Diamond (Rare Gems #2)(10)
“She’s made it perfectly clear that she’s not interested in us. Not that we won’t try and convince her otherwise, but for now we have to be good.” He stroked his cock, thinking about her being naked with him. “She’s lovely and oh so ready for us.”
He brushed his teeth as the water warmed up in the stall behind him. He was feeling a little weak but nothing he couldn’t handle. Thad stepped into the spray and thought about his leg and leaned down to have a look at the wound he had gotten in the accident. He nearly fell over when he saw that it was gone.
“Not healed but gone.” He closed his eyes against the sound of his voice and stood there while the water sprayed over him. He looked down twice more just to be sure, but he was right the first time, there was nothing there, no stitches, no wound and not even a scar.
Scrubbing his hair with the only shampoo he could find made him think of Diamond again. Christ, the woman was everywhere. But he remembered he was in her bath and things were bound to smell like her. He found himself taking the bar of soap to his nose more times than was necessary as he finished up. By the time he was finished scrubbing his body for the second time he knew he was going to need some help to get out and dressed. But the problem was, he was all alone and his phone was in the bedroom. What a f*cking moron he’d turned out to be.
“Hello?” He heard the voice yet couldn’t believe it for a few seconds. “Are you in here, Thad?”
“I’m in the shower.” Thad was going to triple Blair’s pay if he’d help him out of this situation and never mentioned it again. When the hand came around the curtain and turned off the water, he nearly wept. The towel being shoved in next made him want to cry like a five-year-old.
“I thought you’d call me. When Diamond heard the water turn on, she said you’d be stuck in here. After forty minutes of water running she had me come up here.” He heard the laughter. “I’m not going to repeat what she said about you, but suffice it to say, she’s not very happy with you.”
“She never is.” He wiped the towel over his chest, then wrapped it around his waist. He pushed back the curtain to find Blair in the bathroom with him, but his back was turned. He’d never been so grateful to someone in his life.
“She’s a bit on the intense side, but then all the Erickson women are. Diamond is a good nurse and knows her stuff. She said you’d be too stubborn to ask for help, and I guess she was right.” Blair handed him back a pair of boxers. “Sit on the toilet. Once you have those on I’ll help you with the rest. I like you and all but not really all that much.”
“Same here.” By the time he was completely dressed, he wanted a nap again. He also wanted to ask about his wound, but couldn’t hold his head up any longer. While he’d been in the shower with Blair, someone had made the bed, complete with fresh linens. As soon as his head hit the pillow, he was out.
Chapter 4
Diamond wasn’t having any luck finding a job. Not that she wasn’t getting offers; she was getting those, just not any she could bank on. By the time she was driving back to the house, she’d decided that she’d have to take the job back at the hospital. As much as she hated working for Talley, she needed a job more.
“Nothing yet I take it.” She looked at Grandmother and shook her head. “Something will come along, you’ll see. Why don’t you go in the dining room and I’ll bring you some lunch? You deserve a nice treat.”
She moved into the room after kissing her grandmother on the cheek. She stopped in the doorway just as she saw who was sitting there. Diamond did not want to f*ck with Thad today. Before she could back out, her grandmother pushed her the rest of the way into the room and told her to have a seat.
“Diamond didn’t have any luck finding a job today, so I invited her to have something to eat with us.” Grandmother sat a plate in front of her. “Thad was just telling me that he’s going into the office today. He was asking me about you.”
“Why?” Diamond flushed when her grandmother raised a brow at her. “I mean, why is he asking about me? I’m not doing anything with him. For him, I’m not doing anything for him.”
Thad laughed, and she felt like getting up and punching him in the face. When her grandmother stood up to answer the phone, Diamond glared at Thad.
“What are you still doing here? Your leg is perfectly fine.” He laughed as he picked up his sandwich but didn’t answer her. She pushed the plate back and glared harder.
“You do know that you’ll need your strength for me, don’t you?” She flushed deeper as she remembered what he said he was going to do to her the other day. “I’m remembering a good deal more of what I said to you, and I’m thinking you’re going to love everything. Including the nipple clamps. I ordered them for you yesterday.”
Diamond felt her nipples harden in her bra and shifted on the seat. The man was nuts if he thought she was going to play in any games with him. She started to stand up when he did as well. They were nearly touching, and he reached out and tugged her to him by cupping the back of her head.
His mouth was so close that she could see his beard coming in. She wanted to touch him, to pull him closer to her, but she was suddenly afraid to. She knew what this man was to her and had been doing her best to avoid him. Now it looked like she was going to have no choice. When he took a step back, she nearly reached for him, but she heard her grandmother coming and moved out of the way of the door for her.