Page 34 of The Reason


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I look up from my menu and see this gorgeous muscle gentleman in a white button up and black tie. He is absolutely stunning, and it takes everything in me not to blush at him with the thoughts that are running through my head.You just masturbated to the thought of a different man. Get yourself under control Alison!

“A glass of Chardonnay and the chicken Alfredo please.”

“Lovely choice! I’ll go put that in right away for you.”Don’t even think about it! He didn’t mean it that way.I smile at him and hand him my menu. I feel a buzz in my pocket where my phone is and see the text from Izzy.

“Hey, what’s your new address so we can send you your invitation for the wedding?”

“Why do I need an invitation when I’m in the wedding?”

“Don’t even get me started on that, Jeremy’s mother insisted that everyone needs to receive one.”

I chuckle at her message before Jackson makes it back with my wine.

“Well obviously I’ll be there!”

“Oh, and there’s a plus one for you. Just in case ;)”I laugh at her message.

“I won’t need that but thanks anyway.”

“We will see, Ilene told me who your professor is. How ironic that he shows up after all this time. Especially since your single now.”

“Just because I’m single doesn’t mean I want a relationship. I just need to get laid!” After hitting the send button, I reread my message and laugh at how much I sound like Ilene.

“Wow, that sounded way too much like Ilene.”

“Was thinking the same thing, but I understand. Jeremy and I have been working opposite shifts, so I need the same girl!”

I send her my address and tell her that I’ll talk to her later when my food comes out. Except it’s not my food! I call for the girl who just brought out my food, but she doesn’t hear me. I stand up to make my way closer to her when a familiar face is at the other end of the room. He’s standing trying to get another man’s attention. When I try to sit back down without getting noticed, he turns and notices me.I can’t ignore him now that he is making his way towards me.

“Hey fancy seeing you here professor.” Dex laughs and my insides melt to molten lava. This man is one hundred percent adorable in all ways.

“I could say the same to you! I think that’s mine.” He points to the cheese pizza that’s on my table. I raise my eyebrows at him and smirk.

“Who comes to a nice restaurant like this and orders pizza?”

“This guy.” He points to himself and chuckles. He turns back to his table and grabs the plate on his table.

“I’m guessing this is yours?” He places my plate with my chicken Alfredo at my table. There’s a silence that passes through us for a few seconds.

“Uh, care to join since you're already here?” His lips slowly curl up and I see the excitement in his sky-blue eyes.

“Of course, thank you!” He grabs his jacket from his table and then makes his way back to me. He sits in the seat across from me and my body starts to heat up. I take my cardigan off and he raises his eyebrow.

“What’s your favorite song by them?” I scrunch my eyebrows with confusion at first, before realizing he is talking about my Rolling Stones shirt.

“Uhm, beast of burden. What about you?”This feels like a date. You’re totally on a date with your professor right now! Shh, it’s not a date!

“I can’t get no satisfaction.” I choke on my sip of wine when he says that’s.

“You, okay?” He says with a smirk.

“Uh yeah. I’m pretty sure it’s just called, satisfaction though.”

“Yeah, I think you're right. The beat is just so catchy.”

He takes a piece of his pizza and brings it up to his mouth. His tongue wraps around the string of cheese that hangs from the pizza after he takes a bite. It’s so hard to not think of what that tongue has done to me in my dreams. I try to get the thought out of my head before he notices, but it’s too late. He stares at me with hungry eyes, and I want to take advantage of them, but it would be wrong of me. We haven’t seen each other in years and I’m a different person now, he’s probably a different person. Plus, he’s my professor and that is probably against the rules somewhere.

“So, Allison Dolan. What have you been up to for the past seven years?”

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