He winked, taking a slice of meat lovers, leaving me the plain old cheese.
Not the most adventurous, but it was the most pure.
I loved me some cheese pizza.
There were no other competing flavors to contend with the cheese and sauce.
We ate and talked about our day.
Odin told them how I was puked on by a small child. I told them how Odin had some of his beard hair ripped out from an old lady. Bernice told Hux that some old man felt her up.
All in all, it was a good day.
Hopefully, all the days wouldn’t be like this.
Since the doctor had died, there were quite a few appointments to make up, and we might be quite busy until we were able to catch back up.
Dinner was hurried since we were all so tired, and within twenty minutes, we were all filing out of the building.
“See y’all at nine!” Bernice called as she walked toward the truck her brother had helped her recently pick out.
I’d talked with her about it over lunch, and she’d shared that she would’ve gone the same route as me had it not been for her brother forcing her to get something more fit for a Montana winter.
Gentry helped me into the truck, but instead of closing the door once he had me in the seat, he yanked me to the edge and wrapped his big arms around my waist, stepping between my legs, hugging me tight.
“Missed you.”
I had missed him, too.
“Did you have a good day?” he asked. “Other than the getting puked on part?”
I turned to press my lips to his throat while threading my arms around his neck.
He pressed deeper, pressing our bodies together from head to hips.
I squeezed his hips with the inside of my thighs before answering, “It was okay. I hope that it calms down, because I don’t want to go that crazy all the time. It was nonstop work from the moment we opened the practice until we closed the doors behind the last patient. Dr. Pendelton used to allow walk-ins, so there were also those patients trying to get seen, too. We tried to accommodate them the first few hours, but eventually we realized that it wasn’t possible and started sending them away with appointments. We need more nurses. At least two more. Probably a couple of techs, too. Maybe a phlebotomist.”
His fingers splayed across my rib cage, and he clenched them, causing me to squeak as he tickled me.
He chuckled and pulled away. “Sorry.”
I ran the backs of my fingers along the length of his jaw. “How was your day?”
His eyes gleamed. “Pretty damn good. Reunited that kid with his parents. Though he has a hell of a fear of women now. But he’ll make it. Got a bunch of nowhere with trying to find his trail. But we’ll get there.”
I dropped my hand to his throat and lightly squeezed. “You will.”
He hummed as he started to press kisses to the side of my neck, going upward until he reached the shell of my ear.
My hands clenched on his long-sleeved tee, and I swiveled my hips a bit, pressing myself to his stomach. As I did, the sharp point of his badge dug into my inner thigh, and I hissed.
He pulled back and glanced down, seeing the problem.
“Maybe we should head home.”
I reluctantly agreed and we were headed back to his place long moments later.
As we pulled up, I saw Neo poke his head out of his heated dog house, watching us pull up.
