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“To the left. She made a left at the corner Mr. Gaster.”
Quickly, I made my way to the corner. I began gawking in windows. Finally, I found her sitting at the bar in a local pub. I blew out a breath of frustration. Out of all the pubs she could enter she chose this one. I strolled inside standing at the end of the bar. The bar smelled like burgers, cigars, and cigarette smoke.
Tamara remembered me. She approached. “What can I get for you Hayden?”
“A Guinness.”
Natalie and her brother Ed own Night Owl pub. They inherited the place from their father. The bar has been around for years. There is always a packed house.
Tamara is Natalie’s best friend and the bar maid. She hates my guts. I wish Lydia wouldn’t have walked into this pub. I glanced down the bar. Lydia sat in the center of the bar nursing a drink.
“Here is your fucking Guinness Hayden. Why are you here? Natalie told you to never show your face in here again!”
I loosened my tie. “I’m here to get my girlfriend.” My eyes pointed to the middle of the bar.
She laughed. Then laughed harder. She rang the drinking bell. “Can I have everyone’s attention! The great Hayden Gaster has graced our presence again. Natalie get out here. You will never believe this.”
Lydia glanced down the bar at me. Her sad eyes fell back on her drink.
I looked away, drinking down half my beer. I needed another drink.
“What the fuck are you doing in my bar?”
“I’m leaving the moment I can talk to my woman.”
Her red head cocked to the side. “You said you liked me a lot, but you said you didn’t believe in girlfriends. We hung out together when you came here on business. The sex was good, I thought you would come around.”
Lydia didn’t look up this time.
Slowly, I walked away. I stood before Lydia. I wasn’t sure what I would say and how I could get out of this. Right now, my track record showed Lydia she couldn’t trust me. Natalie’s brother appeared from the back room. “Ed, please ring the bell.” Ed knew his sister was emotional and blew our fling out of proportion.
I raised my hands. “May I have everyone’s attention. This beautiful woman is upset with me. She’s been told I will have sex with her and run.”
Guys chuckled in the background.
I placed my hands in the air. “But wait.
She also doesn’t need me to take care of her. I’m still trying to process that one.” I glanced at Natalie.
“I’m sorry if I led you on.”
I turned my attention back to Lydia, placing her hands in mine. “I told you I have done some fucked up shit I’m not proud of. I am trying to start over with you. You are the woman who brightens my day. The woman I love holding in my arms. Lydia, I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Baby, you make me a better man.” Lydia’s head fell against my chest. Finally, I felt relief.
I raised my hand. “Drinks are on me!” The crowd went wild.
I held Lydia’s face in my hands as my eyes roamed her beautiful face. I took her lips with a hungry need. A need that’s been waiting to escape. I don’t want to hold back anymore. Lydia tugged at my suit jacket lapels.
“I’m falling in love with you Hayden.”
I was stunned. I couldn’t believe she admitted it. Lydia runs from me because I desecrated her. She doesn’t know how to let us be free together. To love each other.
“I never thought I would see the day, Hayden Gaster in love,” Natalie stated.
Tamara shook her head in agreeance.
I barely looked up from Lydia. “Baby, let’s get out of here.”
I gave Tamara my credit card to pay the bill.
“Honey, you look like you’ve been given a death sentence.”
Lydia’s head rested against my shoulder, her fingers ran up and down my wrist. She didn’t answer Tamara.
“Way to go Hayden, looks like you’ve messed with her head pretty good,” she smirked.
“You don’t know shit about her Tamara. Keep your opinions to yourself,” I snapped.
I signed the receipt then stormed out with my woman at my side.
Pete was double parked. He held the door open, Lydia and I slid inside. The moment we were in the car we were all over each other.
