Taming the Boy Next Door (2 page)

Chapter 3

Jena sipped her coffee and watched as the sun came up marking a new day.  Today was the day she took on eight interns in their quest to become the doctors of tomorrow.  She thought back to the first day she arrived here.  It seemed like an eternity, with rotations in oncology, plastic surgery and even obstetrics.  But her heart had been stolen by neurosurgery and with each passing day, she knew she had made the right decision.  As she watched the doctors and nurses rushing past her to start their day, she said a silent prayer to the gods of medicine to keep her hand steady and her mind clear as she attempted to teach what she loved.

She sat on a bench just outside the entrance of the hospital.  The sun would be in full force soon enough.  And even though it was chilly in the mornings now, she took a deep breath and let the early morning rays hit her face.  She loved to people watch and her half hour coffee session every morning gave her the chance to do that.

With her mug halfway to her mouth, she noticed the familiar car pull up in front of the hospital.  Her heart leaped into her throat. He wore a baseball cap and a hooded sweatshirt but she would know him anywhere.  She held her breath and stared.  The man had a hold on her that didn’t make sense and she wasn’t sure she could deny it much longer.

As the passenger side opened, her stomach dropped.  The exotic brunette from the night before lean
ed over to kiss his cheek as she got out.  She knew her window of time to tell him how she felt had definitely closed.

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“I’m too old for this shit. I’m buying you a car this weekend.  No way in hell I’m getting up every morning to bring you
in.”  Caleb scrubbed his hands down his face as he put the car in park.  “I have two hours to kill before work.”

“You don’t have to buy me a car.  That’s crazy.”  Andi put on her lip gloss and shut
the mirror.  “I’ll make friends soon enough.  You won’t have to drag me around.”

“Andi,”  Caleb shook his head.  “You have to be at work at six in the damn morning.  And then I have to come back here at dark thirty to pick you up.
That isn’t going to work for me.  Seriously.  This weekend.”

She laughed as she leaned in to kiss his cheek.  “You love me.”

As she got out of the car, Caleb laughed.  “Just not as much as I hate you right now.”

He watched her walk into the hospital for her first day as an intern.
  He couldn’t help his grin as his heart swelled with pride.  His sister, despite the gap in their age, had always been one of his best friends and he would give her the world if he could.

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Jena leaned against the nurse’s station organizing charts for morning rounds.  Her interns were arriving and getting to know
each other.  Movement out of the corner of her eye grabbed her attention.  She froze. 

“Dr. Turner?”  The brunette cleared her throat.  “I’m Andrea.  I am really honored to meet you.  I heard what you did for Mark Moretti and I cannot tell you how excited I am to be working with you.”

Jena shook her extended hand.  “It’s nice to meet you also.  Why don’t you go join the group and I will be with you in a few minutes.”

As Andi’s
smile dropped a little, she pulled her hair back and clipped it off her face.  Jena noticed the embroidery on the chest pocket of her lab jacket.  As Andi turned to leave, Jena reached out to stop her.

“Wait.”  She pointed at the name on her jacket.  “Allen?”

Andi smiled.  “Andrea Allen. I know we have to be professional in front of the patients but you can call me Andi.”

Jena closed the chart she was working in.  “I’m sorry.  Are you related to Caleb Allen?”

“Caleb is my brother.”  Andi laughed at the confused look on Jena’s face.  “I know, we don’t look anything alike.  Caleb’s mom died when he was a baby and his dad remarried.  A couple years later, he got me on his birthday.  My mom was born in Puerto Rico and my dad is Irish.  But they have been together forever and she’s the only mom Caleb has ever known.  I’m rambling.  Sorry.”

Jena
beamed.  “I’m sorry.  Asking that was terribly unprofessional.  Seeing the two of you together last night, well, never mind.  I just assumed…”

“Dr. Turner, never assume anything where my brother is concerned.  He’s got a huge heart but he’s just a man.  And that says a lot.”

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“Relax baby.  You are so tense tonight.”  Mackenna
whined as she crawled onto Caleb’s lap and wrapped her arms around his neck to massage his tight muscles.

