Let Me Love You Again

Chapter 7

Maya

That day got off to a bad start, I started my shift after lunch, and I was supposed to be working until 8:00 that night, but the emergency room was full. There had been a huge accident that had caused many injuries, so I decided to stay in the hospital as much as I could possibly, or at least as long as I could stay with a small child at home.

It was almost midnight when I went to the nurses' locker room to change, my uniform was completely dirty with blood, again, and I only had one spare. That meant tomorrow I had to go to the laundry early in the morning.

Next week, Jess and Andrew were getting married, and apparently, I got stuck as a bridesmaid with a super happy Lucas.

Axel would be there, and Jess made a point of buying him a stylish suit even though I repeated over and over again that it was not necessary because it would get him dirty immediately.

But my friend didn’t care. So, I had this little James Bond outfit hanging in my closet for my little Latin Lover who had won the hearts of the ladies of the Dare house.

I turned the corner of the hall and ran into Andrew.

His shift had just begun, and his white coat was spotless.

"Hey, Sheppar." he winked at me.

"Hey, Playboy." I said, while I put my hand on his shoulder and give him a kiss on the cheek.

The other interns looked back at me.

Andrew was very popular with women, but it didn’t matter to him how much they try with him, or how many times they rubbed against him, for Andrew only Jess existed. It was always Jess. And it was better for him or my friend would have cut off his balls and so would I.

I put my hand through his blond hair, and one of the other doctors glared at me while Andrew wrapped his arm around my shoulder.

The interns slammed a patient’s chart and left furiously.

"You’re my medicine for intern advances." Andrew said amused.

"When they see you with the ring on your finger, they’ll stop running after you, I hope. It would be good for them if they don’t want to find a furious Jess at their door." I said shaking my head and leaning with my elbow at the bar.

"She’s so sexy when she’s jealous." Andrew said in a dreamy way, "The s*x after a jealous fight is amazing, she is uncontrollable, she marks the territory like a dog." his eyes shone with excitement at the thought.

"Please, I don’t care about my friend’s s*x skills." I said, looking disgusted.

"Which, for the record, are fabulous." he said cheerfully.

"Andrew!" I scolded him laughing.

"Are you done?" he asked looking at me.

"Yes Doctor, I’m going home after four-hour overtime." I almost proudly said.

"You shouldn’t do all this overtime with a child at home, but tomorrow no overtime, there’s a dinner at the Thomson house." he said, grabbing one of the files that another nurse was handing him.

"Is this an invitation, Dr. Thomson?" I asked doubtfully.

"Invitation would involve the possibility of choice that, by the way, you don’t have. Jess ordered me to tell you to show up at home at eight o'clock." he smiled.

God, that man was really gone.

"But what if I had other plans?" I said folding my head to the side.

"Do you have any?" Andrew asked, putting a pen in his scrubs.

"Well, no, it’s not..."

"Then at eight Sheppar, don’t be late or you’ll piss her off." Andrew said, grabbing the file and leaving.

"They’re just right for each other," I said to myself, watching him disappear into the hallways.

I took a deep breath and headed for the locker room before I was stopped again.

"Sheppar!" said a deep male voice.

I froze and turned around, finding myself facing the doctor I’d worked with most of the evening, Dr. Richard, was a handsome man, in his thirties, very young to be an attending.

He had light brown hair and dark eyes, he was much taller than I was, and by the looks of his scrubs, he was also very athletic. I stopped and put my hands in the pockets of the lab coat waiting for it to reach me.

"Tough night, eh." he told me once he came in front of me.

"Sure." I said, looking at him confused.

"Did you finish your shift?" he asked me looking at me straight in the eye.

"I’m getting off right now." I said politely.

"Me too." he said, scratching his head, "How about we stop for a drink at the bar around the corner?" He finally asked a little embarrassed.

He was really nice and if it was at any other time I would have gone immediately, Dr. Richard was good-looking and a very good doctor from what I could see in the hours I spent working with him. But unfortunately, I couldn’t just think of myself anymore.

"I’m sorry but I really have to go home, I can’t stay any longer." I said cordially.

"I understand," he said sorry, "Tomorrow night? After shift?" he asked again hopefully.

"I have an appointment tomorrow night that I can’t cancel." I said almost sorry.

He made me tender, his attempts had all been postponed, and on his face, I could read sorrow.

"But I’m free for the weekend." I said before I could stop.

What am I thinking? I have a son!

Dr. Richard’s face immediately lit up and gave a broad smile.

"Then let’s do it Saturday after the shift!" he said cheerfully.

I could feel my consciousness cry. Why could I never shut up?

"Of course." I gently said.

I certainly couldn’t tell him now that I didn’t want to go on a date, now it was too late.

Congratulations Maya.

He waved and trotted away and disappeared into the corridors himself.

Damn.

I immediately headed to the locker room with my head down, to avoid further encounters.

