Honest Love

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Authors: CM Hutton
Tags: Romance, Literature & Fiction, Contemporary
divorced.’  She was right, but more than any of that, I could see myself having a friendship with Derek for whatever reason.
    Allison poked her head in the doorway of my office.  “Hey, Derek is already here and he’s very pleasant.  Hmm, I wonder why?”  She winked and made a sassy turn of her hips as she strutted back toward the front desk, not giving me a chance to respond.
    I smiled, took a deep breath and walked to the waiting room door.  “Derek?  Come on back.”  He smiled and stood with his crutches.  I was in trouble. 
    I enjoyed the feeling of finding someone attractive—of noticing someone.  But it scared me too.  I needed to get over the fear.  It was time I take my love life back, not that Derek was interested, but it was just the fact that I was starting to notice those feelings again and they had nothing to do with Jake.  I gave a slight shake of my head at the internal conversation I was having while we walked back down the hall to my therapy room.
    “What?”  Derek saw.
    “Huh?” 
    “You just shook your head at something.”  His golden eyes were searching my face and I just stared.  His closely cut beard made his handsome features look rugged and sexy. 
    “Oh, nothing.  I was just running through some things in my head.”  Stop smiling.
    “About my knee?  You have some other exercises?”  I almost laughed out loud.  Sigh.  I missed sex.
    I held the door open and Derek hobbled through.  I worked to find an answer to his question.  When I shut the door and turned to him, I said, “I’m looking into some other treatments, but you’re not ready to start them.  We have to get all this swelling to go away first.”  It wasn’t a total lie.  I really had been working on a plan.
    “Okay.”  He looked at me suspiciously, but I just smiled and went about getting the room set up for icing his knee and working it on the CPM machine.
    “So, what did you do last night without your kids home?”  Where had that come from? 
    My back was turned so he didn’t see my furrowed brows or the long, slow blink I had as my lonely night flashed through my head.  Way to pour cold water on my happy, warm thoughts, Derek.  I tried not to let my shoulders slump at the reminder.  It wasn’t his fault.  His question was innocent.  It just stung.  “Not much.”  I started answering before I moved back to the exam table he was sitting on.  “Just a nice quiet evening to myself.”
    “Oh yeah?  Nice.”  He sat quietly as I place his knee into the ice bath I’d made. 
    He winced.  “Sorry, I know it’s cold, but we need to get the swelling down.”
    “It’s okay.  I’ve done this plenty of times.” 
    “I’m sure you have…especially with this particular injury.  Still, ice baths are no fun.”
    I stepped away to write the time in my notes and silence took over the room until Derek said, “I have a confession.” 
    “Really?  Do I want to hear this confession? Were you doing something illegal when you re-injured yourself?”  I laughed and he did too.
    “No, nothing like that .”  He paused.  “I asked Melissa about you.”  I stiffened, the smile gone from my face.
    “She told me a little about you.  Actually, she told me I’d better get my shit in check and be nice to you.”  I looked up to see him smirking and I relaxed.
    “Is that right?”
    “Yes, she said she’d kick my ass out of here if I was anything other than a gentleman.  I think she means it.  Melissa can be one mean lady.  Scares me…always has.”  Derek laughed and it made me smile.  He was a much more handsome man when he was happy.
    “What else did she tell you?”
    “Enough.”
    “Hmm.”
    “Look, she told me plenty.  And this ex-husband of yours sounds like a real piece of work…sort of like my ex.”  The last part of his statement was quiet.
    “Well, I have a confession, Melissa told…”
    “I know,” he interrupted.  “She told you about

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