“And if he’s been there and is still coming for advice, then he doesn’t care if he goes back as long as he wins her over,” Grant said.
“Sounds like what we both went through a time or two. It is fun to watch our kids flounder a little. As long as they get there in the end.”
33
Deeper Connection
“You’ve been quiet the past few days. Everything okay?” Adriana asked Wyatt. It’d been a few weeks since she’d brought him to her father’s for dinner.
Since he held her in his arms in her bed and spent the night.
Since her heart started to soften and she wondered if she should stop it or not.
Especially since Wyatt seemed not himself this week.
“I think that might be the first time you’ve said I’ve been quiet,” he said to her. They were walking into work from the parking lot. She’d stayed the night at his place despite saying she didn’t want to do it during the week. But they’d gone out to dinner and by the time they’d gotten to his place and ended up in his bed, she’d fallen asleep. She woke up hours later and he pulled her back and said not to leave.
How could she resist something like that when he was warm and sleepy...sexy. His big arm wrapping her up and pulling her close.
He’d convinced her to leave a set of scrubs there in case something like this ever happened. She’d been reluctant and realized it might have been his master plan all along that she was falling for.
“I’d say we wore each other out last night, but you’ve been like this a few days.”
“Don’t say that too loud. Someone might hear you.”
He was grinning when he said it, but she’d caught the sarcasm in his voice. It’d been there more lately when it came to this topic.
“You know why.”
“Yeah, I get it. I wish I didn’t, but I do.”
She frowned. “Did something happen I should know about?” she asked. “Something you aren’t telling me?”
“Fierce. Wait up.”
“Shit,” he said. “Bye. I’ll talk to you later.”
She moved past him into the building while he waited for whoever called his name to catch up and talk to him.
She couldn’t figure out what was going on with him lately, but it only seemed to happen at work. After hours he was the ideal boyfriend.
They had so much fun together. Had done a ridiculous amount of activities and had a great time. She didn’t want to say he was perfect because no one was perfect.
She was locking her purse up and going to the computer to see what was scheduled for the day when she felt a presence at her back.
“Adriana. How are you doing?”
“Savanna,” she said back. “Pretty good. You?”
“So rumor has it you and Wyatt have been dating. I thought you were just friends.”
“We are friends,” she said back with a grin.
Melissa came over to join the conversation and Adriana had a feeling she wasn’t going to come out of this as unscathed as she would have hoped. “I heard it too. But what I heard was that someone saw you two at the golf course weeks ago having lunch with his brothers. I said no way you were dating that you were friends with the family. I mean if you were dating, why didn’t you defend him when Dr. Jones was going to file that complaint. You were standing right there when he was bitching about Wyatt? Any girlfriend would have come to his defense.”
She wanted to grind her teeth over that shot to her. Thankfully Wyatt had smoothed things over with Dr. Jones. He’d apologized and said he meant nothing by it but then pointed out the fact that many of the patients were more nervous after talking to Dr. Jones than before. Wyatt had told her he hoped he’d gotten through to the guy and realized that maybe he should have had that talk with him prior rather than trying to make a joke or loosen him up.
So though she wanted to defend Wyatt, she was glad she’d kept her mouth shut then as it worked out in the end and Wyatt actually learned a lesson himself. At least he’d told her he did. Maybe they both were growing by being together.
Just not enough to fully admit her relationship and she felt bad about that but wasn’t quite ready to pull the trigger just yet.
“As I’ve explained to others in the past, my stepmother and Wyatt’s mother work together.”
“Were you having lunch with all three of them?” Savanna asked. “I’m not sure I could eat if I was sitting at the table with three Fierce men.”
She wouldn’t come out and lie. “Yes,” she said and moved away from them with the laptop. She hoped they’d get the hint. Savanna did, but Melissa came over.
“Even if you are dating, which I think you are. It’s smart not to tell too many people because it won’t last.”
“Excuse me?” she said. She should have just nodded her head and gone back to work but couldn’t do it.
“Wyatt dates and he’s been in some relationships, but I think a few months is his limit. I know you’ve heard all about him and how he doesn’t take much seriously. I’m not saying he only dates nurses, but that is his MO. And when he is dating someone, it’s not long term.”
Wyatt had admitted that himself. And hadn’t he told her that meeting her parents was a first for him?
Was it because he never wanted to be in a long-term relationship?
Could that be why he was quiet lately? That he was trying to figure out a way to move away from her?
No. She was being silly.
He wanted to be around her more than she did him.
He wanted her to stay last night and every night if she’d give in to him.
She was seeing things that weren’t there.
Or was she?
Maybe it wouldn’t hurt to step back a little.
Well,
