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I can see the anger flashing in his eyes as he looks up at me. I want to go over there and punch him right in the mouth. He says through gritted teeth, “Have a good night, pal.”
Sheesh! What a lunatic at times.
I enter the elevator and get out to my car, making my way to Lily’s place. On the way, I stop at a convenience store and pick up a six pack and walk next door to the local pizzeria. I order a large pepperoni and cheese pizza, taking it to my car.
Back on track, I’m hoping that she’s hungry and willing to have a guest. I pull into her driveway, grabbing the pizza and beers, and tap the door with the toe of my shoe. Amazingly, she hears it and opens the door.
“Hi! It’s nice to see a friendly face,” she says, kissing me on the cheek as I walk by. The kiss warms me all over.
“I hope you’re hungry,” I say as I set the pizza and beers down on her kitchen table. “I brought food.”
“I’m starving, and thanks, but you didn’t have to do that,” she says.
“I know, but I wanted to,” I softly say to her.
While we eat pizza and drink beer, I begin to tell her about the conversation between me and James. “He just came into my office and asked how you were and how I thought about you doing your job. I told him I hadn’t talked to you and that you were doing a great job.”
“I wonder why he asked you about my job performance,” I ask, stuffing a bite of pizza in my mouth and washing it down with a swig of beer. “It’s not like he’s up for firing me, or is he?”
Her emerald eyes are like saucers as she stares at me curiously afraid.
“No, I don’t think he’s going to fire you,” I say, chewing a bite of pizza, licking the sauce from my lips. “And here’s why.”
“Yeah?” she says back, eager to know.
“He admitted he loves you,” I look at her to see her reaction.
Nothing. No sigh. No gasp or giggle, just nothing. It makes me nervous to admit my feelings for her.
“But there are issues with that. One, he wants me to back off, leaving you for him to ask you to marry him,” again, I watch to see her reaction. I only hear a slight gasp.
“And two?” she asks.
I set my beer down and wipe my hands from the pizza. Turning to face her, I take one of her hands in mine and look into her eyes. “Two is simply that I love you too. My first love, I caught in bed with my brother, so it’s been difficult for me to trust another to love me.”
“Wow, that’s pretty damned low of your brother,” she says and gulps down her beer. “Where are they now?”
I shrug my shoulders and say, “I don’t know and honestly, I don’t care. It just left a gaping wound in my heart and it has been filled with mistrust, warding people away from me.”
She removes her hand from mine and stares into the pizza for what seemed like several minutes. When she returns back to the present, her eyes are misty with tears. “I once had a love too. I was engaged.”
“Oh, that’s something I didn’t know,” I say surprised at her confession. “Not that it’s a deal breaker, or anything. What happened, if I may ask?”
She nods her head and begins, “About five years ago, I was engaged to a man named Michael. We were so in love and excited for our wedding day. A couple of days before we were to get married, he was killed in a car accident.”
“Oh, my gosh!” my hand immediately covers my mouth as I digest her words. I don’t know what I’d do if Lily were to die right now. “I’m so very sorry, what a terrible thing to have happened.”
“For a long time, I didn’t, rather couldn’t, love anyone. Until you and James. I’ve made amends with the past and I know that Michael would want me to be happy instead of living a loveless life.”
“That’s still a heartbreaking story,” I try to reassure her.
“Don’t worry about James,” she says. “He’ll come around when he figures things out.”
“Okay,” I respond, knowing that’s a dicey subject for him. “Hey, you have some sauce,” I lean in to give her a kiss, “Right here.” I lick the corner of her mouth and kiss her fully on the lips.
She returns my kiss with one of her own and my dick gets primed as our tongues do a dance inside our mouths. I reach down and grab her ass, squeezing it with my hands. It feels so good in my hands that I can’t let go.
For the next few minutes, we make our way down the hall to her bedroom, kissing and groping each other along the way. Once we get inside and remove our clothes, the sexy but sensual sides of us come out while we make sweet love together.
