Free Saved By The Doctor (BWWM Romance) by Tasha Jones, BWWM Crew

felt the heat rising to her face as she continued to pack her things up, finding herself avoiding him as much as possible. The last thing she wanted was to be confronted with the dark secrets she couldn't even repeat to herself. “Someone who says things like 'of my own accord' would be scared shitless by the stuff that's in my past,” she replied, trying to ignore the breathtaking sight of him standing up and slipping his shirt back on.
     
    He scoffed. “When will you stop underestimating me?” he murmured.
     
    Jackie could feel the frustration building up in the pit of her stomach. She felt like a claustrophobic sitting in a tiny, glass elevator car placed in the center of a crowded room. “When you stop trying to force me to be something I'm not!” She didn't know where those words came from, but as soon as they were out in the open, she couldn't help but to realize that they were what she had been thinking all along.
     
    “I don't want you to be anything but yourself!” he roared back.
     
    Jackie flinched. She didn't know whether to feel scandalized that he had just yelled at her like that, or to shove that canvas aside and mount him right then and there. Unfortunately, she went with her first instinct. “Why are you yelling at me?” she whispered, as she took the canvas off of its stand and leaned it against the edge of the roof and turned to face him, crossing her arms in front of her.
     
    He shook his head as he crossed the roof towards her. She could just tell from the shadow in his eye that he was remorseful. “I don't know. I'm sorry. It's just that even though I haven't known you for a while, I think about you almost every minute of every day. Every time I come across something funny on TV, I want to tell Laila about it. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't wonder what you're up to or how I could make you happy. But you're vicious and I'm terrified that I'm going to lose you... and I can't. I just can't lose you.” He was less than a foot away from her, but the way that he looked at her made her think that the common rules of physics could do nothing to separate the two of them. They had never been closer. “I love you, Jackie, and I'm not afraid to admit that it terrifies me because I don't know how you feel about me. I could never be sure, because you're always so closed off.”
     
    Jackie was struggling to remember to keep breathing. She could think of nothing to say, so she just kissed him. He grabbed him, but that time, it was different, like he was melting into her, like he was giving himself to her, and that was the sexiest thing of all.
     
     
     
     

Chapter Ten
    *** Two Weeks Later ***
     
    The shrill sound of the phone ringing ripped Jackie out of her deep slumber. Her eyes flashed open and the first thing she thought was, “Allan loves me,” but before she could think anything else, the sound of the phone ringing again came to her ear. She groaned, rolling over in her bed until she found it. She picked it up, answered it, and pressed it against her ear. “Hello?”
     
    “Hello, good morning, Ms. Brown. This is your wake-up call.”
     
    It was Victoria's much-too-excited voice on the other end of the line. “Hi, girl. Didn't anyone ever teach you that calling before 10 AM is just bad manners?” she replied as she swung her feet over the side of her bed and made her way to her closet to try to find something to wear.
     
    “Well, since you were supposed to be up almost an hour ago, this instance hardly qualifies,” she replied in a mock, matter-of-fact voice.
     
    Jackie continued to sift through her clothes; the weather was reaching that awkward period in the year where it was not quite warm enough, or cold enough, for anything in her closet. In the end, she settled with black pants, red pointed flats and a long sweater. “Victoria, I'm gonna be just fine. Her grandmother is at home making tea, she probably wants me to come as late as possible,” she