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Chugging the rest of my wine, I steel my resolve and stand, smoothing my hands down the sides of my thighs.
Tucking a strand of hair behind my ear, I look up at Alex and find him watching me intently, his eyes blazing into mine – sending a chill down my spine. Some things never change.
Walking up to him slowly, we never look away from the other – the pull too great, the need too strong.
It’s been two weeks, but as I stand in front of him now, it feels as if no time has passed, and nothing wrong has happened.
All I want is for him to kiss me, touch me, call me gorgeous, and climb on the back of his Harley as we ride off into the night.
His green eyes glow in the low light of the bar, but I see them shining with emotions I never saw before. “Melanie.” His whiskey smooth voice, with just a tinge of rasp, has my eyes fluttering closed, and a pool of need flooding my body. I’ve really missed him.
Opening my eyes again, I see his have gone a shade darker, and my pulse starts to hum and race like it used to.
“You wanted to talk?” I ask, my voice shaking with all the emotions I have running through me. All the ones I’ve tamped down these past two weeks are bubbling to the surface.
“Yeah.” He nods. “Meet me around back?”
“Okay,” I tell him, and his shoulders visibly relax, like he was afraid I was coming to tell him no.
Turning away, I look over at Ally and Ash and signal that I’m going outside, and they smile encouragingly at me.
Stepping outside, the night air cools my heated skin, and I make my way around the building to the back. Flashbacks of when I first made this trip come to mind, and a ghost of a smile tilts my lips up, thinking about how forward I was with needing to kiss him. I’ve never done that before, but with Alex, I knew I needed to, and I don’t regret it for a second.
No matter what happens, I don’t regret my time with him.
I make the turn around to the back, making sure to watch my step when the grass turns to gravel, and I see him there, half in the shadows like I first did all those weeks ago.
His cigarette glows in the darkness as he takes a long drag, and then smoke billows out from his lips, clouding his face for a few moments.
When I’m a few steps from him, he flicks the butt to the ground and grinds it out with the toe of his boot.
My eyes focus on his mouth, his perfect lips. I know how they’d taste right now, and my mouth waters, my body needing its long-awaited fix. Needing to take a long drag from his lungs.
But I can’t. I won’t.
“Mel,” he says, his voice low and deep.
“Huh?” I answer, finally pulling my eyes away from his mouth and up to his.
“I’ve missed you,” he admits, like it was hard for him to even say those words.
“Me, too,” I whisper, nervous.
“I just let you leave,” he breathes out, running a hand through his raven locks.
“You did.” I nod. “Why?”
“Because you made up your mind about me. That look in your eyes… I’ve seen it in everyone before. But I never wanted you to look at me like that.”
“Then why did you let that woman put her hands all over you?”
“Mel, she was just someone I used to–”
“Fuck?” I finish for him, not wanting to hear this, but knowing I need to.
“Yes,” he sighs, looking guilty. “But I haven’t seen her in a very long time. Years, actually. She was in town visiting her brother, and she came to the bar to say hi.”
“Yeah, that’s all she wanted to do,” I say, hugging my arms around my middle.
