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JESSE

The lady on the entrance desk on the retreat middle certain as hell regarded like Makenna Shelton. She was older and much more voluptuous, but it surely had been seven years.

Was it potential?

“Have you learnt the lady who works the entrance desk on the retreat middle?” I requested Nate as we sat on the bar within the city’s solely watering gap, the Thirsty Lizard.

Nate shrugged. “A girl named Alyssa owns the place, and I do know she employed somebody named Sierra. Blonde, twenty-something…”

“That’s her.”

“What about her?”

“Nothing.” I shook my head. “She simply regarded like somebody I used to know, that’s all.”

As our dialog turned to enterprise, discussing the logistics of the massive occasion, I couldn’t shake ideas of this Sierra lady. She wasn’t sporting a marriage ring, so there was an opportunity she was accessible. And she or he appeared —until I had imagined that she was making eyes at me. Wouldn’t it be incorrect to sleep with a girl as a result of she jogged my memory of my temporary summer season romance seven years in the past?

As I parked my bike and headed into the retreat middle, I advised myself she’d most likely gone dwelling for the night time. I didn’t wish to get my hopes up, solely to be upset.

A lot to my shock, although, she nonetheless stood precisely the place she’d been after I waved goodbye to her on my approach out the door. She had an enormous smile on her face.

“How’d your dinner go?”

I continued straight towards the counter. Usually, I’d stroll previous the reception desk with a wave and head straight to my room, however I used to be drawn to this lady like a moth to a flame.

“We went to the Thirsty Lizard,” I stated.

She nodded, crossing her arms over that beneficiant chest of hers. “Standard place with locals.”

“Not your favourite, although?”

“Nope,” she stated. “The Mexican place is my favourite.”

“Perhaps I’ll need to deal with you to dinner earlier than I go away city.”

Was I flirting? It’d been some time since I labored out that muscle. Perhaps it wouldn’t be so incorrect to sleep with a girl who jogged my memory of Makenna. I’d by no means slept together with her. She was an eighteen-year-old virgin, and I used to be a twenty-eight-year-old bachelor. We’d kissed and held palms, however I’d been a complete gentleman.

After which I’d spent the following seven years questioning what it will have been wish to go additional together with her. Perhaps all the best way.

“Are you asking me on a date?”

She tilted her head to the facet, a smile on her face. That was a great signal, proper?

“I suppose I’m,” I stated. “Actually, what time do you get off work tonight?”

She frowned, little creases showing between these excellent eyebrows of hers. All the pieces about her was excellent. Actually, if I’d by no means met Makenna, I’d nonetheless discover this lady irresistible. I couldn’t take my eyes off her.

“Didn’t you simply eat dinner?” she requested.

“Yeah, however I’m heading out again to hold on the patio a short while,” I stated. “I believed I’d seize a drink from the bar, simply benefit from the view as an alternative of sitting round in my room.”

I’d deliberate to do completely none of that, however now it appeared like a good suggestion. Why hand around in my room after I might take pleasure in some extra of that contemporary night time air? And if Sierra couldn’t be part of me, at the least I might cease by and discuss to her just a little extra earlier than going to mattress.

“I’m off at 9,” she stated. “So, should you can hang around for one more twenty minutes or so, I’ll come out.”

I smiled. “Feels like a plan.”

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