Bedmates Soulmates
CHAPTER 382

Giana was right; the most beautiful three little words in the world were not "I love you,' but 'I am here.' She scooted over the bed towards Austyn, intending to give him a hug "Thank you, my husband. 1-Ah!!

""What's wrong?"

Kira grimaced. 'I think 1 just pulled a muscle.

Austyn smirked. "There, your superstitious tear is realised. Something bad happened. Now can you stop freaking out about it??

Kira pulled a face

Must he kick her while she was down?

Austyn petted her head. "Go and get washed up. I'll apply the ointment on you

'Okay,"

Austyn was already dressed.

After Kira came out of the shower, Austyn

He looked just as handsome in a suit and a tie as he did in a military uniform, though in a different way.

he stubble on his face was gone.

The

There was a faint trace of cologne.

He stood with one hand stuck in his pants pocket, looking like he'd just stepped out of a photo shoot for the cover

He held the tube of ointment with the other hand and beckoned to her. 'Come here.'

'Could you not summon me like a dog? Kira thought as she approached..

She sat down on the sofa, held out her right arm and let Austyn rub ointment on the bruise.

'I'll drive you to the office after breakfast,' he said.

of GQ magazine.

When Kira was about to speak, he pre-empted her objection. "Don't argue. It's faster than taking the bus, and you save your two-dollar bus fare. Besides, not many people get to be chauffeured around by me. You're getting the VIP treatment. What's there to object?' "I didn't say I was going to object."

Kira called Paul yesterday.

She still had three days left on her supposed 'sick leave, but her arm no longer hurt and she didn't want to just lay around the house. Paul said she could come back any time.

'You didn't need to say it with your mouth. I saw it in your eyes."

'So you're a mind reader now?" Kira thought, keeping quiet.

When he was done, he patted her head. "Go and get changed. Then come downstairs for breakfast,'

"Okay."

Kira watched Austyn leave the bedroom.

He had long, powerful legs.

He'd used his indoor voice this morning.

He rubbed ointment on her and offered to drive her to work

It was as if the fight two nights ago never happened.

Kira marvelled at the man's ability to compartmentalise.

It was as if he set a timer in his head for the amount of time he was allowed to be angry.

Once the time was up, he immediately dismissed that emotion and went back to business a

It was never easy

Kira thought she could learn something from the

her to let go of emotions like that.

man.

as usual.

Kira's right eyelid was still twitching after breakfast.

Austyn had gone to the garage to get the car

Elsie saw Kira muttering to hersell.

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"Is something wrong?

Kira told her about the misbehaving eyelid.

The housekeeper laughed.

'Come on, Young Madam. Even an old woman like me doesn't believe in stuff like this. It's just superstition. You and Young Ma patched things up. The sun is out. The birds are chirping. The grass is green. How could anything bad happen on a brilliant day like this?"

Kira thought about it and decided that Elsie was right.

The twitching eyelid was probably due to a lack of sleep last night.

After she put back the photograph, she'd tossed and turned for quite a while before finally drifting off.

"Thanks, Elsie'

Kira hoisted her bag over her shoulder and bounded down the steps.

She had been away from the office for the better part of a week.

Work must be piling up.

She had more important things to worry about.

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As for Liam...

Kira dismissed him out of her mind.

Whatever happened between Liam and Austyn was none of her business.

She just needed to play the role of Mrs McCarthy well.

And Deborah....

That was in the past as well.

Kira couldn't deny that she was developing feelings for Austyn, but her plan to divorce him in a year had not changed.

Since they would go their separate ways eventually, Austyn had the right to love whomever he chose.

A year was just 52 weeks, 365 days.

It would soon pass.

Austyn was in the driver's seat of the Hummer.

He gaus

gave a short blast of the horn.

'Coming!' Kira closed the door behind her.

Bob Dylan's voice alerted her to an incoming call.

She paused when she saw the caller ID.

'Dr Morrison. How's my dad?'

Her father's attending physician seldom called her unless something happened to Leland Hewitt.

"Miss Hewitt, relax. Your father is fine.

'ch, phew. May I know what this is about?"

Dr Morrison sounded uncertain. 'Um...'

"Whatever it is, you can tell me, Doctor, Kira said, heart in mouth.

Doctors only dragged their feet when they were about to deliver bad news.

"Well, the thing is, Mr McCarthy has instructed me to take extra care of your father. As a result, I check on him twice every day. sometimes three times. I think I may have seen someone loitering outside your father's ward." Kira's mind immediately flashed to Georgina and Helen.

"Someone? Was there one or two? Men or women?"

"One. A man."

Kira was thrown

A man?

Loitering outside her father's room?