He shoves in a chunk of meat and chews.
“I’m a big girl, you know, it was just a fuck.I don’t expect you to marry me because you screwed me over the kitchen counter.”
His brows draw lower and he attacks the steak with his knife.
“Forget it ever happened,” I say.How I’ll mange that I don’t know.My pussy is aching from where he’s stretched me and pounded into me.
He stops chewing.“Maybe that’s gonna be the problem.Forgetting it.”
I pause with my food halfway to my mouth.“There is no problem, Reaper.We’re consenting adults.Both single, I think?”
For the first time I check his ring finger.Nothing.
“Yeah, I’m single,” he says gruffly.His lips press together then he takes a slug of his drink.“The problem is we’re from different worlds.”
I continue eating wondering if he’ll elaborate.
“You’re from that squeaky clean hospital, full of rules and good people and...”He shakes his head.“I belong with a bunch of life’s cast-offs, scraping our way through the world.”
I hold his gaze.“I think you know I’m not squeaky clean.”
He rubs his temple.“You are, compared to me.Fuck.”
I shrug.“That’s the past, it’s gone.The future we can’t control.It’s just here and now and protecting her, which is a good thing.”I jerk my head at the stairs.“Why are you making it complicated?I’m not.”
For a moment he doesn’t speak, then, “Fucking hell.I forgot you were so damn smart.”He sets down his fork and reaches for my hand, sets his big one over it.“Sorry, I get in my own head sometimes.”He lets out a sigh.“There’re things I’m not proud of.Things I’ve done, you know.Sometimes they weigh heavy, probably when I meet someone who is the exact opposite to me.”
“You want to talk about those things that weigh heavy?”
“Hell, no.”He releases my hand and carries on eating.“Ain’t no one need to hear that dark shit.”
Chapter Six
Reaper
We eat the rest of the meal with a semblance of conversation and then Scarlet goes to check on her patient.
