Page 38 of Divorced from Number Thirty-Eight
For him to kiss me hot and sweet and long.
Maybe I misread?—
There’s a knock at the door.
He curses softly, glances over his shoulder, and I follow his gaze, see a woman in a lab coat standing there.
Her eyes come to mine and she asks, “Ready to get out of here?”
Out of the hospital? Yes.
Out of Gray’s arms?
No.
Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll ever want that.
Thirteen
Gray
She’s quiet from the passenger seat, but I don’t miss the tension filling her frame, ratcheting tighter and tighter as I navigate us closer to our street.
And, damn.
I should have thought of this.
I pause at the stop sign and consider my next move.
Then know I need to keep driving.
Because I think not seeing her house, not knowing what she’s lost and what’s still left is going to be worse than facing this head-on.
Her shoulders go stiffer and her hands clench together.
“Breathe, Red,” I murmur, reaching over the console and snagging one small hand, loosening her fist, lacing my fingers with hers.
She exhales and it’s shaky again, as shaky as it had been back at the hospital when those plump lips of her parted, the tip of her pink tongue sliding out to moisten them, turning them slick and damp and…tempting.
I would have tasted her had the doctor not interrupted.
I want to taste her now.
A horn beeps behind me and my gaze jerks to the rearview, seeing the car behind me, impatiently waiting.
Probably because I’ve turned a stop sign into a stop light.
One that hasn’t turned green.
I exhale and wrench myself back into focus.
Then I squeeze her hand again and start forward, rolling through the intersection and eventually—after two more turns—making it onto our street.
The fire is completely out, but if it’s anything like yesterday, the smell of smoke will be lingering in the air. And since the sky is clear of any clouds, the sun bright and shining, the charred remains of Faye’s home will be far too easy to spot.
Case in point?
She sucks in a breath as I turn into my driveway, her gaze pointed through the passenger side window, her body stiff and her jaw clenched.
