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I blinked, took in those dark eyes. The beard. Tousled hair. Lips that–
“What?”
“It’s all inside you. Who you are. You just had to let the real Melly Harwood out to be seen.”
Fuck.
He knew. Of course he did because he was right.
Going up on my tiptoes, I kissed him. Once. Hard. Quick. Then I pulled away from his soft lips. Let them, let him go.
Spinning on my heel, I picked up Fred who still stood by the front door and glanced over my shoulder at him. “I’m not Dorothy and this isn’tTheWizard of Oz.”
In that movie, Dorothy traveled all the way to Oz to be told–spoiler!–by Glinda the Good Witch that she had the power inside her all along to return to Kansas.
I knew what was in me, therealMelly as he put it. This wasn’t Kansas and well, it didn’t make a difference if he knew the truth or not. He was leaving.
“Goodbye, Daniel. I hope you find the life you want.”
34
DANIEL
I could goto the job site and help finish up Melly’s driveway. I wanted to, but it was a dumb move. Danny’d be there. We had to work some things out but doing it in the front yard of the woman I supposedly stole from him wasn’t a good idea.
I wouldn’t stick with staying outside her house either. I’d go in and fuck her.
My dick was hard with wanting her. With wanting to do all the things we had yet to cover. The lube never got delivered. I hadn’t seen all her bra and panty sets. Or her nightgowns. And other than that quick, single suck, she hadn’t gotten her mouth on my dick. I hadn’t watched her try to take all of me down her throat.
“Fuck!” I shouted at my empty house.
So I was staying home and packing. I hadn’t gone anywhere in so long I forgot how much weird shit I needed to take. Toothbrush. Socks. Power cords. Passport. Medicines.
Why was I not eager to go? My flight left tomorrow and Sunday morning, I’d be in fucking Scotland debating whether to have the haggis or meat pie with my whisky. Without the “e.”
“Shit. That’s why.”
Melly.
The naughty nerd.
I’d had to look up theWizard of Ozreference she mentioned because I hadn’t seen the movie since Danny was little and hid behind the couch seeing the vividly green Wicked Witch of the West with her flying monkeys and I sure as hell hadn’t read the book. Who had besides Melly?
There was a side to her she kept hidden and there hadn’t been enough time to find out why. But I’d seen it and I’d liked the hell out of what I saw.
I had a feeling she had, too.
My cell rang and my heart kicked up a notch. Melly?
I frowned. Deek.
“Hey.”
“Packing?”
I stared at my things laid out on my bed. “Packing.”
“Checking to see if we’re still on for tonight. Kincaids.”
