She thumbed back over her shoulder. “That car in the driveway. Is it?—”
The words were tumbling out of my mouth before I could stop them. “Yeah, Silas came over.”
She gave me a slow once over. “The guy from the other day? Your... doctor?”
“Surgeon... Technically.”
Why the fuck was I playing semantics?
Like any of that mattered while trying to play it cool with my sister, who would have no problem scolding me in front of the man who had been ten seconds away from getting me to kick my sweats off.
“Didn’t know doctors did house calls around here.” Her tone was flat.
Lie?
Tell the truth?
Two sides warring inside of my head with no clear solution to getting out of the looming onslaught of questions Amelia was absolutely readying herself to throw at me.
What the fuck was I supposed to say with my brain still half-swimming in lust hormones?
“Uh.”
Great.
Real smart answer.
Definitely would be throwing Amelia off my trail with that one.
“Sometimes we do.”
My heart skipped a beat as I turned around to see Silas. He kept a good two feet between us, not at all looking half as flustered as I felt, given what we’d just been up to. Calm, cool and collected, as always.
I wondered what that felt like.
Must be freeing.
He lifted a shoulder when he addressed my sister again. “It depends on the situation.”
She eyed him carefully. “And what situation isthis one?”
There was a single beat of silence; one that I swore went on for eons. Silas’s mouth pursed just enough for me to catch,a barely-there expression that, if not actually watching him closely, would be totally missed.
“One that happened because your brother was too much of a bleeding heart to say no to his partner talking him into going on a call earlier.”
My mouth dropped to the floor. He wasn’t throwing me under the bustwicein a single evening.
No fucking way.
Subtly reprimanding my partner was bad enough, especially, when he would no doubt be guilted into looping my captain in on what happened. If my leave got extended any longer because of that one single call, I was going to lose my mind.
Desk duty was going to be bad enough when I came back. Adding another two weeks on top of that where I was banned from coming in beforehand would drive me insane. I hated being cooped up in this damn house.
Her brows knitted together. “Call? What call?”
“Mmm.” He clapped a hand on my shoulder, leaving it there for only a second. “Guess it turned into some kind of on-foot chase. Found him stumbling around the ER earlier.”
This bastard?—
