“Is this true?” Fallon asks Penny as she steps inside and closes the door behind her. “What Luke said. Is it true that you were in here and he had no idea?” Her voice is a deadly kind of calm, one I am not used to coming from her.
“It is true,” Dom says from across the room, making us all jump. “Babe, this looks so, so bad. But I swear it, he was just telling me howexcited he was to see you.”
Fallon takes in the room, studying us all before turning to face Penny.
“So, shall I take it as you are touching my boyfriend without his consent?” She asks, edging closer to us, her head tipping to the side.
“Er, well, he…” Penny grasps for words that she can't seem to find. “He likes me, I know he does.”
“Even if that were true, do you think this is appropriate? Touching him when he clearly doesn’t want you to, in little to no clothing. Just because you are a woman doesn’t mean this isn't sexual harassment.”
Holy shit. She went there. If there is anything I have learnt in this life, it is when to keep my mouth shut. If my girl wants to handle this, I will gladly leave her to it, because fuck knows I am out of my comfort zone right now.
“I didn’t mean to,” she stammers again.
“But you did, and you still are,” she growls. “Get your fucking hands off my boyfriend!”
Penny turns her head back to me, her eyes wide and pleading. “Luke, you want this, don’t you? You and me? I’ve heard the rumours…”
“Rumours? Penny, I’m sorry that you thought I in any way led you on, but I can promise you, I am totally obsessed with that woman over there. Any rumours you may have heard,” I say, but Dom chimes in.
“Or started,” he raises his brows andcrosses his arms.
“They aren’t true. I think you need to get dressed and go back to work.”
Her eyes well up with tears, but she finally releases me from her hold.
“But…”
“But nothing,” Fallon barks. “Get the fuck out of here.”
And that is exactly what she does, throwing on her dress and zipping it up, then dashes from the room. I turn to Fallon, not knowing what to expect, but her running over to me wasn’t one of them.
“Are you okay?” She asks, her eyes trailing over me.
“I'm fine, Fal,” I say, a little confused.
“Luke, just because you're bigger than her doesn’t mean what she’s just done is okay. She touched you without your consent, and it's wrong.”
God, I knew I was falling hard for this woman, but this has made me love her all the more. There wasn’t even an ounce of distrust on her face from the second she assessed the room.
“You’ve got to admit, it was really fucking funny,” Dom bursts into hysterics. “This could only happen to you, pretty boy.”
Fallon comes closer and tucks herself into my side, her arms wrapping around me tightly.
“Urg, Luke,” she groans. “You smell of her skanky perfume.”
I’d be worried at that if it wasn’t for her own smile coming out to play. Did that really just happen? What the hell am I meant to do now?
What a fucking end to another stressful day in the ED.