“Mac,” Caleb tried to push her off his lap.  “I’m really not in the mood.”

She crouched on the floor in front of the couch and ran her hand into his lap.  Tracing the outline of his penis with her fingers, she concentrated on his apadravya piercing.  She tugged slightly and he instantly hardened. 

He grabbed her hair.  “
On your knees.”

The command excited her and she licked her lips as he pulled his pants to the floor.  The piercing clinked against her teeth and as she took him deeper, it tickled the back of her throat.  As his breath increased, she tugged the bottom of the apa with her teeth. 
His head fell back and his eyes shut.  Mackenna focused on his face. It wasn’t like him to take pleasure without giving it first.  And he had never shut his eyes before.  He shifted his stance as if he couldn’t get comfortable.  One large sigh.

“Stop.”  Caleb pulled out of her grasp.  “We can’t.”

She huffed and stood up.  “What?”

“I can’t.  I’m sorry.”  He sat down and put his head in his hands.  “I’m sorry Mac.  I can’t.
”

“I don’t understand.”  She sat next to him and turned his face so she could look him in the eye. 

“Mackenna, this isn’t working for me.  You have been really good to me.  Shit.  You were my childhood fantasy come to life.  When I saw you after all this time, it was like I was fourteen again, staring at your picture and having pretty intense dreams.”

Mackenna laughed.  “Do you remember what you said right before you asked me to prom?”

Caleb shook his head.  “I’m afraid to know.”

“You told me I was a walking wet dream.”

“Holy shit.  I’m so sorry.”  Caleb chuckled as Mackenna ran her hand up and down his arm.  “And you said no?  How could you resist an offer like that?”

“Truth was, you were the boy next door.  I used to watch you kick the soccer ball around in your yard.  You would have all the guys over and my friends and I would just giggle.  I think between Mark and Ryan, every one of my friends lost their virginity.  But you were different.”  She pulled her knees up under her and smiled at him.  “When I was in fifth grade, I wrote Mackenna Denise Allen on all my books.  And I had pictures of you all over my room with little hearts around them. You were my first crush.  And you made me laugh when we used to play hide and seek or whatever crazy shit we did.”

“Mac..”

“Caleb, let me finish. I know I’m not what
you’re looking for.  I know we aren’t in high school anymore and we can’t just go back to how it might have been.  But you’re exciting and unexpected.  You are this quiet, loveable guy when everyone is around but once that door shuts, you morph into this kinky sex God and I can’t help myself.”

He didn’t mean to laugh.  And when her face scrunched up and she chuckled, he laughed harder.  “Mac, you are great.  And some of my very best memories are of you.  Hell, all of my fantasies were a
bout you.  But my heart isn’t in this.  And I’ve tried to let this just happen naturally.  It just hasn’t.”

“I understand.  I really do. 
And I knew this would be coming.  That day we went to the hospital to see Ryan, I saw how you looked at that doctor.  You have never looked at me like that.”  When Caleb tensed, Mackenna shoved his arm.  “Even when you were peeking in my bedroom window.”

Chapter 4

Jena checked her watch for the hundredth time.  It had been a
tiring few days with the interns and a long night in the operating room. The halls were quiet except for the constant hum of the overhead fluorescents.  Her stomach rumbled.

Strong arms trapped her against the desk.  “This might help.”  Caleb whispered in her ear as he set a cup of coffee down next to her. 

Instinctively, she leaned back against him.  “Thank you.  I needed this.”

He swept her hair off her neck and placed his hands on her shoulders.  As he began to massage her tight muscles, she moaned.  It was the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.  He pressed his body against her back and she moaned again.
  His blood rushed to his groin and he shut his eyes.  She was perfect.  Soft where she should be soft and firm where she should be firm. “I never did get my birthday wish.” 

His whisper sent shivers down her spine.  “Refresh my memory.”  She leaned her head back against his chest.

