“What? Not done it?” she asks.

A puff of air leaves my lips. “I’d like to say that, but I don’t know for sure. That would mean that I’m a good man, and I’m not sure that I am. What I was going to say is that I would’ve done more to make sure you were more comfortable, that you got what you needed and enjoyed yourself.”

I notice her thighs flex like she’s squeezing them together to dull the ache this conversation causes between her legs. “I enjoyed myself,” she assures me, the corners of her mouth turning up slightly.

My heart starts to race and a smile of my own forms. “Good.”

She nods and drags her tongue across her bottom lip. “Did you? Enjoy yourself, I mean?”

My heart is pounding so hard that I can hear it in my ears. “I did.” I push my chair back and stand, feeling too anxious to stay still any longer. “If things were different…”

She stands. “I understand.”

I walk around my desk and look down at her. “Well, thank you for stopping by. I’m glad we had this talk, that we can put this behind us.”

“Is it really though?” Her brows knit together.

“Behind us?”

She nods, looking up at me. “All we agreed on is that nobody can find out about what happened.”

“We also agreed that we both enjoyed ourselves,” I point out, unsure why.

She smiles. “We didn’t agree to never do it again.”

“Oh yeah. I guess we should set some boundaries to keep us from getting that close again. Don’t you think?”

She shrugs her shoulder. “What did you have in mind?”

Now on the same side of my desk as her, I lean against the top. I stretch my legs out before me, crossing my ankles as I wrap my fingers around the edge of my desk, keeping my arms at my sides. “Well, I guess we shouldn’t allow ourselves to be alone with one another like this. That goes for my office and any other area of the hospital such as the supply room or patient rooms.”

“What about the elevator?”

“Oh, nothing like that could happen in the elevator. There are cameras in there.”

“There aren’t cameras in the supply room?”

I shake my head. “No, not yet anyway.”

“I don’t know how I feel about this.” She crosses her arms.

“What?”

Her eyes narrow as she looks at me. “I know I should be jumping to have all these rules put in place. I should be relieved that we’ve agreed to keep things quiet because that means I can finish my externship, but the only thing I can think about right now is how good it felt when you kissed me. And that makes me wonder why in the hell either of us want to stop that?”

Fuck…

I don’t know what comes over me, but one minute I’m making up rules to keep us apart and the next, I’m pulling her against me as our mouths crash together.

She wraps her arms around my neck and our tongues dive into the other’s mouth. My body comes alive, and that’s when I know this is going to take a whole lot more than just staying away from one another.

I’m always going to be looking for her, looking for a reason to be close to her. And it’s going to be even harder to resist when she’s doing the same.

Part of me wishes she’d turn and run. The other part is considering tying her up so she can’t ever walk away. Only time will tell which side wins.

17

ALLY