K A I

Chapter |11| Promise

E M E R Y ' S P. O. V

"So Mrs Likener, it's definitely not tuberculosis."

"But I was coughing! A lot, and there was mucus. It was thick and sticky and I...I couldn't breathe."

"Have you taken your free flu vaccinations yet?"

The grey haired woman bristled and turned away from me. "You know it's all a sham. They put rat droppings and computer chips and all sorts in that."

Oh god. I'm tired of all the hoax stuff surrounding vaccinations. Recently a false report was leaked in the news which was entirely unapproved, stating how vaccinations are actually plots for the government to track everyone.

"I assure you the vaccinations we supply are medically approved and safe to use. I could give you one now if..."

"I'm alright. I'll just go home and suffer alone, I guess." She sniffs, harking in the throes of a cold she won't admit she has and grabs her purse before fleeing my office.

I glance over my appointments for the day and I'm fully booked. No time for the fifteen minute break I had been looking forward to all day. Kai and I planned to exchange gifts for our five month anniversary.

He's working tonight, and I finish at eight, so we tend to miss each other a lot, despite living together. Kai slowly migrated into my apartment until we both realised he hadn't been home in weeks.

Now we're looking at new places together. The entire thing is surreal and exciting. It makes my long shifts bearable, as though a stepping stone to see him.

My phone buzzes with his name alight.

"Hi."

"Hey yourself, how's work?" Just at the sound of his voice all my anxiety dissipates.

"It's work. I'm sorry but I'm not going to able to meet you today. I've got a s**t ton of appointments and I doubt my boss is gonna let me out."

"He's a dick."

I smile subconsciously. "Yeah he is, but he pays me."

"You deserve better. Better pay, better patients, better facilities." There's a long pause. "I'll tell Kieron I can't come in today. We can spend the rest of the night watching that movie you like, resting pizza and then f**k on the couch."

"As wonderful as that sounds, I can't ask you to skip work for me. For us."

"It's my anniversary and I've seen my boss in diapers. Kiara will understand."

I can't kick the excitement that floods through me, knowing Kai will be there for me at the end of this tiring day. That his arms will envelop me with so much tenderness all my problems will just melt.

"Can you pick me up?" I was going to take the train back since he dropped my off this morning.

"Of course, baby. Eight, right?"

"Yeah, I..." f**k. It was about to slip out. The L word and we haven't said it yet. I feel something deep and strong for him, but it conflicts with this never disappearing fear of losing him.

If I say it out loud, everything becomes real, and I'm too cowardly to go first.

"I can't wait. Bye." I fight a smile as I hang up the phone. Even though work is anything but picture perfect, my boyfriend is f*****g amazing.

"Emery!" I jolt out of my seat as Joshua walks into the office. "Don Frieder is in waiting room. Should I tell him you're finally ready to see him?"

I clench my fists, just so I don't accidentally flip him off. "Yeah of course. Sorry." He gives me a pointed stare before walking away.

Fuck him, as Kai would say. I plaster on another smile as my patient walks in cradling his thumb.

***

"Kai!" I call out as I enter the apartment. His shoes rest neatly by the entrance which draws a smile on my face.

Our first argument was about shoes. I was brought up where the first thing you do is take them off and by the door. He saw the rule as stupid, like all rules to him, and we ended up in a two hour screaming match over it.

Eventually we both realised how stupid we were being. I said he can keep them on if he wanted and he promised me he would take them off.

A few times he's forgotten, but still, the effort is what counts for me.

My work bag is heavy on my shoulder and I finally let it drop on the counter with a thud. Something simmers on the cooker. The ripe smell of tomatoes and basil lingers in the air.

I glance inside the oven. Bread rolls rise from the heat. "I missed you." Arms envelop my waist, drawing me back against his hard chest.

I bite my lip, sinking into his warm embrace. "I missed you too. What are you making?"

"Tomato soup with fresh bread." He brushes his lips against my temple. "I don't want you to be too full for dessert."

I shift around so I can look at him. Kai is grinning like always, but the change is that this time his happiness is real.

