What The Body Wants

Secret Admirer

Chapter 32  Secret Admirer

This is a veryyyyy short chapter.  I may come back to it and add to it, but right now I'm gonna leave it as is.

Chapter 32

My alarm went off at 6:00 on the dot.  I rolled over and Kevin was lying on his side with his arm wrapped around my side.  I moved his arm slowly trying not to wake him.  I got up and took my shower, brushed my teeth, and put on my comfortable sweats and a tank top and headed downstairs to make breakfast.

Kevin came downstairs just as I poured myself a cup of coffee. 

“Good morning beautiful.”

“I’m fine baby; how are you?”

“Just fine now that I’ve seen you.”

I smiled at him and fixed his plate.  I fixed him a ham, bacon and pepper jack cheese omelet with turkey bacon and two pancakes.  As soon as I put his plate on the table he was anxious to dig in.  He blessed the food and before I could say “amen” he had dug into his plate. 

He was eating nonstop like he hadn’t eaten in days.  I laughed at him, but he continued to eat until it was all gone.

“Boy, did you even taste the food?”

“Yeah it was great baby.”

“Yeah sure you did.”

Kevin just gave me that award winning smile and I just had to laugh.  Damn that boy can eat.

I headed into work, not really wanting to go, but we had some new nursing students and I needed to be there to supervise and pair one nurse with 1-2 students depending on how many showed up. I already knew this was going to be a long day.  I unlocked my office door to find two dozen pink roses on my desk.  I smiled to myself thinking how sweet Kevin was to send me flowers.  I put my things down on my desk and walked over to the flowers and smelled them.

They had the sweetest fragrance I’ve ever smelled on roses.  I picked up the card and started reading it.

My dearest Nicole,

I have longed for you to be in my arms, yet I know I cannot have you as my own.  I haven’t given up on us I want to take you away and spend every moment for the rest of my life making you happy. I have tried so hard to curtail my feelings for you, but I can’t find it in my heart to let you go.  I know you are engaged to be married soon, and your fiancé is one lucky man.  I would never intentionally hurt you or make trouble between you and your guy.  I just have to let you know I am not giving up on you being my wife.  I hope you like the roses, when I saw them they reminded me of you and just how beautiful you are.  I love you Nicole and I just want the chance to show you just how much.

 With all my love,

 Sincerely Me 

I just stood there lost in thought.  Who is this person sending me these flowers and gifts?  I really need to find out who this person is because this is starting to freak me out.  Maybe I should call Shaun and find out if it’s him.

I was standing there with my back to the door and didn’t hear anyone come in.  I didn’t even hear the door close behind me. 

I felt hands on my shoulders and I yelped turning around looking to see who it was with their hands on my scaring the absolute shit out of me. 

“Damn, what the hell?”

“Oh shit, Nikki I am so sorry, I didn’t mean to frighten you.”

“Dr. Taricone, what the hell; why are you sneaking up behind me?”

“Nikki, I wasn’t sneaking up on you, I just saw you standing there with your head down and I thought you heard me come in or at least you heard the door close.”

“Ugh no, do you think I would have screamed if I heard you come in?  I don’t think so.”

“Well I was just coming this way going to my office and like I said I saw you standing there so I just stopped to say good morning.”

“Those are some beautiful roses, no doubt from your fiancé?”

“No they are not from Kevin; I have no idea who they are from.  This is not the first time I have received flowers from this person.  I don’t know who it is and they never sign a name, it just says from Sincerely Me.”

“I just want to know who the hell it is and why can’t they come and approach me like an adult.” 

“Maybe they are a little apprehensive about approaching you.  Nikki, you are the epitome of a successful woman and you don’t apologize to anyone for you being who you are.  Perhaps they don’t want to be rejected.”

“I understand that Vincent, but how do they know if they never have tried to talk to me?”

 “I don’t know Nikki, but maybe they will make their appearance soon.”

“Well I hope so because I am getting married in a couple of months and whoever this mystery person is, they need to know that I am already spoken for so there is no hope for a relationship.”

“I know sweetheart, don’t worry it will happen.”

“So how is your day so far Dr. Taricone?”

“It’s going well and I’m sure it’s only going to get better now that you are here.”

“Dr. Taricone you are so funny.  You are always jawing about me making your day better.  As a single man, I know there are all those beautiful women chasing behind you so one little me isn’t the sunshine in your day.”

“Don’t be so sure Nikki, you never know what you are to me.”