Healing the Doctor (BWWM Interracial Romance) (12 page)

“Oh Kate! I’ve made a terrible mistake. I’ve got to go.” Hailey hit the end button on the phone, her face a blank mask. She hadn’t let Greg speak. She had attacked him and he hadn’t been able to say the words she’d been dying to hear for weeks.

“I need to sleep, Mom,” Hailey mumbled, and Mary didn’t have the heart to argue. Hailey was a grown woman and she could deal with her problems her own way, as she saw fit.

Chapter Nineteen

A week later, Hailey had immersed herself in the arrangements for the charity fundraiser. Her white dress was hanging in the closet, along with a pair of bright gold high-heeled shoes. She was trying her best to stay so busy that she didn’t have time to think about anything.

By bedtime every night, she was so exhausted that she couldn’t dwell on her misery. It was working out for her perfectly.

The morning of the fundraiser, Hailey showered and dressed. She needed to be at the hotel before the guests started arriving.

Her mother, Mary was grateful for the help, but she had grown increasingly worried about Hailey’s behavior. She seemed fine, and that was the worrying bit.

Hailey was sure she had fooled her mother into thinking she had forgotten about Greg. Her father, however, had been increasingly adamant that Greg be invited to the fundraiser. Hailey refused flat out, and even though her father was annoyed, she didn’t give him Greg’s phone number.

She was due to leave for her apartment the next day, and she had forced herself into a calm, serene mindset, where nothing could affect her.

An hour layer, she stood at the entrance of the venue, greeting guests. They were mostly middle-aged couples, along with a group or two of young attendees who seemed like they were forced by their parents to attend. Hailey was having a good time, until the sight of a strikingly familiar pair of shoulders made her pause. The man had his back turned to her, and his steel gray suit looked masculine and wonderful against a head of sandy blonde streaked hair.

Her heart seemed to stop, and then began thumping wildly, hope and childish glee spiraling through her veins. She was forced to look away as a seventy-year-old woman attempted to enter with her cane. Hailey helped her quickly and when she looked up, Greg was standing two feet away from her.

Hailey buzzed in excitement as Kate’s words came back to haunt her, the ones she had been desperately trying to avoid thinking about.

Greg told me he loved you. He said he loved you and he wanted to tell you, to bring you back.

Greg stared into her eyes, and Hailey saw love shining through, a moment before he took her hand and lifted to his lips. As his soft lips met her skin, it sent streaks of raw pleasure radiating through her body.

“What are you doing here, Greg?” Hailey whispered.

Greg glanced behind Hailey and as she turned, she saw her mother smiling at her adoringly. “Mom called you,” she said with harsh sigh, and her hope quivered and died.

“Hailey. Can I please talk to you in private?” Greg said seriously.

Hailey nodded and urged herself not to show him how disappointed she was. She was dazed and confused when Greg led her by the hand into the hotel’s lobby and up a winding staircase.

He entered a room, and Hailey stared at him in confusion. “Are you staying here?” she asked.

“Yes. Can you come in, please? I want to talk. It'll just take a couple of minutes. I promise.”

Hailey nodded and slipped into the large room. Greg locked the door behind him, and Hailey sat on one of the high backed chairs positioned next to the windows.

To her complete shock, Greg went down on one knee at her feet, and took her hand.

“What…are you doing?” she exclaimed, her face frozen in disbelief and shock.

“It’s okay, I’m not proposing,” he said and Hailey let out a sigh of relief. “But, I’m humbling myself, because I don’t deserve you Hailey. You’re smart and funny and everything I want and will ever need. I know I hurt you, but I was just too shocked by my body’s reaction to you to think clearly.”

Hailey listened and felt tears brimming behind her eyelids.

“I just want you to know that I’m so, so sorry that I left you when we slept together. I went for a run, and then I went home, and I couldn’t think straight. I shoved all of Deb's belongings into boxes that day, finally, and gave them to Goodwill. I let go Hailey. I let go of Deb, because I found you. Then, I came looking for you and you were already gone, lost to me.”

“I want you to forgive me, and to think of all the good things we shared. Don’t think of what a jerk I was to you during that time. I already know, and I’m sorry, I truly am. There’s no one like you, sweetheart. There’s no one that makes me happy but you.”

Hailey’s lip trembled and she waited desperately to hear the words that she was waiting for. Instead, Greg was acting like this was over, and she didn’t care anymore. She wanted to be with him. Every word that left his mouth proved to her that he cared about her just as much as she did about him.

