Page 3 of Falling Over You

She looked up into his deep blue eyes and, for a second was lost, before finally opening her mouth and speaking. “Eve Stanley.” She was already getting warm, partly from the heat in the building and partly from this Theo guy.

“Why’d you bring her in here instead of the medical offices?” Gordon asked.

“She hurt her ribs and I thought this might give her more privacy.”

Gordon sighed. “You’ve been here one day and you’re already messing with my lodge. We have the medical room for a reason.”

“You and I both know that I’m more qualified to look after her than the people you have in there.”

“Excuse me,” Eve finally said, interrupting their brotherly quarrel. “I’m perfectly capable of looking after myself. I’m not that hurt.”

“I beg to differ,” Theo said, kneeling down in front of her. “If I had to guess, you have a bruised rib and I know for a fact that hurts like a bitch.”

“Just who are you and why would you be better qualified than the medical staff that Gordon has on hand?” She had no plans to go see the medical staff but that didn’t mean she didn't want to know why Theo thought he was better qualified.

“He’s a doctor,” Gordon supplied.

“A doctor?” she asked, looking between Gordon and Theo.

“I have my own practice, but before that, I worked at the hospital in my town.”

“Oh.” That really did make him more qualified than the nurses the lodge staffed for emergencies.

“I thought I could look you over and make sure you were okay,” he said sheepishly.

“I guess that’s the least you can do since you ran into me.”

He raised an eyebrow. “I’m pretty sure you’re the one who ran into me.”

“Wrong. The other skiers were to my left so I pulled right to miss them.”

“I pulled left to miss the guy who was on my right.”

Was it her imagination or was he enjoying arguing with her? “I didn’t see anyone on your right.”

“That doesn’t mean he wasn’t there.”

“Can we all just agree that you both tried to avoid other people and move on with this,” Gordon asked. “I do have work to do that I can’t do with both of you in my office.”

“I’m so sorry, Mister Kincaid. I’ll get out of your hair.”

“Call me Gordon, and really, you should probably let my brother here check you out. Mostly because I really don’t want to be sued.”

“I would never sue you,” Eve said. “I’ve been coming here for years. You own my favorite ski lodge.”

“If you two are finished flirting,” Theo said with an edge to his voice, “I could check you and make sure there is no real damage.”

Gordon laughed. “Brother of mine, you wouldn’t know flirting if it hit you on your head with a ski.” He turned back to his desk. “I will give you fifteen minutes to do what you need to do while I do my walk-through.” He gave Eve a small wink. “Be gentle with my brother. He doesn’t go out in public often and we wouldn’t want to scare him back into his cave.”

Gordon exited the office, leaving Eve alone with his handsome brother.

Yes, he was handsome. Which was obviously part of her problem. If a hot guy was going to put his hands all over her, she’d prefer it be for other reasons.

Reasons that led to orgasms.

“Do you think you can remove your top layer?” It came out as more of a demand than a question.

“Since you asked so nicely?” She rolled her eyes and started to remove her fleece zip-up that she’d worn under her coat, but when she moved, the pain in her side was worse than before. “Ouch.” She winced in pain.

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