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“I like the place.” I smiled. “I like this.”
Axel didn’t take his eyes off me until the waiter arrived and served our drinks. I grabbed mine and relaxed, talking with him, looking at him, wanting to be closer, to have him, to take another moment of his…
“Lost Stars” played in the background.
“Can I ask you a question?” I said.
“Knowing you, I should be prudent and say, ‘It depends.’”
“It’s nothing really personal.”
“Okay. Shoot.”
“What did you used to do when you lived alone?”
“Before?” He shrugged. “Same as now. Just without you.”
Something about his tone in those last words gave me gooseflesh. I put my straw in my mouth and took a sip of my drink. I tried not to blush. “Was it better?”
“No.” He sounded certain.
“Will you miss me when I go?”
“Leah…” He sounded irritated.
“Come on. Be honest.”
Axel exhaled a breath. “I even miss you on the weeks you’re not here.”
My heart beat faster. I took another drink. I shouldn’t have…but the words got away from me. “Axel, why can’t it happen?”
He understood me without any need to say more. “You know. It’s just how things are.”
“What if they weren’t?” I said.
“What are you getting at, Leah?”
“I don’t know. Knowing what everything would be like in a parallel reality. If nothing stood in our way and we were two strangers who just bumped into each other here in this bar, would you notice me?”
Axel nodded slowly. His intense stare told me there was desire there, and more.
“What would you do?”
Axel shifted, nervous, discreet. “Sometimes it’s better to let things lie.”
“I’d rather know. I need to know,” I whispered.
He leaned back and let his defenses down. The wall crumbled at his feet and his words emerged from behind the cloud of dust that trapped us. “I’d talk with you. Ask you your name.”
“That’s all?” My lips were moist.
“Then we’d dance, and I’d kiss you slowly.”
“Sounds romantic,” I admitted uncertainly.
A muscle tensed in his jaw and he leaned his forearms on the table between us and came close to me. “Then without anyone noticing, I’d push you against a wall, put my hand under that dress you’ve got on, and fuck you with my fingers.”
“Axel…” My heart skipped a beat.
