Chapter 9. ­­Smartass

I was speechless with shock, so much that I couldn’t even get my breath back enough to say goodbye to the handsome doctor.

Just what in the hell was this man thinking? I couldn’t even comprehend the amount of things that had been wrong in that statement he had uttered to the doctor.

First the words themselves.. What did it mean that I was staying here the entire week? How was that in any way, reality or fantasy even possible?

His reality, probably my forbidden fantasy but I didn’t want to go into that. I was embarrassed of my own behavior.

I didn’t know him, he didn’t know me. We didn’t know each other.

And the way he had said it, so casually to the good doctor. As if..

As if..

My imagination led on from there..

As if I lived here regularly, as if being here was a common thing.

As if I belonged in this home, as if I belonged in his bed, as if I belonged in his life.

As if we were lovers and had been for