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It takes a lot of effort to push those words out, but I refuse to be the meek, scared girl from high school. I made that promise to myself when I graduated that I’d start saying and doing the things that normally had me balling up with anxiety.
Yes, it’s hard. And I fail. A lot. But when Felix steps forward, letting me feel the heat radiating from his rock-solid body, it feels worth it.
“If I worked with you, I’d be too distracted,” he says, moving even closer, so he could lean down and kiss me without taking another step.
“R-really?” I murmur, hating the stutter. “Why?”
“Because….”
I yell as what looks like a six-limbed creature falls to the floor next to us. My drink flies from my hand… and then Felix grabs it before it falls, the soda swilling over the edge, but the glass is saved.
He places it on a nearby table and turns, looking down at the mess.
Three men are involved in a fight, one of them yelling, fists flying.
Everybody is shouting and running around, but Felix just walks over and separates them. He does it the same way a father would separate children, andthathas my mind spinning to truly ludicrous places.
Can I really be thinking about having this man’s children the first time we met?
The men yell at each other. It seems one of them had sex with the other’s girlfriend, and the third got roped in to defend his friend.
“Enough,” Felix snaps, his voice rising. There’s this compelling quality in it that makes the men stop.
Finally, the bouncers arrive, giving Felix a chance to step back. I’m going to walk over to him – the urge to be close to him is almost too difficult to accept – when somebody touches my arm.
It’s Lexi, gawking. “What happened?”
I fill her in as quickly as I can. I have to focus, so I don’t start talking about the chemistry Felix, and I have…or the chemistry Ithinkwe have since it’s difficult to know without anything to compare it to.
When I turn back, Felix is gone.
I try not to panic.
It’s silly… he’s a stranger at a party. There’s noreasonto panic.
Or I could tell myself I’m worried because it means I may lose the job opportunity. But it’s not that. It’s Felix, what we shared. It was special, even if it was brief and even if it clearly meant nothing to him.
“Are you looking for somebody?” Lexi asks when she sees me looking around.
“Felix,” I say.
“Felix?” Lexi pauses, looking around, shaking her head. “Maybe he’s on the dance floor?”
“Maybe,” I murmur, but I can’t think about that.
Felix, on the dance floor with a woman, grinding their bodies together?
I don’t know her. She’s make-believe.
And yet the thought of Felix with anybody other than me makes me want to scream.
Where is he?
CHAPTERFOUR
Felix
“Why her?” I snap back in my car, squeezing my cell phone so hard it’s a wonder it doesn’t simply shatter in my hand. “Give me one good reason why that woman has to die.”
