Zack
When Amy texted to meet her at the hospital instead of letting me pick her up, I knew she was still keeping me at arm’s length. I told myself not to take it personally, but the sting was there anyway still, when she walked out of the hospital doors, my breath paused. Amy.
Not the tired mom I’d seen running from bar shifts or the guarded part-timer hunched over supply logs. Tonight she was… glowing. Nervous, yes, but glowing all the same.
I bit back the hundred things I wanted to say and stuck with the safest one, a simple compliment. She brushed it off with that tight laugh of hers, but I caught the flicker in her beautiful eyes that made my wolf growl in my head.
She climbed in, and I pulled into traffic, my hands too tight on the wheel. She had no f*****g idea i’d chosen the res
