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It doesn’t matter if she doesn’t, I just want her to know how I feel. To remind her that, even though I haven’t seen her in over a week, it’s because I’m respecting her wishes and not because I want to.
If it were up to me, I’d be at her place now.
I’m staring sightlessly across the bar, completely caught up in the drunken swirl of thoughts and feelings chaotically rushing through my brain, when someone taps me on the shoulder.
I turn and come face to face with Nera. Her eyes clock my level of intoxication as they move from me to my freshly poured drink.
I look over her shoulder and notice a man watching us in a booth. He must be who she’s with. He looks pretty familiar although my drunken state keeps me from being able to place him right away.
“How are you, Rhys?”
My eyes move back to meet hers. “Fine. How is she doing?” I ask her, hungry for any information about Thayer.
The corner of her lips pull up. “She might kill me for saying this, but about as well as you seem to be doing.”
I hate hearing that she’s in pain, but I love knowing that she’s not moving on. That she at least misses me, misses us.
There’s a hint of pleading in my tone when I speak next. “Tell me what I need to do to make her forgive me.”
“She’s the only one who can answer that and I think she doesn’t know the answer herself.” She watches me, her gaze searching. She must find what she was looking for in my eyes, because she adds, “For what it’s worth, I think she will forgive you.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah. You’re on your own though, I’ve already said too much.”
“That’s alright, thanks for telling me.”
At that moment, my phone chimes. I pick it up and turn it over, revealing a text from Thayer.
Thayer:I miss you too.
My breath hitches and the drunkenness momentarily clears as I reread the text over and over again, making sure that it’s real and not a vision my love-addled brain has constructed to soothe my bruised heart.
I blink a few times to make sure, but it doesn’t change or disappear.
I miss you too.
She misses me.
Shemissesme.
I need to go to her.
Forgetting my level of inebriation, I jump to my feet from the stool I was sitting on and lose my balance, almost clotheslining Phoenix as I stumble a couple steps.
He catches me and helps me right myself.
“You alright mate?”
I fumble for my wallet. “Yeah, yeah. I have to go. Thayer texted me.”
Rogue puts a steadying hand on my forearm. “Go. We’ll close out.”
I nod at him in thanks before he turns towards Nera who’s still standing there with a smile on her face as she watches me.
“Nera.” He says, bringing her attention over to him.
“Yeah.”
