Page 53 of Feel Me

“It’s all good,” Finn says through a mouthful of food. “She got us a sweet deal on a bunch of merchandise for the gym. But yeah, they still want to fuck her.” He does a double-take when Kill glares at him. “What? I’m just speaking the truth. It’s the same damn reason I don’t let Sol come to the gym. If anyone puts the moves on her with me standing there, someone’s leaving in an ambulance and it’s not going to be me.”

“Christ,” I say, shaking my head.

Curran huffs, pointing at Killian. “Finnie has a point. You should have ripped those bastards in half. Get this, me and Tess went to her OB the other day. She’s been going alone because I’m usually working or with the baby. But this last time I had the day off and wanted to go, seeing how I’ve been missing out and because I never missed one when she was pregnant with Fiona. So I show up with her and in walks this dude.”

Seamus leans in. “Her doctor’s a man?” Curran nods. “And you didn’t know?”

“The moron’s name is Dr. Rosey.Rosey. Would you think that name belongs to a man?”

“No,” we all grumble.

“So at first I’m just in shock,” Curran says, continuing. “So I shake his hand like a dumbass. But then he pulls out these stirrups?”

“Pants?” Finnie asks, sounding as confused as the rest of us appear.

“No.Worse,” Curran says. “They’re these things at the end of the examination table used to spread a woman’s legs open.”

“JesusChrist,” we all groan. Finnie and Seamus are so grossed out they push their plates of food aside.

“I know, on the table my woman is laying on!” His face reddens, he’s still pissed. “I’m standing there watching her put her legs in these things. But it’s when good ol’ Dr. Rosey slaps on the rubber gloves that I completely lost my shit.”

“Did you tell him to get away from her?” I ask.

“Of course I did. Do you think I was going let some man feel up my wife?mypregnantwife? in front me?” He throws his hands in the air. “Tess was all mad, saying I embarrassed her and blew things out of proportion.” He points at me. “But you know what? Now she has a new doctor and this time I made damn sure she’s a woman.”

My brothers all nod in agreement. “You did the right thing,” Angus says.

“I know I did,” Curran agrees. He looks at me. “You’re fucking Melissa, aren’t you?”

Sometimes, I really hate Curran. “No,” I say, waiting too long to answer.

“Liar,” Seamus says, regaining his appetite and stealing Finnie’s hot dog.

“You don’t even know who we’re talking about,” I snap.

Seamus laughs. “Maybe not, but we know whoever she is you’re fucking her.”

“Watch your mouth,” I growl.

Finn smirks. “I saw that coming a mile away.”

“You didn’t see shit,” I tell him.

He ignores me, calling to Curran. “Didn’t I tell you it was only a matter of time?”

“I’m the one who told you, asshole,” Curran fires back.

I dig my hands into my hair. “Will both of you shut the fuck up?”

Killian frowns. He’s been quiet, but it’s more like him to sit back and observe. “You like her, don’t you?”

I reach for a beer, but then think better of it. “She’s nice.”

“Nice?” Killian repeats.

“Yeah.” It’s all I can think to say. I’m having a real hard time pretending Melissa isn’t more than a nice woman I work with. Every waking thought is about her. The way she smiles when she sees me, or how she settles me with her presence, even when the cases I’m juggling seem like more than any one man can handle.

“Damn,” Curran says. “Tess was right.”

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