she bent over, little by little. Before she even made it halfway, her back screamed with pain, a sharp bolt down her spine and through her hip. She cursed and jolted upright, knocking over the bottles of body wash and shampoo precariously balanced on the narrow shelf along the shower wall.

Noah was through the door before she’d even fully registered how loud the crashing bottles were, their impact with the river rock floor echoing against the marble walls.

“What happened?”

“Noah!” Callie hugged her arms around her body in an attempt to cover herself from his view.

On the other side of the steamed-up glass door, Noah’s eyes swept over her. The panic on his face faded, a restrained heat taking its place.

“Sorry.” He turned his back, covering his eyes when they locked with hers in the mirror. “I heard a crash. I thought you fell.”

“No, I just dropped…everything. I just wanted to shave my legs,” she muttered to herself.

“Is something preventing you?”

“I can’t…bend like that right now. It’s too painful.” She could feel the tears building again, but she refused to cry over something as stupid as shaving her legs. It wouldn’t be the first time she couldn’t do it, nor would it be the last.

“What do you need to make the pain go away?”

She blew out a frustrated breath. “It doesn’t work like that. Nothing makes the pain go away. There are things that help—”

“Tell me what you need and I’ll get it for you.”

“I already took ibuprofen and I’ll put on my cream when I’m done in here. There’s nothing to do but ride it out. I thought the heat would’ve loosened things up enough by now, but…” She sniffled.

“Callie.” His voice was full of concern. He dropped his hand from his eyes and met her gaze in the mirror.

She waved it away. “It’s stupid. No one will even care if my legs are shaved or not. I just wanted to, I don’t know, feel a little

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