“Hey, Squirt.You avoiding me?”I asked her three years after joining the Air Force.
The party was at her parents’ house that year, and I remember how everyone was watching the fireworks, Fourth of July paraphernalia everywhere.Cups on the ground, summer in full swing, all our parents and their friends along with neighbors staring up at the sky.
I’d chosen that moment because there would be less witnesses.I needed to have just a moment with her.
Craved it.
“I’m not a kid, Liam.Stop calling me that stupid, damn name.”She hissed as my eyes dipped down her tanned cleavage, which was a little bigger than the last time I’d seen her.
No, she wasn’t a kid, not at fucking all.
I hadn’t been able to stop looking at her all night.The short red dress she wore, the way her long blonde waves covered her tits, her full glossy lips.
She was every man’s wet dream.
But I also knew she was upset with me and thought I’d lied to her.I needed to clear it up.Make her understand.
“To me, you’ll always beSquirt,” I taunted her, waiting for her to melt as she always did.
“Whatever.How’s the death squad?”Jessie glared, and I cringed.
She never was one to mince words, but at least we got straight to the topic.
“So that’s why you are upset.”
“I’m not upset.”
“You’re upset.”I brushed her hair from her shoulder, forcing her eyes up to mine.“You shouldn’t be.”
I shouldn’t have been touching her.
“Why?Because, let me guess, you’re allowed to do whatever you want.”
“Yes.”
“Fine.Good.Go kill yourself.I don’t care,” Jessie said childishly.
“You said not to join thearmy.I agreed.”
Goddamn it.I hadn’t meant to say that.
Jessie blinked, looking confused and stupid me, I’d opened my mouth and kept talking.
“I kept my promise to you, Jess.I’m a pilot, safe up in the air.”My voice was a low rumble.
“You did that for me?”she whispered, her lips parting.
Wary of losing myself in her beautiful blue eyes, I nodded.When I turned back, I rasped, “Yeah, Jess.I kept my promise.That’s all I can say.”
Then my eyes dipped to her mouth as her tongue swept out and wet her tempting lips.She leaned in at the same damn time my body responded.Inches away from her mouth, I remembered where the fuck we were.
“Walk away, Jess,” I rasped.
She blinked, a flicker of rejection filling her eyes.
“What?”
“Walk away now,” I begged, aching for this woman.
