Amy Andrews - Waking Up With Dr Off-Limits

‘Hey, Jess, wait up.’

Jess didn’t have to look around to know it was Adam calling her. But she did anyway, powerless to resist his lure. He was also in jeans but wore a business shirt to dress them up—untucked, of course. It seemed to strike the perfect balance between casual and professional.

‘You heading home? I’ll walk with you.’

Jess nodded and they fell into step. Home was an easy ten-minute walk down the hill.

‘You heading to the Stat Bar now?’

‘Yep,’ she confirmed. ‘You going for a surf?’

Adam smiled. ‘How’d you guess?’ They walked in silence for a few moments. ‘Did I notice on the calendar that it’s your birthday in a couple of days?’

Jess nodded. ‘Sure is.’

‘Are you having a shindig?’

Jess shook her head. ‘Nah. I’m going home for the weekend so no doubt Mum and Gran will throw a little party for me.’

‘Oh, come on,’ Adam cajoled. ‘I didn’t think you girls needed an excuse to throw a party. It’s your birthday. You can’t just do nothing. Besides, I feel like a party.’

Jess looked at him. ‘Really?’ She wondered if she’d be so bold as to ask him for a birthday kiss? ‘Well, I guess …’

‘Good. That does it then.’ He grinned. ‘Get the girls to spread the word.’

Jess rolled her eyes. ‘Yes, sir.’

Adam chuckled. ‘So how old are you going to be?’

Jess took an internal breath. ‘Twenty-four,’ she murmured.

He slapped his forehead theatrically to cover the internal groan as she gave voice to the paltry number. ‘Still a baby,’ he teased.

Jess opened her mouth to object at the unfairness of his statement. To say, no, not a baby. A woman. A fully fledged woman with a woman’s desires. But a car beeped as they waited for the lights to change at an intersection and people crowded all around them, also waiting for the green flashing man.

It was hardly the kind of thing you said to someone surrounded by a bunch of strangers.

She wished she didn’t look so young. That she could add ten years. Hell, she wished she could add one or two. She didn’t want to be twelve years younger than him. She didn’t want him to think of her as some young girl with a silly crush.

As a baby.

Maybe it was time she showed him she was all grown up?

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