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I’d witnessed his arrival from afar—i.e., across the road because there was no way in hell I could get close to him after finding out the love of my life had a child—and I’d been proud of him for coming. Sure, I’d also been sad—because seriously, I’d been pining away for him since before I was in training bras—but seeing him happy and successful was all I could ever want for the man I loved.
I’d watched him grow as a football player, father, and altogether great man over the last few years. And now that my heart wasn’t so broken and admitting to myself that I’d had plenty of opportunities to express my undying love for the man, I’d decided this was the time to admit to him that he was the one for me.
It was now or never.
The anticipation of him walking up had to be why I reacted the way I did when he arrived.
One second, I was sitting in my chair waiting for him.
The next, he was saying ‘hey, Blue’ and I was launching myself at the man.
He’d caught me with both drinks still solidly in his fists.
“Hey,” I breathed.
He set me aside and looked down at me with a massive grin on his face.
Damn, Titus had always had a great smile.
It was even better now with his leaner face and his serious eyes. Eyes that were solely focused on me.
Stomach roiling at the possibility of him there, spending time with me, I asked, “Are y’all gonna sit with us?”
That’s when I saw the chairs he’d dragged over and felt my face flame.
To cover up my stupidness, I said, “Where’s Perry?”
I must’ve missed something, because Slone spoke softly to Titus as they all took a seat.
I was so focused on the man now sitting beside me, and God, he’d even remembered my favorite drink, that I hadn’t realized that ‘Jumper’ had come up to our table until I heard “Titus King!” called.
I looked over just in time to see Jumper hurling herself toward Titus, and Titus saying, “Jumper!”
I slid off my chair when her ass hit me, knocking the almost full glass of lemonade over, practically into my lap.
I cursed and moved quick, my reaction leaning toward ‘bartender’ mode.
Hurrying away, I found the first employee I saw and pointed toward my vacated chair. “Can you go over and get that cleaned up? I’m going to go to the bathroom and see if I can get this cleaned.”
The girl, Judy, nodded. “Yes, ma’am.”
Then I was off, thinking about how maybe Titus didn’t think I was all that special if he had women throwing themselves at him all the time.
Maybe it was just normal to hug women back…
Cursing myself and my inability to stop second guessing everything that was said and done by that man, I hurried into the first bathroom I got to and headed to the hand dryer.
Stupid luck.
Stupid hopes.
Stupid dreams.
God, sometimes it sucked when you didn’t get what you wanted.
CHAPTER 3
I cannot brain. Today I has the dumb.
