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“I don’t think we need to have that conversation ever again,” I reply dryly.
He laughs and leans towards me; a conspiring look on his face. “You know. You completely misunderstood what I said that night.”
One.I nearly blurt it out, but manage to hold myself in check.
“I don’t think so.”
‘Yeah, you did.” He nods his head, his expression serious. “When I saidone, what I meant was you. You were the only person I’d met who had even made me consider chancing a relationship.”
The china spoon slips out of my hand and clangs onto my plate. “What? That’s not what you said at all. You said there had been one person, but you’d decided not to waste your time.” I remember it as clear as day.
“No, I said that I’d met one person and that I’d decided I didn’t want to waste my time with the wrong people. To be honest, I probably wasn’t as upfront or as clear as I should have been.” He grins his cheekiest smile yet.
My mouth is just hanging open. This completely changes everything that I ever thought I knew. I don’t even know what to say. I blow air out of my mouth a couple of times.
“So, when I was feeling completely sluttish for my number, you were sitting on a hoard of past shag-partners?” I ask eventually.
“It’s not the way you’re making it sound.” He smiles at me and takes a sip of drink, his eyes twinkling over the top of the glass. I’m starting to have difficulty deciding if I’m really annoyed or not. Ten years ago, I was obsessed that he had only been with one other person and that I wasn’t the one he was looking for. It’s what I’d told myself repeatedly in the first few months after I left.I was never his one.
“To be honest, Amber, it all came out wrong. The truth was that there were other girls, but I knew they would never be anything to me. It was the truth I told you on the beach that time, but then when I met you, something about you was so different, I knew you’d be worth making a play for.”
Musing silently for a moment, I let him sweat it out before flashing him a wicked look. “I knew you were too good to have had such limited practice.”
That line sounded much better in my head, where it should have stayed.
He laughs and wiggles both his eyebrows. “Good, hey? Glad you’ve remembered.”
The strongest feelings I’ve felt in a long time surge through me and I grab his hand across the table and give it a firm squeeze. “Thanks for taking me out, Freddy.”
He laughs. “You are very welcome.”
Inside me, I feel this new sensation taking root. It’s warm to the point of hot and it feels like it’s running through my veins. It’s filling me up with this explosive emotion.
I lean forward so I can keep my voice low. “I don’t suppose you fancy going back to the car to make out, do you?”
He laughs out loud. “You just read my mind. That, I can do.” And with his words, he waves for the waiter and we make a quick escape.
