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“Now that’s what I remember,” Will stated sliding his arm around her waist as they moved through the crowd together. “That little squeal when the water hit you. I think the last time we were here you ducked down, you were sitting in front of me, and Jess was in front of you, and you ducked.”
“You got soaked and then on our way off it you purposely held me up on that bridge and got me soaked.”
“That was a good day…then you had to go ruin things by getting married.”
“Yeah,” she said looking away as her smile dimmed.
“Is everything okay with you and Scott? The last few months the two of you haven’t been as close it seems.”
“I don’t know…growing pains I guess.”
“Is that it? You can talk to me Liv…what’s going on?”
“Scott’s just been a bit distant since he got hurt. Well, even before that I guess, but it’s the job I think. He’s not used to constantly staying in one place and maybe it’s just getting to him a bit,” she suggested knowing she couldn’t tell him how distant he’d become from the man she’d started dating.
“Well, tell me to butt out if you want but…why did the two of you get married so quickly?” he asked finally voicing one of the questions he’d had for a while.
“It was the thing to do, I guess. We met, started dating, fell in love…”
“Got married. Alright, answer this one if you will…do you still love him?”
“Of course, I do Will,” she said forcing the untrue words out of her mouth. “I’m just worried something will happen and where that’ll leave me. When he was undercover, I didn’t see the daily part of it, but now it’s a bit much.”
“But you’re staying with him? The two of you are still happy together?” he asked, hoping the answer was no.
“Absolutely,” she lied, as she drug him to the ring toss. “Let’s see if you still have the magic touch.”
“You asked for it, Livy,” he stated paying for the bucket of rings. He started tossing them and shook his head when they all bounced off. “This is harder than I remembered…”
She couldn’t stop laughing as he nearly emptied the bucket.
“Here last one,” he said handing it to her. “You try…”
“How about together?” she said moving in front of him as he took a step back. She knew it was crazy, but she wanted to feel his closeness again, remember her life before she met Scott. His hand slipped over hers and he wrapped his other arm around her waist as they turned to the bottles and tossed the ring.
She heard it clink against the glass and her jaw dropped open when it settled around the lip of a bottle. “No way…”
“Congratulations…you can pick any of the ones up here,” the teenager said pointing to the stuffed animals.
“Which one Livy?” he asked deferring to her.
“Take a guess,” she told him with a grin.
“She’ll take the bunny,” he said spying it.
“Last one, enjoy,” the guy stated getting it down. He handed it over, and Will took it before presenting it to her.
“Thank you,” she said holding onto it as they made their way back towards the front of the park. She changed back into her regular clothes sure the camisole would dry fairly quickly and not show through her top. When they reached the parking lot at work she looked at the stuff then back at him, “Think you could hold onto this for me? I don’t think Scott would be too thrilled to find out I skipped out of work and went there with you.”
“He’ll be waiting at my place for you to visit,” he promised kissing her temple as she got out. “See you later Livy.”
“Night Will,” she stated wishing she could go with him, but she had to go home to Scott. “Life sucks sometimes…”
Chapter 5
Olivia walked into the ballroom of the hotel spying Will almost instantly and wished she were alone instead of having Scott beside her, but he’d refused to let her come by herself. He didn’t want to be here, but he wouldn’t let her come enjoy herself either.
It’d been six weeks since she and Will had snuck off to the amusement park, six strangely odd weeks where he made her feel incredibly important, more than usual even.
