“No.”
“Yes.”
Both men answered at the same time, Jared in the affirmative and Dante with a negative. She couldn’t help but smile.
Jared opened the door and stepped through. “Let’s go, Princess,” he told Dante mockingly. “This is probably the one time in our entire lives that I can actually kick your ass. I’m taking advantage of it.”
“Only in your dreams, little brother.” Dante stressed the word “little” antagonistically as he glared at Jared’s back, but he headed for the door. Before he followed Jared, he stopped and silently looked down at her.
Sarah’s heart accelerated as he whispered in a husky voice, “We’ll finish this later. And don’t apologize for what happened. It didn’t hurt a bit.”
“It shouldn’t have happened,” she whispered back anxiously. “I’m your physician.” Her ethics were screaming at her now.
“It did happen, and it will happen again. Count on it,” Dante warned her ominously as he kissed her on the forehead and followed his brother. “Get off those feet,” he called back over his shoulder as he slowly followed his brother out to the car.
Sarah closed the door and leaned back against it, wondering what the hell had just happened.
She tried for the rest of the evening to figure out the logic for her brief interlude with Dante Sinclair, and she failed miserably, thinking maybe she needed to research all the recent data on sexual chemistry.
CHAPTER 5
One week later, Dante was restless and irritated as hell. True to his word, his brother Jared—with Grady sometimes filling in as his jailer—kept him confined to the house. He’d only seen Sarah for very brief visits, and he could tell she felt awkward. She was professional and matter-of-fact, and Dante hated it. He was desperate for another taste of the warm, passionate woman he’d discovered at her house last week.
No such thing as sexual chemistry, my ass. We were both about to go up in flames, and I wasn’t even fucking her.
His jaw clenched with impatience, and he was more than ready to give his adorable genius a few lessons on the subject of carnal pleasure. His time being idle in the hospital had been bad enough. Now being constantly inside was making him crazy. Granted, he’d liked catching up with Jared and Grady, since the brothers had seen each other so few times during their adulthood. But being stuck indoors was about to make him stir-crazy. He wasn’t used to having a spare moment to do anything. His job had always consumed him, left him almost no time to think about doing anything else.
All I can think about now is making Sarah come. His need was almost an obsession, and it got worse every damn day.
Dante’s body was healing, and he had stopped using the pain pills because he didn’t need them anymore. It still hurt like hell when he coughed too hard, but he was regaining his strength, and he wanted to spend some time outdoors.
I’m bullshitting myself. What I really want is to get my cock inside my beautiful physician and give her a taste of doing something just for pleasure.
“The week is up. I don’t need you two to babysit anymore, and I can go into the office to see a doctor when I need to be checked.” Dante looked up at Jared, who was sitting in a chair in front of his desk, doing some kind of work on the computer. “What are you doing?”
“Looking at a possible project,” Jared answered, sounding somewhat distracted.
Jared was a real estate developer and an architect. Dante knew that his brother had drafted the plans and personally helped build all of the houses on the peninsula except Grady’s. However, he rarely got all that involved in any of his projects anymore unless they were personal, which none of them really were. Jared bought, built, and sold commercial real estate to make money, not that he needed it.
“I’m going to town,” Dante informed him, getting up from the chair his ass had been warming for way too long. “You can go to your own house. Or stay here and finish. But you and Grady don’t need to be my keepers anymore.”
Jared looked up at him with a slightly wounded expression. “Look, I know you’re pissed. But we wouldn’t have been here if we weren’t worried.”
Dante knew that. “It isn’t that I don’t appreciate that you were concerned.” He shoved his hands in the pockets of his jeans, having problems saying what he really wanted to say. His brothers might be a pain in the ass sometimes, but they’d been here when they thought he really needed them. “I’m just getting tense from sitting around for too long. I need to get out. I’m doing better now.”
And I need to get laid! Unfortunately, only one woman will do.
Jared stared at him silently for a moment before releasing a masculine sigh. “I’ll go to my house. You’ll call me if you need anything?”
“Yep.” Only if I’m dying. Dante needed a little space, a little time to think. He’d spent the last week in almost constant company with his brothers. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to spend more time with them, but not if it meant they were playing nursemaid . . . or jailer. He knew Jared planned on sticking around for a while this visit, probably until Dante was ready to go back to Los Angeles.
Jared stood up and shut down the computer. “It’s senior bingo night at the youth center. I was thinking of stopping by.”
Dante released a bark of startled laughter. “You? Since when do you play bingo?”
“I don’t, and the bingo is for the seniors. But I heard Sarah was playing the piano tonight before the games start. Grady says she’s better than most concert pianists. I thought I might stop by and check her out for myself.”