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She laughed. "Well, that makes you one of the few then," she said, with a hint of bitterness in her tone.
"Yeah, well, I try to not get involved in business that's not mine," I said, even though everything inside of me still screamed 'she is mine, she'll always be mine.'
"You're obviously going through something to be back here."
She looked at me then. "You've been talking to your sister," she said.
"She mentioned things didn't work out with the fiancé. But she didn't tell me why."
She sighed. "Good, it's embarrassing. I don't need the entire world knowing, although I don’t think that will last long."
I raised my eyebrow in question. She hastened to add, "Marcus was a public figure... a congressman. I'm just glad Tess helped me get out of there. I didn't want to face questions about why I left the congressional golden boy."
"Well shit, you should've known what you were getting yourself into... a politician? They're all self-serving egotistical bastards," I groused, then instantly regretted it, but she smiled softly. "Sorry. That's not what you need to hear right now."
She shook her head. "You never were one to mince words, Cooper. I wouldn't expect that to be any different now. And you're right," she said. "Hindsight is a bitch."
She left it at that and while I was dying to ask her what the son of a bitch did, it was nice to have some companionable silence as we ate our pudding. Besides, words evaded me when I saw her take that first mouthful and her eyes rolled back in her head, my dick stiffening against the fly of my jeans.
Goddammit, some things never change.
"Coop," she moaned, and I nearly came in my pants from that one syllable.
Get a hold of yourself, man.
"You always made the best haupia. I haven't had this in... well," she said, looking sheepishly at me, "a very long time." It didn’t surprise me to hear she hadn't had it since we broke up. Correction: since she left me heartbroken and alone. I hadn't touched it either, much less made it.
"You were always so good at this. I wonder what else you've learned to make since then," she asked idly.
"Just that, that's the only thing I ever cared enough about to learn to make. Although I make a pretty mean grilled cheese sandwich."
She didn't answer right away, looking down into her bowl before clearing her throat and then asking, "How do you get by then? Hopefully not just takeout."
"I wouldn't call it takeout. You know we don't have much of that around here. But Mahina makes these little ready-made meals in the General Store now. They're not bad. I wish she'd lay off the pineapple, though. She puts that shit in everything."
She smiled, obviously remembering my hatred of pineapple. Mahina found it to be the perfect tenderizer for any meat, so she had a tendency to stick it in every dish she could think of.
"Yeah, it's been nice to see Mahina again, although it still boggles my mind—she looks exactly the same as when we were kids. I don't think she's aged," Haley said.
I laughed, "That's because she did her aging all at once. Mahina is eternally eighty years old. I think she was born that way."
Haley and I laughed, our heads moving close together as she looked down, biting her lip the way she always did when she was holding back a big laugh.
She put her hand down on the table and, in the process, knocked her spoon onto the floor. We both leaned down at the same time, nearly butting our heads together. "Oh, I'm so sorry,"she breathed, and then we were eye to eye, only inches apart, our breaths swirling together for the first time in over a decade—it felt so right, just like it did back then.
Her eyes dilated and fell to my mouth and what little restraint I had over my cock unraveled. It surged against the fly of my pants. Blood was pumping so furiously throughout me that there was no way I was going to be able to hide my hard-on when I stood up.
But maybe I wouldn't have to.
Even as every other voice in my head was telling me this was insane, I tilted my head, my eyes falling to that luscious mouth of hers, and leaned forward.
I just wanted one more taste of her... that's when her eyes widened, and she gasped, pulling away.
Dammit.
"Cooper... I'm sorry, I..."
"No," I said, shaking my head. "That one was on me. I'm sorry, I got caught up in the moment... I should get going," I said, rising from the table and instantly regretting it as her eyes fell to my crotch.
