“Hey!” she slapped his arm playfully. “You by no means complained about my love of romantic comedies after we had been youthful!”

“That’s as a result of I used to be too busy watching you watch the film,” he mentioned in a thick, gravelly voice.

“So what’s modified?” she requested in mock outrage. As if listening to how a lot he had adored her wasn’t unpicking all of the items of her coronary heart that had been held collectively by a thread.

“Nothing’s modified,” he conceded. “Besides that an motion film may need the slightest likelihood to distract me from you.” He chuckled darkly. ”I doubt it, although.” He climbed to his ft and appeared down at her with heat eyes. “Don’t go anyplace. I’ll be again shortly with our lunch.”

For an infinitesimal second, she was tempted to do exactly that. To face up and stroll away and by no means look again, identical to he’d accomplished to her. Besides he hadn’t disappeared with out first letting her know they had been accomplished. And as a lot as it could be the best strategy to harm him, it wouldn’t be the worst.

She wished him to expertise even slightly of the harm he’d given her. Possibly then he’d have extra empathy for the subsequent lady in his life. And possibly then, he’d perceive how deeply phrases might lower…might flay.

Chapter Fifteen

Aiden couldn’t put a finger on what had modified with Luna when he returned with their paper-wrapped fish and chips, however she was undoubtedly not in the identical mind set as she had been when he’d left.

However then she usually drifted off into her personal world, distracted by no matter ideas haunted her. He solely hoped she didn’t dwell on their previous breakup, and the way a lot he’d harm her. He might solely try to make it as much as her. Lord solely knew he liked to see her snort, simply as he liked to see all her inhibitions shed as they kissed and made love.

Made love? Was that what they’d been doing? He pulled a chip free from its wrapping and threw it to a seagull, the fowl instantly catching it midair in its beak, then flying away with a triumphant squawk. When had he and Luna gone from having intercourse to creating love?

It hadn’t but even been per week and he was already falling for her. Already? Had he ever actually gotten over her? Was it potential that his love had grown, not diminished, through the years?

A shiver of premonition went by way of him. He’d by no means even requested about her profession. When did she must return? Was their reunion already coming to an finish? He sucked in a loud breath. Dropping her now was unthinkable.

He sat down beside her and he or she reached for her sundress and pulled it over her head, overlaying her bikini together with the perfection of her physique.

“Smells so good,” she mentioned with a smile that didn’t fairly attain her eyes.

Concern ratcheted by way of him extra sharply. Shit. Had his instincts been proper and he actually did have one thing to fret about?

He unwrapped the fish and chips, together with the couple of potato muffins he’d ordered, and so they munched on the straightforward takeaway because the surf continued to rumble out and in, seagulls gathering on the grass in entrance of them whereas individuals strolled previous on the sidewalk between the ocean and the park.

Luna threw a chip in to the flock of gulls, and so they instantly squabbled for the prize, half-a-dozen flapping into the air to chase down the victor.

“So inform me about your work?” he requested.

She broke off a chunk of crumbed fish, her face considerate. “There’s not quite a bit to say. I receives a commission to journey to a great deal of completely different locations around the globe I’d by no means have in any other case seen.”

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