Taking Greg’s hand tightly in her own, she stared into his eyes and slid her free hand along his smooth shaven cheek.

“Aren’t you going to tell me what you told Kate?” she said, her tears pouring down, her words choked sobs. “I’ve been waiting to hear you say the words ever since you brought me here, and I...”

Her words were cut short as Greg swiftly stood up and took her mouth against his.

Hailey whimpered against his mouth and clasped his tall muscular frame tightly to her body.

“I love you!” Greg hissed ferociously against Hailey’s lips. “Oh God! I love you so much Hailey!” he said again, kissing her wildly. “Please forgive me and give me one more chance.” His tongue plunged into her mouth, claiming her, and Hailey gave in to the insistent heat of his body.

Greg carried Hailey in his arms to the bed and laid her down before swiftly throwing off his suit jacket and tie. His pants followed and Hailey lay there in contentment, watching the man she loved undress unashamedly in front of her.

When Greg pulled off her dress and slid over her naked body, everything was different than the last time. The last time Hailey had been plagued by confusion, and she had not been sure of their relationship. This time her hands possessively slid over his back, hungrily clasping at his body, because she knew Greg loved her.

As if to enforce her belief, Greg slid his wet mouth to her ear. “I love you Hailey!” he breathed harshly before his hand clutched her breasts in a warm hold. Hailey moaned and spread her thighs, wrapping her long legs around Greg’s hips.

She stroked his ass, pulling him closer, urging him to slide inside her body and take her.

Greg covered her small brown nipple with his lips, and sucked like he never meant to let go. With her nipple trapped in his mouth, he positioned his cock at the entrance of her body, and plunged inside. Hailey arched her back, her breasts lifting against his lips as she welcomed the invasion of his hard throbbing manhood in her core.

She was soaked with her lust for Greg, and he savored the warm, wet feeling of her pussy sheathing his cock. He pulled out and lunged inside her again, and Hailey groaned, her head writhing on the pillow as she let the warm pleasure envelop her body.

“Hailey?” Greg whispered as he lifted his face over hers. Hailey opened her eyes drowsily as he thrust inside her body. She jerked up, her face twisted in delicious pleasure, keeping eye contact with him.

“Marry me, sweetheart,” he said and lunged hard, too hard, making her cry out from the sudden pleasure. Her eyes widened and Greg rammed into her body fiercely, as if trying to brand her with his shaft. Hailey was still reeling from the combined happiness of his sweet unexpected proposal, to the wondrous pleasure of orgasm reaching its peak in her limbs.

“Please. Marry me, Hailey,” he said again, and ground his hips into her body, circling them, making her cry out in fevered longing as her orgasm erupted.

“Yes! Yes!” she cried and tears streamed down her face in happiness and longing. Greg hungrily covered her lips with his own, pounding her body, knowing without a doubt in his mind that Hailey was forever his.

Epilogue

Four months later, Hailey was waiting outside Brandon Memorial Hospital for Greg. She had joined the hospital’s finance department two months earlier, and they had developed a routine of going back home together. For the first time in years, Greg had been able to regulate his work hours, and now took time off regularly to spend with Hailey.

Hailey twisted the ring around her finger. She smiled at the memory of the charity fundraiser four months ago, where Greg had made love to her, and then proposed.

When she had returned downstairs to the event with hastily redone hair, her father had looked slightly scandalized. However, when Mary told Jack that Greg had proposed to Hailey, her father had done the unthinkable.

Striding onto the stage, he had interrupted the proceedings of the boring event to announce very proudly that his daughter had just gotten engaged. Her father had grabbed her in a big bear hug and Hailey had burst into an uncomfortable fit of giggles at the unexpected surprise of seeing her father happy for once because of her. Greg had held her hand tightly as people offering their congratulations swarmed them.

He had driven her to Tiffany’s two days later, and told her to choose whichever ring she liked best. Hailey had been overwhelmed and after almost two hours of trying on rings had finally chosen the perfect one.

The large diamond still sparkled and shone in the fading light of dusk as Hailey looked up to see Greg striding toward her.

“Hi beautiful,” he said with a big smile, and Hailey took his arm as they walked arm in arm to his car. Greg kissed the top of Hailey’s head before opening the passenger side door for her.

“Let’s go home sweetheart,” he said before tucking her safely inside. “We’ve got a whole stack of wedding invitations to address and mail.”

Now that he’d found Hailey, Dr. Gregory Walt was at last where he needed to be.

THE END

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