Once I changed, I came out of the hospital and I headed to the parking lot where my car was, in the meantime I pulled the phone out of my purse and I went to look for the chat with Jess, luckily she was online, so I decided to call her.

"May May." she sang cheerfully.

"Jess, I screwed up." I said seriously.

"Please, May, let’s not start, I wonder how you have done all these years without me." she said singing, and then she thought for a moment, "in fact, you’re only in trouble." she continued cheerfully.

"Jess! Stop it!" I said by opening the car and getting inside.

"What did you do this time?" her cheerfulness was nerve-wracking.

"Why are you so happy?" I suddenly asked.

"Oh I just had some terrifying s*x so that my future husband remembers who he belongs to when the other specialists blink his eyelashes." Jess quietly said.

"My God, Jess." I said in a disgusted voice, while she busted into a loud laugh.

I remembered Andrew’s satisfied gleam just before. I’m sure there was no danger of her looking at anyone other than Jess. After all, he had always been in love with her and he certainly wouldn’t have let her get away because of some skank.

"Let’s get back to you, young lady!" cried Jess on the phone, making me laugh at my thoughts, "What did you do?!"

"I accidentally agreed to go have a date with an attending." I said, putting my forehead on the steering wheel of the car.

Jess screamed and forced me to pull the phone away from my ear to keep me from being deaf on one side.

"What’s wrong with that?!" cried he.

"There is that I have a son Jess! A child of a few months that needs me! I cannot leave him for the first that happens!" I said exasperated.

"Oh shut up! We have to make you presentable, that means full hair removal, manicure, pedicure, hair." she started to snort like hell.

"Jess, do you listen to me when I talk?" I was now more exasperated than ever. Why didn’t she understand?

"I always listen to you, but that doesn’t mean I care what you say."

"Oh thank you!" I was almost offended.

"May May you need to f**k, son or not son. Good s*x will not hurt you." replied Jess very serious.

"I’m not going to sleep with him, Jess. We’re just going to get something to drink after the shift. And I can’t even drink." I said.

"Never mind! You take your time I’ll keep Axel!" He almost clapped his hands, "You may as well leave him with me all night if things take a long time."

"Jess!" I scolded her, "Stop! I’m not going to sleep with him!" I replied by starting the car.

"We’ll see. Remember tomorrow night!" he said before he hung up.

I just stared at the screen off for a few seconds before I put it in reverse and left the parking lot.

Shit!

***********

I turned off the car in front of the building where there was the apartment of the two future newlyweds. I took the phone and the bag and went out. I was forced to leave Axel with my mother again, not that she wasn’t happy about it, she almost threw me out. From my house!

I didn’t like being away from my baby that long, no matter how much my kids were available. It seemed like I’d rather do anything than be with him.

I sent a message to my mother.

All right? I asked as I went to the glass door of the building.

We’re fine. Stop annoying. My mother answered.

I glanced at my mother’s answer. She really was the mother and I the daughter? I grabbed the phone with both hands to write the message.

Are you sure you have everything? Do you have enough milk? Otherwise, I’ll come home to breastfeed him!

Stop it, Maya! That’s all my mother said.

I opened wide my mouth and prepared to answer.

"Maya!" I heard me calling.

A deep, guttural voice that gave me chills all over my body like he already knew to who that voice belonged.

I turned around and found myself watching Nate Dare, in all his beauty, as he approached me. His hands were tucked into his coat pockets. He was disheveled, and his hair was a complete mess, but it gave him a calm and serene image. The cold had made his nose and cheeks a little red. The blue eyes shone and were pointed at me, almost making my legs jelly. Almost.

His breath formed condensation in contact with cold air.

I stood there watching him, with my phone in my hands freezing, so I turned it off and put it in one of the pockets of the coat I was wearing, as I slipped into my hands, hopping from one foot to the other trying to warm myself up.

Wearing a dress was not the best idea, the black-covered thighs I wore left free access to the cold, and the wind that sometimes pulled crept under the skirt.

Nate came up and leaned down and deposited a slight kiss on my cheek, immediately the cold that I felt vanished and my body began to boil, from the point where his lips touched my skin up to the tip of my feet.

God, I really need s*x.

The pregnancy and postpartum hormones did not help my condition of horny perennial, if I was not careful, I could jump on the first that I happened to be in range.

"No kids tonight?" Nate asked looking around.

"Oh no, my mother insisted on keeping him. She said I needed a night alone." I said more bitterly than I wanted to seem.

"You don’t seem very happy about it." Nate said when he opened the door, "Hi Dale." he said, saying hello to the doorman.

"I don’t like being away from Axel." I said, heading to the elevator and pressing the call button.

Nate stood next to me, hands in his pockets. I could feel his look pointed at my profile, a red-hot look that made my legs tremble.

It looked like I was back to being the stupid little girl who spent the entire afternoon watching him walk from room to room shirtless.

The mere memory of Nate’s naked chest, of the teenage Nate, made me tremble. As a teenager he had all the muscles in the right places, what would his naked body be like as an adult? And why was I thinking about his naked body?

