"Bronagh?" The nurse asked me when I stopped in front of her.
I nodded my head then chewed on my lip when she looked over my shoulder. "Family or partners only-"
"I'm her boyfriend," Dominic cut the woman off.
I blushed while the nurse smiled and nodded her head and gestured me into the triage room. I moved inside and sat on the examination table. The nurse looked at the hand I was cradling and made a face.
"That looks painful."
"It is," I assured her.
"How did this happen?" she asked.
Dominic lowered his head behind her while I shrugged and said, "I punched a lad who told me I was fat and said I needed to go on a diet."
Dominic snapped his head up and stared at me from behind the nurse; I kept a straight face and looked at the nurse. "I don't usually act that way but the lad really hurt me feelin's."
I directed the last part of my sentence at Dominic making him frown.
The nurse shook her head. "I hope you hit the little shite hard enough to bruise. That is a disgustin' thing to say to a person!"
Go nurse!
I nodded my head to her. "I think I hurt him."
"You did," Dominic mouthed to me and rubbed the back of his head, wincing, making me bite my lip so I wouldn't smile.
The nurse went about examining my hand, apologising every time I winced, groaned, and just plain screeched.
"I'll book you in for X-Rays before you can see a doctor. You can tell from the waitin' room that we're pretty busy tonight. Our waitin' time right now is seven hours; it will be another two or three hours after you get seen before you can go home, okay?"
Guess I wouldn't be going to school tomorrow.
"Yeah, that's fine, thank you. Me sister is on her way so she will stay with me-"
"I'm staying with you; Branna can argue with me all she wants, but I'm not going anywhere," Dominic cut me off.
I raised my eyebrows at him while the nurse beamed in his direction.
"That's very sweet of you to stay with your girlfriend."
I was about to say Dominic wasn't my boyfriend when he smiled back at the nurse, and I forgot about what I was thinking. His dimples were standing at attention, and I couldn't not look at them.
I came to grips at that moment that his dimples were a huge weakness of mine which was crazy because holes in someone's face shouldn't be so bloody attractive! I continued to look at Dominic while the nurse put my hand and arm in a sling and tied it off around my neck. He was watching what her hands were doing to me for a moment before he looked up at my face and found me looking at him.
I knew I was here because he had ruined my date with Gavin and any chance of a relationship with him, and I was mad about that but as much as I said I hated him, I couldn't force the feeling when it didn't exist. It existed at some stage but not anymore. Sure, he pissed me off something fierce, but I didn't hate him. We didn't see eye to eye on pretty much everything, but his persistence in wanting me was slowly but surely making me overlook the fact that we were probably the worst match. And having him in my life goes against everything I've ever built up about keeping people out. He was a risk and instead of shutting the idea down again, I was actually contemplating on whether to take the risk.
Holy shite.
"What are you thinking about?" Dominic asked me while the nurse was out getting me some painkillers and a slip for me to hold for my X-Ray when my name was called later.
"I'm thinkin' that you're dangerous, and that havin' you in me life would be doin' what Branna always wanted me to do, open up to someone. You're a risk that I'm thinkin' of takin'."
Dominic stared at me for a moment before he stepped forward and moved himself between my legs. "You want me?" he whispered.
I swallowed my pride. "You have to work on not makin' me so mad but yeah, I want you."
He cupped my cheeks with his hands and strummed his thumbs up and down.
"I'm not sayin' I'll be your girlfriend right away, I'm sayin' that I'm open to the idea."
He raised an eyebrow. "So I'm on a trial basis with you?"
I nodded. "Exactly, I just want to feel out how this could work with us before I put a title on us, is that okay with you?"
"Can I kiss you whenever I want?" he asked.
I rolled my eyes at him. "No kissin' in school because I'm not ready to deal with any of that drama, especially after what happened with Destiny, but in private? Sure."
"I'm fine with it then."
With that said, Dominic crushed his mouth to mine and forced his tongue into my mouth, making me gasp and grip his arm with my good hand.
I barely had a chance to kiss him back because suddenly his body and mouth weren't pressed against mine anymore. I opened my eyes and found he was across the room with a female on top of him, swinging her fists down on him.
The female was my sister, and she was beating the shite out of him.
Fuck!
"Are you sure you don't want to press charges, sweetie?"
I shook my head and scrubbed my face with my good hand while the female Garda asked Dominic the same question for the fifth time. She was young, twenty-five at the most, and was smiling and nodding her head at him every time he spoke, then cooing over him like the new nurse was when he winced over the needle digging into him while she stitched the cut under his eye that Branna's ring caused when she socked him.
"He already told you he doesn't want to press charges against me sister, why are you being so repetitive?" I asked the Garda, the snarl in my voice not going amiss.