Quiet Conversation Part II
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“You’ve already told me all of this so not sure why we’re discussing it again,” she felt crowded in as he stood in her personal space, his arms on either side of her as his hands gripped the counter behind her.
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She could smell his cologne, the same scent she used to spray on her pillow all those years ago when they first started dating and it was heady as his proximity was reminding her of things she was desperate to forget.
“We’re discussing it because I don’t believe it’s sunk in for you yet, but I need you to know, I love you, January. I love you more than anything or anyone on this planet. There is nothing I wouldn’t do for you,” his words were spoken softly, low and yet there was no doubt he meant what he was saying. “Since the time I saw you exit the school, you were it for me. Nobody else. I don’t need to go on dates. I don’t need to go for coffee. I don’t need to hold hands, kiss, make love, to anyone else to know this, you, us, is what I want.”
He was intense. His words were hot, his breath fanning her cheek and she found her heart thrumming wildly in her chest. She blinked back tears as his eyes bored into hers.
“I hurt you. I know I hurt you, January, but baby, I am begging here for you to see that I would do anything to fix it a time you tell me there is no way to fix it. I die a little more
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inside. I know this is my fault. I know this is my pain and I deserve it.” He rested his forehead against hers, “but when I tell you the idea of you with another man is breaking my heart, it’s not a lie.”
“Gulliver,” she whispered his name, incapable of breaking eye contact as he lifted a hand up from the counter to cup her cheek.
“I love you, January. There will never be a moment in time when I don’t love you. I’m in this house, surrounded by the truth of my betrayal of you, the way you needed to erase me from your life like I was a tumor which needed to be excised. Fuck, January,” he choked on her name, “all the things I’ve missed. I missed seeing your belly grow with our daughter. I missed holding your hand through her birth. I missed holding you while you cried on her first day of school and you can’t convince me you didn’t. All the firsts that I missed with her; I also missed with you. I’m accepting this as my punishment for my duplicity. I thought I’d be okay knowing you went on dates but sitting here while you were out with him, fucking broke me inside.” His fingers stretched to push her hair off her cheeks.
A single tear coursed down over the swell of her cheek and his
thumb brushes it aside.
“Did you kiss him?”
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Her eyes flashed to his startled, “of course not. Didn’t they tell
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you everything?”
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“No. The minute they told me your order and that you were out I told them to keep the details to themselves unless you were in danger. I don’t know what was worse. Their play–by–play or my imagination.”
“I didn’t kiss him,” she shook her head. “We met for coffee. Went for a walk. I explained things. We chatted about the kids. I came back home. He went home to his son.”
“You like him?”
“Yes.”
“More than me?”
“I like Henry more than you.”
The corner of his lip pulled upwards at the comment, “well I mean, Henry is pretty cute.”
“Henry freaked me the fuck out and I jumped up on the table to get away from him before my mother threw him out the door on the back of a broom like she was playing lacrosse. Not to mention he smells really bad, has beady eyes and he has pointy teeth.”
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don’t have pointy teeth, I think I smell pretty good,” he made
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a show of sniffing his armpits, “and pretty sure I don’t have beady eyes.”
“No, you smell good.” She caught herself and rolled her eyes at his smirk. “It’s not hard to smell better than a skunk, Gulliver.”
“Are you going out with him again?”
“Possibly.”
“Okay.” He said sadly, “I promise to try not to pout too much over your dates. Can I ask you on a date?”
“You can ask. I won’t go.”
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“Now you’re being mean.” He chuckled as she smirked back at him.
“Can I ask if you thought of me at all when you were out?”
“No, you can’t ask that.”
“You did. I knew it.”
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“Shut up,” she pushed his chest and he didn’t budge an ounce
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and instead he stepped closer to her.
“How does he compare? Is he as handsome as me?”
“Now you’re being annoying.”
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“I bet if you kiss him, you’ll remember how good our kisses were. How it would take a single touch of our lips and our clothes would go flying in every direction.”
“Stop it,” she wanted to duck out from under his arm.
“I’ll never stop thinking of all the ways we loved each other. I fucked up. I’m going to make up for it. If my punishment is to watch you go on a hundred dates, then it is what I’ll do. You need to know though, for every date you go on, I’m going to turn on the charm.”
“You’re crazy.”
“I am. Crazy in love with you. I’m conceding that you need to explore other men to find out the love we had is not anything you can top with anyone else. Then, when you have tried it all out, I will kiss you and remind you of how sexy we are together.”
“I’m not letting you kiss me.” she made a face at him, her heart pounding at the idea of his lips on hers. Damn him. She was 5/6 not going to admit how much she wanted him to kiss her. Her
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body was on fire from how close he was to her and how he was now being his cocky self.
“Why not? Because you know if you do, it’ll make you want to not date anyone else?”
“No.” She denied it.
“Little liar,” he tapped her nose with his finger. “It’s okay. You can lie to me. I lied to you. It’s only fair. Now, you are saved by the bell since I hear our daughter coming in the door.” He backed away from her and then leaned closer to whisper in her ear, “I love you, January and I will never stop. When you want a kiss come let me know. I’ll be waiting with lips puckered.”
What did it say about her as he turned to greet Kaylee who was coming in carrying a large bag of groceries insisting she was a big girl and could do it, that she really wanted that kiss?
