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“Asshole.” I muttered. But when I got up to leave, Kid pulled me back and I felt myself engulfed in the iron cage that was his body. I squirmed to get out of his grip. “Go fuck yourself, Kid Harding.”
“How about you fuck me instead?” He whispered against my ear.
“Let me go, Kid.”
“No.”
“I’m not gonna ask again.”
“Good.”
“If Jack comes by and sees us…” I offered the lie as my last line of defense.
“Don’t mess with me, Liddy. Not on this one.” The eyes that held mine were no longer laughing. They were demanding, dangerous, and filled with a kind of dark resolve that made me shiver. “There’s no goddamn Jack.”
“How do you know?” I pushed against him to stand on my own.
“I know because I know you.”
“You don’t. You might think you do, but you don’t. Not anymore.”
Kid kept on talking like he hadn’t heard me. “And since you’ve been back, I’ve been watching you. I know everyone you see, everything you do, and everywhere you go.”
“That makes you sound like the head ringmaster in a very bad creep show, Kid.”
“It makes me sound just fine. It makes me sound exactly what it should make me sound like.”
“A stalker?” I shot out.
“A man watching out for his woman.” He shot back.
“Your woman?”
“Damn right.”
And suddenly it was déjà vu all over again and that old familiar song started playing in my head. And there it was, that feeling of spinning out of control, that feeling of losing my balance. I knew that if I wasn’t real careful, that if I didn’t keep my eye on something solid, I was going to fall.
“This is ourhere we go againmoment.” I shook my head as if warding off a spell.
“Our what?”
“Me and you.” I bit my lower lip as I searched for the right words. “We always start and stop at the same place, Kid. I can’t believe it’s happening again. I can’t believe I’m about to let it happen again.”
He raised a puzzled eyebrow which once again I called bullshit on becauseIknew thatheknew exactly what I was talking about.
“ Don’t look at me like that, you know exactly what I mean. Despite hundreds of miles and a damn long time, in about five minutes we are gonna end up on the floor, or the kitchen table, or the bedroom going at it like two jungle cats in heat.”
“Why wait five minutes?” Kid’s eyes shot right to my boobs. My traitorous nipples pebbled and poked out in response. When he reached out to grab me, I slapped his hand away.
“You didn’t let me finish.”
“Oh, baby. We’re gonna finish alright.” He smirked in a way that stopped me cold. Because like I said, I knew exactly where this was heading and if I didn’t stop it fast, it could be the death of me.
“I’m serious, Kid.” I waved his advances away and stood firm. “You can’t just show up after all this time and decide that tonight is gonna be the night. It isn’t as simple as that.”
“This can be as simple or as complicated as we want it to be. I go for simple to start.” Kid countered. “We are both consenting adults. But if you’re gonna sit there and tell me you aren’t interested any more, then that’s another story.”
“I’ll probably always be interested.” I sighed in resignation. “That’s the problem.”
