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He pulls back from my face and looks up at me. I feel the engine
on the old car roar and him push it into gear. We drive to a hotel that I have
never noticed before… I hold onto his hand tightly, afraid that if I let go
that he will disappear. He cuts off the engine and then opens his door and I
follow him… looking over my shoulder hoping that no one sees me walking into
the room. He opens the door and closes it behind himself. The hotel isn’t a
classy place but it’s good enough, but anywhere would be good enough to stay at
with him. He closes the door behind me. He runs his hands up my body and I suck
in a breath. He brings his mouth down to mine and I kiss him back more
passionately than I have ever before. I feel the sides of his mouth turn up and
his fingers fumble with the bottom of my shirt as I pull away and look to him.
“I have missed this,” he says quietly. He pulls my shirt up over
my head and he smiles at me then twists my wrists over and kisses it. He kisses
the mark on my arm the one that will never go away. “I always worried that this
would come back and I wouldn’t be there for you.” He kisses the marks that only
he knows about.
“No, I could never do that again. I knew that you never wanted
me to, so I didn’t.” I was entirely confused still to why he was here. He pulls
me with him as he walks backward to the bed and I push him on his chest and he
lets his body fall onto the bed. I kneel down over top of him as he smiles up
to me.
“God, you are beautiful,” he tells me and I meet his lips
forcefully.
I pull the cover over top of my body as I am gasping for my
breath. I roll over and I meet Liam’s stare coming back to me. He smiles as he
brushes a piece of my hair out of my face. “I’m sorry I have been gone for so
long, Hay.” I am still confused. He reaches down and laces his hand into mine.
“So?” I let my sentence end there as I look at him and he
smiles, he already knows what I am asking.
“Hay, I’m right here.” He says rubbing the pad of his thumb on
my cheek.
“But then what happened?”
“There was an explosion.” He looks away, and for a second I fear
that he is lying about everything. “They thought that I was dead, but I wasn’t.
I was disoriented and I was thrown from the wreck with the impact of the blast.
I guess that it was pretty bad so I can only imagine that they thought some of
the body parts that were all over were some of mine as well.” I shudder when I
think of it. “David, after he got back from the states, found me wondering and
took me in. He decided that since the Corps already thought I was dead, and so
did everyone else that he was going to try and help me get back over here to
start over new. He somehow managed to get me a new passport and I.D. I’m not
sure how it worked out but it has so far.
“How long do you think that you can get away with it?”
“Well, I’m not really sure, but the government thinks that I am
dead.” He admits to me, the whole thing seems a little too good to be true. “I
come back here once a year to see how everyone is going… although David told me
never to come back, but I can only go a year without seeing you. I know that
you have noticed me before.” I smile and I nod my head.
“Who else do you see while you’re here?”
“Well, mainly just you. Sometimes I go by and see my mom, but
not very often.”
“You mean that every year when I think that you have come to me
that…”
“Yeah, I was really there.” I’m not sure how to react with this
information.
“But you let me believe that you were dead.” I feel the anger
raging up inside of me.
“I had to,” he looks to the floor, but I still want to be mad at
him about it.
“Then why are you telling me now?”
“Because I can’t take you being away from me anymore. I want you
to come with me. I want to move away somewhere where we can be together and
don’t have to hide.” I can’t believe he is asking me to do this, and all I can
think is about us sitting in the mall and him telling me he would give up
everything for me.
Yay... I have everything ready to go and I am going to hit the button tomorrow at some point and time... Yippie! This has been a long work in progress... ready to let people read it... I think.
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