Why do you always have to be such a problem? Why do you always have to push everyone who cares about you away? Wasn’t that what Wilder had told him, the last fight they’d had face-to-face?
“I’m headed to the bathroom,” Liam said, standing. He glanced at Cecily’s pensive face. He figured he’d just give her time to slip out of the bar, and out of his life. She already had one mental foot out the door anyway, he could tell. Besides, she was out of his league. Way, way out of his league. The longer he sat next to her, the more likely he’d be to start getting his hopes up. And the way this day was going that was just a recipe for disaster.
“Oh? Okay.” She watched him as he headed back into the even darker parts of the bar and walked to the small, narrow hallway with the old bathroom sign on the wall and an arrow pointing to the basement downstairs. He barely made it to the basement, his work boot hitting the ground floor when he felt a soft touch on his elbow.
He turned then to see Cecily there, big blue eyes wide, pink lips parted. His brain didn’t understand what she was doing there, didn’t understand why she hadn’t taken the opportunity to sneak out the dive bar and be on her merry way. His brain didn’t get it, but his body seemed to instinctively understand exactly why she was standing on the steps above him, the extra height still not quite making her taller. She studied his eyes, then his lips. No explanation came. No reason why she’d followed him down this dark staircase.
But he knew then, suddenly, exactly why she’d come. The realization dawned just as she closed the distance between them and pressed her soft lips against his.
Copyright © 2021 by Cara Lockwood
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ISBN-13: 9780369702418
The Last Affair
Copyright © 2021 by Artist C. Arthur
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