Resting my palm against the light scruff on his jaw, I kiss him. "What's for dessert?"

"Chocolate lava cake with roasted walnuts." I pull back, eyeing him suspiciously.

"You can't cook."

"Okay, so my mom might have come round to help me but I did beat the eggs all by myself."

Kai is a certified momma's boy. Normally that would be a major turn off for me and a red flag but he's so respectful and kind towards her, that he mirrors that attitude towards every other woman in his life.

Gabi is also loverly, and I could never see her becoming a monster in law so I'm clear in that department.

Fuck. Did I just think about marrying Kai?

I nervously glance up at him. He's staring down at me.

He can't tell what I'm thinking. Right? Because that would be extremely embarrassing and I may have seen refuse in my bed.

"What's in that beautiful mind?"

"I was just thinking about a patient's cyst."

What the f**k Emery? Kai's grossed out expression says it all.

"I just mean...I wasn't thinking about you. If that's what you were implying, because I wasn't,"

"Babe relax." He pulls me closer into his chest, so I burrow myself against him, and hide from my own stupidity. "Let's eat." With a kiss in my cheek, he moves to grab the food.

I grin to myself, knowing I have the best boyfriend who saves me from my own mind.

The table is definitely the traditional romantic setting. Candles, champagne on ice but instead of red rose petals, there are green ones, delicately spread across the white linen.

"Where's the hot waiter in a tuxedo?" I quip as Kai placed a bowl of streaming hot soup in front of me.

"Am I not hot enough to be your eye candy?" My eyes take him up and down. He's definitely hot enough, his hair mused, his lips swollen from kissing me and his body clad in a smart white button down with black slacks.

I shrug. "I'll guess you'll do."

He leans down and brushes my thick hair away from my ear. "Emery, you're practically squirming in your seat. If I sunk my fingers into you right now, they would come out glistening wet, so you sure you don't want to revise your answer sweetheart?"

Fuck me.

But I don't say it out loud.

Instead I visibly gulp and force my body still to meet his heated gaze. "I'm perfectly fine as are you. Now, can we eat? I'm hungry."

To be honest, I could do without food and his nine inch c**k sunk deep inside of me instead.

"So how was work?" He's changing the topic from s*x, and yet he's gaze still looks at me like I'm stark n***d, legs spread wide for him.

"Truthfully, it was horrible. I don't know how much longer I can stay there."

"Well, I was thinking and maybe I could help you open up your own place."

"My own clinic?" The amount of money needed to do that has always made me fear even dreaming up the fantasy.

"Yeah why not? I could be an investor, and I'm sure Kiara would see it as beneficial too."

"How would that benefit her?" I don't want a handout. I'm determined on it.

Mostly because of my pride but also the commitment of it all. Kai would not only be investing in a business but in me, and so would his sister.

What if we broke up? What if I lose his investment and Kiara's?

"Kiara invests in lots of things. Some fail and others thrive, but of course she would be subjective in looking over your business plan and proposal. She would treat you as anyone else."

I chew into my bread roll thinking over his offer. The amount of people I would be able to help with my own clinic would be amazing, and there wouldn't be any horrible bosses to report to or creepy perverted colleagues.

Yet, I hate business. I hate money, thinking about it, dealing with it. I would need a partner in all of it and unfortunately I'm firmly strict about crossing business with pleasure so it rules out Kai.

"Maybe...what about that private doctor thing you mentioned?" He stills, bread dripping with soup. I frown. Does he not remember? "You know, you offered the position when we first met before giving me your entire phone like an idiot."

I can't help but laugh at the memory. As first meets come, it was truly spectacular.

"Yeah I remember but I don't think it's a good idea anymore."

"Why not?"

"Just...you'd be around my family. A lot."

"Isn't that a good thing? I want to get to know them more."

"Yeah but it'll just be really intense. I don't want them to scare you off."

"Are you telling me your entire family are vampires or something?" He smiles but it's dull.

What's up with him? He's been cagey around the topic of his family for weeks now and it's starting to get to me.

