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Clare covered her mouth with her hand to hide her smile.
“Wes, well, it’s good to meet you. Mandy told me about you.”
Grinning, I asked, “All good things I hope.”
Clare let out a small groan.
Ron looked at Mandy, me, then back to Wes. “I guess so. I thought you lived in New York?”
“No, I moved back to Boston a year ago. Mandy didn’t tell you we ran into each other one night at a bar in town?”
If looks could kill, I would have been dead on the spot. Mandy was shooting me daggers.
Ron looked at Mandy. “No. She didn’t.”
“It was a long time ago, and I was with friends when I bumped into him.”
“Right, we…bumped…into each other.”
Clare grabbed my arm. “Wes, dear…est…we really need to be going. It was a pleasure meeting you both.”
She started to walk back toward the car when I stopped her. “Clare, hunny bunny, my coffee and your tea.”
Now it was Clare’s turn to shoot daggers at me. “Right. I forgot.”
I opened the door to the coffee shop and motioned for Clare to go in, then Mandy. Ron forced himself to smile at me as he followed Mandy in. Clare had stepped to the side so that Mandy and Ron could order first.
“What the fuck was that?” she hissed. “Your girlfriend? And hunny bunny? Seriously?”
Smiling, I wrapped my arm around her waist and pulled her closer to me when Mandy glanced over her shoulder. “You didn’t see the way she looked at you when she walked up. She was jealous.”
Clare stared at me like I’d grown two heads. With her voice lowered she asked, “What fantasy world are you living in, Wes? She did no such thing. And what was all that…webumpedinto each other one night?”
I shrugged. “We did. We bumped uglies.”
“Ugh,” she softly said as she reached to the side and pushed my hand away. “You are so gross. I can’t believe I even let you kiss me last night.”
Lowering my voice more, I said, “Ha! You lied earlier.”
Her face turned so red it was almost kind of cute.
“You knew it wasn’t a dream?”
“Of course I did.”
“Why did you lie then?”
I shrugged.
When Mandy and Ron were finished ordering and turned to face us, I drew Clare against me, put my finger on her chin and kissed her. I thought for sure she would pull away, instead, when I swept my tongue over her lower lip, she opened to me. The kiss was slow at first, then grew a bit more, and I swore I forgot everything and everyone around us. A voice cleared from behind us, and we both slowly drew apart and turned to see an older woman smiling.
“Young love. I remember those days. But you’re up next, so stop sucking face and go order, will you?”
Clare blushed and quickly made her way up to the counter where she ordered a chai tea Frappuccino. I ordered an americano.
After paying, I noticed Mandy and Ron standing off to the side whispering and smiling with one another. Clare was standing as far from them as she could, chewing on her thumb nail.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
