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"Time for another round!" Rachel Crenshaw said as she passed me a shot. "Your shoot was fucking amazing," she said, clinking her glass with mine. "Cheers."
I glanced at the pictures decorating the walls. Theywerefucking amazing. Ari and I looked like pure sex in all of them, like we were seconds away from ripping each other’s clothes off. The tension and chemistry were physically tangible…even through the lens of a camera.
Longing raced through my heart. The way he was looking at me in those photos–he looked at me like that every fucking day.
And I was so scared to lose it.
“Blake, drink!” Rachel sing-songed, bringing me back to the present. Deciding I definitely needed more if I was going to drown out my thoughts, I tipped the shot back, laughing as heat slid through my veins, warming me up all over. It felt so fucking good.
I turned and wrapped my arms around Ari's heated body, pressing my cheek against his chest.
Because he felt better.
"What was that, sunshine?"
Whoops. I must've said that out loud. I glanced up at him, and he was slightly doubled, the lights behind him making his dark suit light up, casting shadows against his face. "I don't want us to break," I confessed, my tongue loosened from every drink, my feet unsteady. His hold on my ass was the only thing keeping me upright. Keeping me from falling.
"I won't let us break." There was no doubt in his voice. Only perfect confidence. And the drunk me was desperate to believe him.
"But...y-you..." God, it was hard to talk. Because of the drinks. Because of...everything. "You tricked me. Blocked him."
"I think we’ve discussed this before, baby. You didn’t belong with him. He was the one stepping where he wasn’t supposed to.Hewas the intruder.”
His grip tightened on my ass and I started to feel very needy…
“It was always going to be us."
I hummed my agreement, because I’d thought that when I met him too. That he was my everything.
“You know I thought I was going to marry you when we met,” I slurred. Something was nagging in the back of my head that I shouldn’t be saying this, but I pushed it away.
Because Ari was my safe place. Even when I was mad, hurt, upset…he was still somehow my safe place.
He was where I most felt free.
Hmm. That was weird. Maybe something for sober Blake to think of. Later.
Much later.
“You were saying, sunshine?” he murmured, his fingers tangling in my hair as he forced me to look at him.
I wanted to lick him..
“Thanks,” he chuckled. “You’re welcome to. Just as long as I get to lick you back.”
Whoops, I’d said that out loud too.
“Oh!” I exclaimed, remembering what I’d been saying. “I totally thought I was going to marry you. I was ten years old and I was fucking done. Mrs. Lancaster. That was me.” I giggled. “I had it all planned. A white dress. Pretty flowers. And you were going to love me forever and ever.” I buried my face in his chest and rubbed against his silky shirt. “Things are so much easier when you’re a kid,” I sighed. “You can believe in forever and ever.”
His hands rubbed down my back, soothing my feverish skin.
A waiter passed by with more drinks, and I lurched towards him…because they were neon green.
I loved green.
Like Ari’s eyes.
“These remind me of your eyes. Green, green, green. My favorite,” I told him as his lips danced down my neck. That felt good. Really good.
