“Wait,” he said, still holding my arm gently and rubbing small circles over it with his thumb. It was a sweet gesture but it alone made my lower regions catch fire. “I finish work in an hour and a half, let me take you home,” he said caringly, which caught me off guard. He must just be trying to get in your pants, I told myself. His kindness made no sense otherwise.
“No, I have to go now,” I told him, pulling away. “Thanks though,” I said when he still didn’t loosen his gentle hold on me.
“Okay, but please just wait here one second,” he asked and left me where I was standing, going inside the bar. I was going to leave after I had waited for three minutes but realized the taxi wasn’t here yet. So, I had nowhere to go anyways. Axel returned while I was deep in my internal conflict. He smiled at me and again, against my will I found myself smiling back. It was impossible not to when such a beautiful man was giving you, and only you, such a smile.
“Here,” he said, handing me a napkin. I looked at it and saw a phone number scrawled on it and felt my blush creep over my face. “Sorry it took so long, I had to do it in the bathroom. I’m not allowed to do this kind of thing,” he said with a shy grin that was unbelievably adorable. I took the napkin and put it into the pocket of my jeans, knowing I shouldn’t be accepting it but he was too cute to hurt right now.
“Have a good night Axel,” I said, seeing cab lights appear, and thankful for an escape.
“Good night Leah,” he said, his accent coming out thick only when he said my name, making my knees shake. Get a hold of yourself girl, stop acting like a love-struck high school girl over some beautiful man, I scolded myself, as I sat down in the cab and gave my home address. Where was his accent? I know it had been so thick that night. I’d spent so many hours thinking about that night, that accent, those hands, his eyes, all of him, all of it over and over, replaying it to myself before I went to sleep. I had so many questions now but most importantly, why was he here? And how had we never met before? I would have noticed him if I had ever seen him before. He was someone you couldn’t forget, no matter how hard you tried and I’d been trying.
Axel
I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT, EVEN after she’d stepped into the cab, disappearing from my life again, that she was real, that she was here. The brunette Goddess that had walked into my life that day when I was visiting family back home in Munich and then disappeared just as fast. She was back here in my life. I was in shock. When I felt her small hand brush against my arm and turned to look at who was speaking to me, she was the last person on my mind. Girls often came up to talk to me, especially when I was at work, this was where I met most of the girls that I took home but she wasn’t like them. Her big, warm, chocolate brown eyes had widened in shock and looked just as startled as I believe mine had looked. She was breathtaking, I couldn’t get over how stunningly beautiful she was, without even trying. In her white V-neck that highlighted her ample cleavage without bragging and tight jeans that hugged her curves and perfectly rounded ass. I quickly stopped checking her out and focused on her face, those big brown eyes, surrounded by long dark lashes that made them look even bigger, and her cute, perfect little nose and her round plump lips that sparkled with pink gloss that made them look simply edible.
I wanted to feel those lips against mine again so badly but I had to restrain myself. I couldn’t do this here or now. But God, I wanted to. I never wanted anything as badly as I wanted her, she ruined me that night and she was all I could think about ever since. Sex wasn’t the same anymore; I always compared everyone else to that one mind-blowing night with her and nothing compared or even came close. I’d think about her and replay our night in my mind when I fucked other girls but still it didn’t help. I wanted her; no, I needed her and here she was. What were the chances? Things like this didn’t happen, it had to be fate, a sign that this was meant to be. To be what, I didn’t know but there was a reason for all of this, I knew it and I was going to figure it out.
We both just stared at each other for what felt like an eternity until some blonde started shrieking and brought us back to reality. I was listening to the girls talking but my attention was fully on the goddess, Leah, her friend had shrilled. Her friend was driving me crazy and from the pained expression on Leah’s face, she felt the same. I immediately disliked her friend not only for interrupting the moment Leah and I were having but for leaving Leah all by herself, for some guy.
I didn’t like the idea of this beautiful woman going into a taxi alone late at night. That made me uncomfortable and I would have driven her home right now if I didn’t have to work still. When Leah smiled that breathtaking smile at me, it was as if the world stopped turning and time stood still, I could get lost in that smile of hers. I’d rubbed her arm as I held
