It was agony being away from her, especially when I chickened out about asking her on our date.
But now I’m back, and I keep a goofy grin on my face the entire morning of my first shift at the clinic as her familiar scent wafts through the building.
“What’s you got you smiling so much?” Doctor Jolie asks me, her voice fond.
“Just glad to be back,” I murmur as I clip a particularly grumpy cat’s claws. Even the hisses and growls can’t deter me today.
I’m asking Maeve out. I’m doing it.
Her chamomile scent stays in the air, an ever-present reminder of how lovely she is.
I’ve worked up my nerves enough over the week that I’m prepared to ask for what I want.
And what I want isher.
Even Logan notices it when I assist him with taking blood samples.
“Feeling better?” he asks me.
“Yeah. Did you miss me?”
He chuckles under his breath. “Sure. I mean, entering my own notes wasn’t too fun.”
“Aw. That must have been difficult for you.”
“It was.”
Logan has never been the best with playful banter, but I appreciate him trying.
When I originally trained under him, the only time he spoke to me was to give me instructions.
Eventually, I learned he wasn’t an asshole, just painfully shy.
So, this? I’ll take any bit of social growth.
“By the way,” he adds after a few moments of silence. “I talked to her. To Maeve.”
My chest tightens at her name and my inner Alpha growls to life.
Mine.
“You did?”
“I got her coffee order like you told me to, then apologized,” he murmurs, his attention turned back to the computer. “She was receptive. She was…kind.”
“Receptiveandkindare words I would use to describe her, yes,” I say patiently. “What did she say?”
He stops typing at the computer and turns his head, his eyes wistful. “She called me a cat super genius,” he says softly and with reverence.
Like it’s the most amazing, precious thing he’s even been told.
I raise an eyebrow. “I mean, you kind of are.”
But his gaze is far away with longing etched into his face. “She accepted my apology,” he says. “Easily.”
“That’s Maeve for you.”
With a shrug, he returns to the computer.
