“It is. This has always been it. Well, but it’s just one show. You never know. It might lead to nothing. But it will still give me an audience bigger than I’ve ever had. One that’s expecting music, so I won’t have to warm them up properly. They think this warming up act is a big deal, but boy, they forget what it’s like to play to a crowd that comes only to heckle!”
That was said with real feeling, and made Christian laugh.
She noticed, changing the subject quickly to his training. It wasn’t difficult to listen to him. It was like a different world.
“Wow. So after all of that, you can still walk,” she said, finally, amazed at the kind of rigorous training he’d had to deal with.
“I like the water part of it. I’m part fish.”
“Graceful as a dolphin?” she teased.
“Deadly as a shark,” he retorted, making her chuckle again.
“Weird that somebody who loves water so much decided to fight fire?”
He shrugged.
“I would’ve thought that it made sense. Who else would fight fire?”
She grinned.
“I guess, but I’ve yet to see a marine mammal fight fire. Or a shark.”
Time flew, and she forgot that she’d meant to go home.
Being with him seemed to make everything right.
Everything about him soothed her.
Made her feel right.
Finally she rose, reluctantly.
“I do have to go,” she said.
“I’ll drop you home.”
She smiled up at him.
“Just drop you home. I can’t stay tonight.”
Her disappointment was obvious.
“I want to. But I have training at five in the morning.”
She rolled her eyes.
“More training and there won’t be anything left to train,” she said, and she didn’t care that it sounded like grumbling.
They drove back in silence, each lost in thoughts.
When they reached, she turned to him with a smile.
“Good night?” she said.
He looked at her as if he hadn’t seen her before.
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“You look so beautiful tonight. As if you were created to haunt my dreams,” he said, and the words took her breath away.
When he leaned towards her, their lips met with sighing softness.
“Oh, Christian,” she whispered, and she felt herself being pulled closer to him.
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“Not tonight. I won’t leave if I come up tonight,” he said.
She knew he wouldn’t, so she smiled as she pressed one last, soft, relatively chaste kiss to his lips, and moved away, getting out of the car and walking away.