He pressed his lips against her neck.  The kiss was light but sent electricity right to her core.  She moaned again. He knew he shouldn’t, but he pressed his erection into her back and she gasped. His voice was a forced whisper. “Jena.”

“
Come with me.”  Jena took his hand and led him into the file room.  This late at night, it would be empty.  Her hands shook.  She was never the aggressor in any type of relationship.  The blush on her face would give her away.  But at that exact moment, she needed his lips against hers.

“What are you doing?”  Caleb whispered as he looked around the dim room.  He pulled her into a hug and sighed.  Looking down at her, he noticed the pink in her cheeks. 
“You are so beautiful.  I need to kiss you.  If you don’t want that, you have about three seconds to tell me.”

Her smile answered for her.  Caleb tilted her head back and brushed his lips against hers.  The kiss was soft but she wanted more.  She whimpered against him and he ran his tongue over her bottom lip.  “More.” He smiled and wrapped his fingers through her hair.  The kiss deepened, his tongue roaming her mouth, memorizing every inch.  She wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled him closer.

Caleb’s head spun.  He had dreamed of this for so long and now that it was happening, he wasn’t sure he could ever stop.  His body screamed at him to take control but his heart wouldn’t listen.  He held her as she ran her hands up and down his chest and back.  Her fingers skimmed the waistband of his work out shorts and then drifted lower as she explored his body. 

“I don’t really know what I’m doing.”
  She panted as she touched his erection.

He gritted his teeth, shut his eyes and took a deep breath
as he comanded.  “More.”

She couldn’t get close enough.  Her hands were frantic and the kiss was desperate. 
She rubbed her body against him and he growled.  He couldn’t take much more if they weren’t going to finish what they started. 

Pulling out of the kiss, he stilled her hand. He was breathless.  He lifted her up and she wrapped her legs around his waist
as he backed against the wall.  He didn’t try to touch her or undress her.  The kiss may have been out of control but his hands never roamed.

Jena sighed.  Did she want him to touch her?  Here in the file room of the neurosurgery floor?  Yes.  Without a doubt.  Her body was on fire.  She had never been this close to a man.  Not on purpose and not in passion.  Her past trickled to the front of her memory but she pushed it away and slammed it shut.  His mouth was heaven.  He tasted of peppermint.  His skill was unmatched. 

Over and over, she ground her body against his. He was so hard and the thin fabric of her scrubs was hardly a barrier.  He felt so good.  A heat began building in her belly.  She bit his shoulder. 

“J.  Baby.  You have to stop.”  He tried to hold her still but she was too
far gone.  He moaned. “I will come if you keep this up.  Jena.”

She panted against his shoulder.  “Can’t. Stop.  Never. Before. Oh God.”

Caleb’s eyes flew open.  “What do you mean never?”

She came apart against him.  Her head fell back, she bit her lip and let out one long moan.  Her body shivered and she locked her legs around him. “Caleb” She whispered his name like a prayer.

“Holy shit.” He took big gulps of air trying to control himself.  Her hooded eyes met his and she smiled.   “Jena, that was the hottest thing I have ever seen in my life.”

“Oh God.  I’m so embarrassed.”  She buried her face into his neck and laughed.

“Don’t ever be embarrassed about that.  Jesus Jena.  Are you trying to kill me?”  He laughed as she tried to hide her face.  “What do you mean never, baby?”

Her blush deepened.  She mumbled into his shoulder.  “That was the first time that has ever happened with another person.”

“J, look at me.”  Caleb nudged her face with his chin.  “Look at me.”

She slowly raised her head.  “I haven’t been with anyone.  Not for a really long time. 
And I never wanted to.  That was…”  She slid down his body and reached into his shorts.  His skin was hot.  She bit her lip as she wrapped her hand around his impressive length. The metallic edge of his piercing brushed her fingers.

Caleb hissed.  His head was swimming.  He couldn’t compute what she had said with her hand down his pants.  She pumped him hard. 
His body responded with a shutter. He preferred to play rough.  Control was an addiction.  But with each stroke, he surrendered.  She tugged on his apa and his eyes rolled back.