Chapter 8
Previously on "Lawyer Chandler":
His breath on my lips made me loose my mind and all I could do was wait, to see what he was up to.
Vincent POV
I didn´t know what to do because I was afraid that she would reject me, if I came closer.
If she wanted that, us, too, she would have to take the last step. She moved closer until our noses touched:" Vincent…I… I …!" she mumbled, stuttered nervously.
I couldn´t stand being so close to her anymore without kissing her and so I made the final step and kissed her plump, sweet pink lips.
She kissed me back and after a few seconds I pulled away to look into her eyes. We could tell, that the other wanted more and this time she leaned in to kiss me.
What started out so softly became passionate and our tongues touched, caressing each others.
This time she pulled away and a single tear escaped her eye, running down her cheek. I wiped it away softly. "Catherine, why do you cry?"
"I can´t do that!" she whispered, gazing deeply into my eyes.
Catherine took a step back and turned around to leave but I needed answers and so I caught her wrist and pulled her back.
"Why?" I simply asked.
"I better go now! Good night!" she said and walked away to the guest bedroom.
She needed time and I was willing to give her that, willing to wait, until she would be ready to start a relationship with me.
I headed towards the bathroom to take a shower.
Catherines POV
The kiss was the only thing I could think of and I replayed it in my head countless times while I stared at the ceiling.
What have I done!? This whole situation scared me, because neither did I know, whether I was in love with Vincent, for sure, nor did I know, how to feel about Manuel.
Vincents intention was clear, when he tried to kiss me, I could feel, that he liked me, and kissing him felt so new, different, exciting, that I felt unbelievably happy but also scared at the same time.
I wanted that, us, something new, a person, who I could trust, someone, who wouldn´t betray me and deep down in my soul I knew, that someone like Vincent would help me to have faith into love again.
Was this kiss a mistake? No! Would I want to keep things simple with Vincent, stay friends? I don't know.
All I knew was, that I needed a way to figure things out, before it was too late.
But for now I needed to use the time left, to sleep, though my love- life mattered to me, Tess would need me concentrated at tomorrows case.
Vincents POV.
Even before our first kiss I had the desire to be close to her, caress her, touch her, kiss her, but now that I knew how amazing it felt, all I wanted was to understand her motives, fears, feelings.
I didn´t belive in love at first sight, at least not until I met Catherine.
The next morning I woke up very early and immediately remembered, that it was my first day back at work.
After I got dressed, I peeked into the guestroom and found Catherine lying on her side, a photo in her hand. I took a closer look, only to see that it was an old photograph of me, about 4 years ago, at the beach of Hawaii.
She must have found it on the bookshelf and it made me smile, that she took it.
That must have meant something, right?
Before I would wake her up, I left the room.
Catherines POV
I woke up to the sound of my phone, unlocked it and read all the 10 messages I got from Tess. Of coarse! She was waiting for me and I just slept in, a faux pas, considering the importance of todays case.
'Catherine! Where are you?'; 'Are you alright?; 'We are waiting for you!';
´Seriously, I´m gonna call the police, if you don´t text me in the next ten minutes!´
said the last message and I quickly texted her back.
I got up from the bed and left the foto back. Being here at his place made me feel like a teenager again, who had his first crush.
Taking the picture wasn´t an option, since it was private and I didn´t want to betray his trust.
When I went to the kitchen for coffee, Vincent was already gone but he had placed a note for me on the counter.
`Good morning, Catherine! I hope you slept well. We need to talk, about last night. The kiss felt incredible to me and I need to know if we are on the same therms, I need to know, what it means to you! Don't wait for me, I´ll be back at 9 pm, but I hope to see you afterwards. V!`
His choice of words surprised me, the guys I knew didn´t usually talk like that about his feelings. But he was right, we needed to talk, because now I knew, how I would decide.
Vicents POV
People seriously tend to forget, how stressful work can be, when they take a break from it, like I did.
JT interrupted me at lunch time and encouraged me to at least eat something.
"Hey dude, how are you?" JT asked curiously.
"Hey fine, and you?" I said, biting into my turkey- avocado sandwich.
"So, have you been able to talk to your lawyer lately?" he joked.
"Actually, she slept at my place last night." I smiled.
"She did what?" JT looked like he was about to get a heart attack.
"She did! She had some trouble with Manuel. You know, he cheated on her, she didn´t know, where to go- ."
"Did you, uuhm…, you know…?!" JT was really cute, when he tried to talk about that.
"Did we have sex?" I said what he had on his mind. "No, but, she kissed me." That wasn´t exactly, how it happened, but JT didn´t need to know.
"So, how exactly did that happen?" he asked.
"You want to hear it? Ok, so here it goes." I told him about everything, including the incident with Manuel.
It felt good to talk to someone about it, especially, if this someone was JT. We grew up together and he knew me like no one else did.
Catherines POV.
Today was a very long day, Tess and I were in court for several hours but my mind kept travelling to my issue with Manuel and Vincent.
I had to talk to Manuel, when I went back to our apartment and I wanted to talk to Vincent, but the decision I would make at the end of the day would be final, and that scared me a lot.
After Tess told me to leave her alone with the case, probably, because she saw, how distracted I was, I went straight home to Manuel.
When I entered the hallway of our floor, a neighbour of us stood in her doorframe and stared at our front door. When she saw me she faced me and had a confused look on her face. "When you are here, who is in there?" she asked me. At first I didn´t quite get the question until I heard someone m***, a woman obviously. With the walls thin as paper I didn´t wonder, that the neighbours became curious already.
She waited for an answer but I simply opened the door, only to see Manuel and Sarah, n***, on our counter. I would have started laughing and this scene would have been pretty funny, if I hadn´t been involved.
The woman behind me gasped and turned around, leaving me alone in this awkward situation.
The expression on Manuels face was priceless but right now I didn´t care. My hopes of reconnecting with him vanished, I shut the door and left.
I was angry as hell but somehow also relieved, because the decision I feared, was no decision no more.
With my apartment occupied and Vincent at work, the only place I could go was Tess apartement.
With all this anger boiling inside of me, it surely wasn´t a good idea to drive, but I did though.
I drove faster than usual, to get away from all of this, came to a crossrode, didn´t pay attention and just saw the lights of a truck being too close to the right side of my car.
Vincent POV
I was in the kitchen preparing dinner when my telephone rang, an associate from the hospital in the line.
"Am I talking to Vincent Keller?"
"What happened?"
I couldn´t think about any reason, why the hospital would call me.
"I recommend you come to the hospital and quick.
Catherine Chandler was admitted thirty minutes ago and a Miss Vargas told us to call you!"
"Thank you!" I whispered and ended the call. "Oh god, Catherine! What happened to you?!"
In no time I grabbed my stuff and left the house.
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