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How could I ever let her go?
We finally arrived at the trucks after another 15 minute hike. Lana stood chatting with Nathan as I loaded up my gear and stored my rifle in the cab.
I turned to Lana, trying to catch her eye, when I heard the familiar sound of static. Nathan pulled the radio from his belt and I just discern the sound of a familiar voice at the end.
“Hayden, Bucks wants you back at the fire lookout tower. He says he needs you there.” He placed the radio back in his belt opened the truck door for Lana.
Damn. I could not say no to Bucks. I had to be there.
“You can take Lana back to her car where she parked, yeah?” I did not want to leave her with anyone else, but Nathan was a good guy and I knew he would complete whatever task I asked of him.
Nathan, seeing me serious, nodded so hard I thought his head would pop off. “Good, you take her wherever she needs, you got that?”
Again the frantic nodding, he bolted around the side of the park services truck and hopped into the driver’s seat, slamming the door and starting the engine.
“Hayden.” Lana’s voice calmed the frustration brewing in my gut. My shoulders cooled, and a calm washed over me. No woman had ever held me under this control. I was craving those eyes, that smile, those soft lips, the smooth curves and thick thighs. “Thank you for saving me earlier.”
“Does it have to be the one time? What if I take you out for dinner?”
Lana worried at her bottom lip, the look on her face a storm of uncertainty and desire.
“It was perfect - well, maybe a bit less interruption.” She managed a chuckle, but it was not good enough for me. I wanted more. “Sometimes,” she continued, “The best things we need to leave as the best.”
I recognized what she was saying, but disagreed. I wanted her, I wanted all of her. In that moment we had shared, I was so close to taking her as my own, claiming her.
She stood on the tips of her toes and pressed a soft kiss to my lips. In her eyes, I could see an ocean of words left unsaid. “Goodbye, Hayden Storme. And thank you.”
The radio at my belt beeped and whistled, Buck’s voice coming through about the fire lookout tower. When I pulled the radio free, they were already driving away, Lana looking back over her shoulder, eyes piercing through my heart.
Something was different about her, and I craved everything about her. But as I stood there, the dust of Nathan’s truck fading into the setting sun, a crack shot across my soul.
I had lost her forever.
