Olivia
For four days, I’ve been helping this man and I have fallen completely and utterly in love with him. It’s been hard keeping this secret for him from his sister. She’s such a sweet girl. He told her he was on a business trip, but in reality we were held up in a luxury suite at the Four Seasons in Miami.
I held him as he shivered, I wiped his brow after his puking sessions, and I wrapped my arms around him as he slept. The chemo hit him hard. His doctor said he seemed to be especially sensitive to it.
“You don’t have to stay here with me. I can hire a nurse,” he rasped out as I ran my fingers through his hair. His head is in my lap while we watch TV.
“Nonsense. There’s no one better to take care of you than me.”
“You hardly know me, Spitfire.”
I smiled at his nickname f