"Do they not like me?"

"What? No of course not they love you." I search his eyes and find nothing but truth.

"So what is it?"

"I just don't think it's good idea right now." I don't want to ruin our anniversary dinner so I drop the subject.

After dinner, I wash the dishes. The buzz of bush traffic outside strangely relaxes me now and the street lights casts a warm ambience inside that makes the place feel homely.

"I'm sorry." Kai whispers, his arms rounding my waist. He presses a kiss into my hair, warming my body.

"For what?"

"Being a complete d**k. If you want the job..."

"I don't want the job." Not unless he truly wanted me to have it and I can tell he doesn't. "I'm fine at the clinic for now and I'll keep searching for new ones maybe closer to New York?"

He pulls back, slightly shocked. "You want to move to New York. Really?"

We've been discussing it for a while. The only thing keeping us here are my parents and the clinic but I'm not all that close to my family. To be honest, I prefer the Romano's and living in New York has always been a dream.

"Yeah, but not straight away. We need to find a place, one where I can afford equal pay of the rent and then a job, and I need to tell my parents too."

"f**k Emery." He lifts me up, spinning me round in his arms. My soapy hands meet his face as he kisses me hard. "God, I'm so happy I met you. I'm so happy you put up with my bullshit and forgave me."

"You make me happy too Kai. More happy than I think I've ever been in my entire life."

I kiss him this time, and the passion floods through my body. He digs my back into the counter, and raises me onto the edge. I'm slightly taller than him now as he settles between my legs, hand sinking into my hair so he kiss me again.

I'm lost in him.

And it's thrilling. It's exciting. It's everything that's been missing from my life, epitomised in this one man.

"f**k me Kai," I murmur, already dragging my dress overhead and throwing it on the floor.

His shirt is ripped off, slacks shrugged down, and I hooked my toes into his boxers yanking them down. "f**k, that was sexy."

I eye his hard length, a smile playing at my lips.

"I can tell."

He smirks, dragging my panties off my legs, laughing as they get caught on my toe and then dips his head down, and down, and... "Oh my god Kai!"

My mind explodes as his tongue barrels me straight into an o****m. Toes curl and nails sink into his back, breaking skin. "God," I tremble as he rises up, wiping his mouth with the his sculpted hand.

Fuck. Can you be turned on by a vein? My eyes refuse to leave his hands that are defined by the veins that ripple along them.

I clench as he unhooks my b*a with them, kneading my pale breasts with his darkened hands. "Emery," He latches onto my n****e, sucking onto the raw pink and turning it bright red.

He switches between both masterfully, purposefully ignoring my p***y that aches without his attention.

I grip his face between my hands, yanking him up to meet my eyes. "Kai. f**k. Me. Now."

His tongue pokes at his cheek, grinning with intent, as he stands between my splayed legs and yanks me to the edge of the counter.

My a*s meets the rough surface, just as he sinks into me. "Fuck." Eyes roll back and I clung onto him feverishly as he f***s me fast.

"Kai, up." I manage to breathe out. He helps me rise onto my elbows so I can watch him f**k him. The soles of my feet planted on his chest, his hands gripping my knees and splaying them open as he f***s me faster and faster.

Only ever six inches, never the full nine because I've only ever experience pain with that. "More, Kai." His thumb reaches down and rubs my clit.

I cry out as I clench around his c**k so suffocating that he cums inside of me instantly. My body slumps back onto the counter, chest breathing heavily, as I feel his warm c*m fill me.

He falls on top of me, and clings tight. I can feel his lips desperately kiss my temple, my cheek, my neck. "Don't leave me Emery. God, I wouldn't survive without you. Please, promise me."

Normally I would just think this was post s*x craze where we say weird stupid things, but Kai sounds like he's in despair, like I'm the only thing stopping him from drowning.

"Of course. I'll never leave you."

I kiss him passionately and open up my legs for him, so he can sink into me again and forget all his troubles.

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A/N: Thoughts on Kai in this chapter??

Next up is meeting Emery's parents??

How do you think it'll go??