Bree laughed and pushed at Jase’s shoulders. “That’s not going to get me to work on time.”
Jase collapsed onto his back. Bree raised up on an elbow and ran a hand across his chest. “Me first.” She gave him a quick kiss. She rolled away him.
“I’ll let your dogs out and fix coffee while you shower.”
“Thank you.”
Bree made her way to the kitchen dressed in her standard uniform of black yoga pants and long sleeve shirt under a scrub shirt. Jase wrapped something in a paper towel and set it next to a to-go cup of coffee.
“What’s that?”
“Egg and cheese on an english muffin,” he said.
“Wow. Breakfast to go?”
He kissed the side of her neck. “I figured you worked up an appetite this morning.”
She grinned and picked up a sandwich. “That I did. What are your plans for today?” She took one of the cups he held out to her.
“I need to run some errands for the trip this weekend and restock some supplies. What about you? What time do you get done with work?”
“My last appointment is at three, so I should be able to leave around four-thirty.”
“Your place or mine tonight?”
“Mine. Denise is bringing that mama dog over before she goes to dinner with her cousin.”
“I can keep Charlie and Polly again, if you need me to,” he told her.
Bree raised her eyebrows slightly. “You don’t mind? Did Charlie get in your way on Friday?”
Jase leaned down and gave her a brief kiss on her lips, but didn’t pull away when he told her, “I wouldn’t offer if I minded.” He straightened before continuing. “It was actually nice having him with me for the day. I might have to talk to you about adopting my own.”
She smiled big. “Really?”
“Really,” he answered with a smile of his own.
Bree stepped closer and raised up on her tiptoes and gave him a hard kiss. Taking control of the kiss, Jase pulled her closer, his tongue delving between Bree’s lips to tangle with hers. Desire coiled low in her belly before spreading out, up through her chest and arms and down her legs. She felt languid and energized at the same time — relaxed, but tingly.
Before Bree could drop her coffee to the floor and have her way with Jase right there in his kitchen, he pulled away slightly with deep inhale. “You need to go before I make you call in sick and drag you back upstairs.”
“Yeah,” she whispered. “Probably a good idea.”
“Dragging you upstairs or you going to work?”
With a quick peck, Bree pulled out of his arms. “Going to work.”
One calloused finger tucked an errant strand of hair behind her ear. “I’ll see you tonight.”
Bree grabbed a sandwich off the counter. She glanced over her shoulder as she opened the kitchen door and smiled at Jase. “See you later.”
That smile stayed with her the rest of the day. It was infectious, and she passed it on to everyone. The only person who seemed not to respond was her assistant, Cindy.
Bree took advantage of a lull between patients. “Cindy, I’m going to grab a coffee. Do you want to go?”
Cindy looked up from the computer on her desk. “No thank you, Dr. Marks. I need to input all these patient notes into the system.”
Bree leaned against the door jamb to the shared office. Cindy was the only assistant in there at the moment, the three other medical assistants busy checking in patients.
