Falling For The Doctor (BWWM Pregnancy Romance) by Violet Jackson Page A

and sobbing her heart out. Sherina cried with her, cuddling her close until she was spent.
    “I’m sorry Sherina. I’m sorry I betrayed you. Please forgive me.”
    “I already did,” Sherina said quietly and even as she said so, she realized the truth of her words.
    ***
    David came in later that night and Sherina grimaced when she saw him do a double-take. She had described Deb in enough unflattering terms that he recognized her immediately but evidently her new mousy appearance was as much a surprise to him as it had been to her.
    He was kind though, and thoughtful but Sherina could not help noticing that he made a point of avoiding getting too close to Deb. A part of her was glad because the last thing she needed to worry about was Deb and David, but a part of her felt weird which was why dinner was a tense affair. Tense silence reigned around the table and what little conversation they did have felt forced and unnatural.
    The moment Deb went up to bed, she turned to him and said, “Okay I know I said we hate her, but I think you need to dial down the avoidance! You’ll start her thinking I still hold a grudge.”
    He looked down at her, his dark eyes taking in the tiniest flicker of expression across her face. “You don’t hold a grudge anymore,” he observed.
    Sherina shrugged. Time had helped but David was the chief reason she was better today. “Not anymore, I don’t,” she said.
    David grinned and chucked her under the chin, “She’s been abused Legs,” was all he said before loading the dishes onto the dishwasher.
    She remembered then that a woman who had been abused was generally wary of men and she realized then that David had merely been giving Deb some space to help her feel safe.
    He had been looking out for her friend even when she didn’t deserve it. Her brown eyes clashed with his dark eyes, held; and she finally admitted to herself what she had been trying to deny all week. She loved him! She was in love with David Knight.
    ***
    “Okay I’m starting to feel like I have run your boyfriend off,” Deb observed some days later as she lay on a couch in front of the television biting into cookies and chocolate.
    Sherina grinned as she reached for a piece of chocolate herself. “A herd of bulls couldn’t run David off. The man has the audacity of a bull.”
    “And the subtlety too by the looks of things,” Deb supplied.
    “What do you mean?”
    “Come on, he only has to look at you and the room catches fire,” Deb laughed.
    Sherina looked down at her hands, unable to share in Deb’s laughter. “Why?” she said, voicing the question that had been on her mind since that night many nights ago.
    Deb didn’t pretend to misunderstand. She just shrugged one shoulder and said quietly, “I guess I’m just not a very good person. I don’t know how else to explain it.”
    “I suggest you try,” Sherina said sweetly with pure steel underlying her words.
    “I just... I failed you and I am sorry.”
    “Yes, but why?”
    “I don’t know. I let myself get too close to Darren and before I quite knew what was happening, I was crossing a line.”
    “Did you marry him?”
    “No, I never had the chance. He cheated on me with someone else and I just...I tried to talk to him about it and he hit me. So I ran. He found me last week and hit me again. I called the cops and ran again.”
    “What happened to the wedding? I saw it on Facebook just before I deleted my account.”
    Deb stared down at her hands. “I thought I was in love with him Sher. I couldn’t go through with the wedding though; I asked him to give me some more time. It didn’t feel right which was why I asked him to wait.”
    “I see.”
    “So David?” Deb asked, taking a bite of another piece of cookie.
    “I’m not comfortable talking about him with you,” Sherina said quietly, rising to her feet and clearing away the remains of their cookies.
    “I don’t expect you to trust me Sher, but please believe that I would never go