Could I have been dumber? Probably not.

The elevator doors finally opened, and we went in. Nate entered the code for the plan of the two future spouses and immediately the doors closed.

"You’ll have to loosen the rope and leave it alone for a while." Nate said, leaning against the wall and looking at me, "How are you going to do it when you have to leave him in kindergarten?" I electrocuted him with my eyes and made him laugh.

"When the time comes, I’ll think about it." I said seriously.

Nate laughed, and the doors opened in front of the entrance of the two lovebirds' apartment. Nate waved his hand at me to go first, laughing and I looked at him confused, and entered the apartment.

Following the scent of food, I went to the kitchen where I stepped and turned immediately closing my eyes as if I were on fire.

"Jess!" I said screaming.

"Oh s**t, May!" she said as I heard Andrew laughing behind my back.

"Do you two ever get tired?" I asked as I heard the sound of a zip being pulled up.

"I can’t help it if my boyfriend is sexy enough to make me want to tear his clothes off." Jess defended herself.

I opened my eyes and I noticed that Nate was only approaching the kitchen at that moment, laughing among other things.

"Did you know?" I asked looking at him.

"I have surprised them so many times that I now know exactly how to behave." he said shrugging.

"Are you presentable?" I asked without turning back.

"We’re not even done." Andrew complained.

"Turn around." said Jess.

I turned around and saw her fixing the cup of the low-cut dress she was wearing, the blond hair was a bit messy, and you could see that Andrew’s hands had been in between while he was trying to hold her still. The skirt was wrinkled in the back and Jess was trying to fix it up while she gave Andrew a mischievous grin and straightened his shirt. Both had red lips and were swollen the cause was definitely given by the moment of passion they were living on the table before I entered and interrupted them.

"Please don’t tell me we’re going to eat at that table." I asked by putting a hand on my face trying to forget my friend’s scene with her skirt up while Andrew was pumping her from behind.

Jess gave me a big smile and I shook my head.

"Oh come on, we’ll eat in the dining room, not in the kitchen." Jess said.

I sighed with relief and shook my head.

"Do you stay in your coat all night?" Nate asked me.

I turned around and looked at him for a moment, then I realized I was still wearing my coat.

"Oh yeah." I said on the way back to the lobby.

Nate was following me, and I didn’t understand why while in the kitchen the two shamelessly giggled and swore to hear even the snap of a kiss.

"You might as well have warned me." I told Nate as I was parading my coat and hanging it in the proper place.

"And make you miss the scene?" he asked laughing.

"It wasn’t something I wanted to see." I said, turning to him again.

Nate looked at me carefully and, although he tried to hide it, I saw the eye falling on the neckline of the dress that showed off the wide neckline I had. He cleared his voice and turned his head away.

I didn’t mean to show off the neckline so much, but it didn’t matter what dress I was wearing, my breasts were full and prosperous because of breastfeeding, and whatever fabric I put on it would highlight it.

"Let’s go," Nate said as he walked back into the room.

I looked at him from behind and admired the fabulous ass that was wrapped perfectly by the pants. I bent my head to the side to look at it better and when I raised my eyes I found myself in front of Jess’s gaze.

She was looking at me from the kitchen door with her hands crossed on her chest. All that was missing was that she began to beat her foot on the ground. I immediately pulled myself up and looked away from Nate’s butt, giving my friend an innocent smile.

"Maya help me in the kitchen." Jess said seriously.

Oh oh oh. It was never a good sign when she called me by my full name and not by nicknames.

Head down, I walked into the kitchen and passed her while Nate went somewhere else.

"Maya Jo Sheppar!" she said, scolding me but keeping her voice down.

"I didn’t do anything Jess Sarah Dare soon Thompson." I said as I approached a pot with gravy in it and started to turn.

"I saw you!" Jess replied by standing next to me.

"I don’t know what you’re talking about." I pretended not to.

"Look, I know you’ve got your hormones running high and everything, but don’t drool behind him. Nate’s not for you." she said, lowering her voice even further.

"I wasn’t drooling." I defended myself by stirring the sauce.

"My floor is not of the same opinion" crossed his arms to the chest and looked at megrim.

"I was just admiring a nice ass. Is it forbidden now?" I asked snorting.

"Yes!" she said, knocking her foot on the ground, "If it’s my brother’s!" she kept lowering her voice.

"Oh please! I’m not stripping in front of him or begging him to take me on your carpet!" I said exasperated.

"No, but you would!" replied Jess.

"Oh shut up!" I said, stirring the sauce vigorously.

"Please, Maya, avoid tripping over my brother’s penis." I looked at her speechless and, when I was about to replicate, the object of our conversation materialized in the kitchen.

"Do you need a hand?" Nate kindly said looking at us.

"No!" we both said in unison.

I turned my back on Nate and kept minding my own business with gravy while I felt his eyes on my back.

"You can go, Nate." said Jess.

I should have stayed home.