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with a psychology degree, so this is a little out of my ideal field.” That bit of news piqued his interest, he knew that there was more to this woman than met the eye.
“So, do you always go around getting poor, helpless women to buy your coffee for you?” Kate switched topics on him again, but since she was giving him a dazzling grin he decided to let it slide.
“Well, law school was expensive, so I have to get someone to finance my life,” he grinned back, amused at the look of exasperation on her face at his response.
“No, I’m just kidding. You are actually the first woman to ever buy me coffee. You should feel quite honored.” He reassured her.
“So lucky.” Kate rolled her eyes and he laughed.
“See, the secret trick is that now I owe you, so it would only be the proper thing to pay you back. Say Friday night? Dinner?” Derrick looked at her hopefully, mentally begging her to say yes.
He had to see her again.
“Oh, is that how it works, huh? Quite the scheme you have going there, Romeo. And tomorrow night? So bold, how do you know I don’t already have plans?” Kate teased him, sidestepping his question.
“Of course you have plans, you are going to dinner with me.” He tried to sound confident, pretty sure that he was pulling it off.
She let a few pauses go by and he felt a little nervous that she might say no, but then she smiled and agreed. Within a few minutes, they had reached her work building and exchanged phone numbers before he watched her walk away from him through the glass doors.
Grinning to himself, feeling as if he had an extra surge of energy in him, he turned to head back the way that they had come. He was hoping he could manage to hold off texting or calling Kate, because his hand was already in his pocket itching to contact her again.
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Derrick pushed a lump down his throat as he tried to focus on the road and not on the memories of Kate. The excitement he felt when he first met her only hurt now, thinking he might never feel that way again.
He might never see his Kate again.
In less than a year, she had entered his life, stolen his heart, and become his fiancé. Not a moment went by that he wasn’t amazed by it all, he didn’t deserve it and he didn’t deserve her. He wasn’t feeling self-pity or dwelling on some cynical notion, it was a fact.
In the moment that she had needed him most, when he could have been the man she deserved, he had taken the coward’s route and left her. She was broken and bruised in a hospital bed only weeks ago and he had run the opposite direction in fear.
Now, she was broken again or worse, at the hands of the same man who had put her in that hospital room the first time. If he was so lucky as to be able to find her alive, he wasn’t ever going to make that mistake again. He would never leave her again and he would spend the rest of his life trying to become the man she deserved.
An approaching sign revealed the entrance to Fallen Oaks Stable coming up on the right, causing Derrick to break out of his thoughts and turn Frank’s car down the dirt road. He slowed down and carefully maneuvered the small trail, hoping to cause the least amount of disturbance to be able to arrive undetected.
As he was coming up to the end of the tree lines that currently surrounded him, he spotted the stable ahead with the car Annie had been driving blatantly displayed out front. He quickly pulled the sedan to the side of the road and turned it off.
Derrick climbed out of the car and took off quickly, but quietly, through the trees to come around to the back of the stable. He hoped that by leaving the car out of sight and approaching from the back, he would be able to have an advantage over whatever he would encounter inside.
His stomach was knotted in fear, but not for himself, for his girls. Kate could be in there, and he knew Annie was. He loved them both, they were his family now.
He had to protect them.
He finally
“So, do you always go around getting poor, helpless women to buy your coffee for you?” Kate switched topics on him again, but since she was giving him a dazzling grin he decided to let it slide.
“Well, law school was expensive, so I have to get someone to finance my life,” he grinned back, amused at the look of exasperation on her face at his response.
“No, I’m just kidding. You are actually the first woman to ever buy me coffee. You should feel quite honored.” He reassured her.
“So lucky.” Kate rolled her eyes and he laughed.
“See, the secret trick is that now I owe you, so it would only be the proper thing to pay you back. Say Friday night? Dinner?” Derrick looked at her hopefully, mentally begging her to say yes.
He had to see her again.
“Oh, is that how it works, huh? Quite the scheme you have going there, Romeo. And tomorrow night? So bold, how do you know I don’t already have plans?” Kate teased him, sidestepping his question.
“Of course you have plans, you are going to dinner with me.” He tried to sound confident, pretty sure that he was pulling it off.
She let a few pauses go by and he felt a little nervous that she might say no, but then she smiled and agreed. Within a few minutes, they had reached her work building and exchanged phone numbers before he watched her walk away from him through the glass doors.
Grinning to himself, feeling as if he had an extra surge of energy in him, he turned to head back the way that they had come. He was hoping he could manage to hold off texting or calling Kate, because his hand was already in his pocket itching to contact her again.
~~~~~~
Derrick pushed a lump down his throat as he tried to focus on the road and not on the memories of Kate. The excitement he felt when he first met her only hurt now, thinking he might never feel that way again.
He might never see his Kate again.
In less than a year, she had entered his life, stolen his heart, and become his fiancé. Not a moment went by that he wasn’t amazed by it all, he didn’t deserve it and he didn’t deserve her. He wasn’t feeling self-pity or dwelling on some cynical notion, it was a fact.
In the moment that she had needed him most, when he could have been the man she deserved, he had taken the coward’s route and left her. She was broken and bruised in a hospital bed only weeks ago and he had run the opposite direction in fear.
Now, she was broken again or worse, at the hands of the same man who had put her in that hospital room the first time. If he was so lucky as to be able to find her alive, he wasn’t ever going to make that mistake again. He would never leave her again and he would spend the rest of his life trying to become the man she deserved.
An approaching sign revealed the entrance to Fallen Oaks Stable coming up on the right, causing Derrick to break out of his thoughts and turn Frank’s car down the dirt road. He slowed down and carefully maneuvered the small trail, hoping to cause the least amount of disturbance to be able to arrive undetected.
As he was coming up to the end of the tree lines that currently surrounded him, he spotted the stable ahead with the car Annie had been driving blatantly displayed out front. He quickly pulled the sedan to the side of the road and turned it off.
Derrick climbed out of the car and took off quickly, but quietly, through the trees to come around to the back of the stable. He hoped that by leaving the car out of sight and approaching from the back, he would be able to have an advantage over whatever he would encounter inside.
His stomach was knotted in fear, but not for himself, for his girls. Kate could be in there, and he knew Annie was. He loved them both, they were his family now.
He had to protect them.
He finally
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