As I wait at the restaurant, I adjust my tie, then smooth my hands down the front of my trousers. I grab my whiskey and knock back a thirsty gulp, then I look at the time again.
Time.
The thing that mocked me three years ago.
Now, my life is different.
The question is . . . will hers be?
The door opens.
I turn around. My heart skips all its beats.
She walks in, looking as innocent and as seductive as she did three years ago along the River Seine.
Those freckles.
Her eyes.
Her curves.
And what’s that?
A hint of a pink bra strap.
I groan.
She walks over to me. “Good evening.”
I say nothing.
I made a promise to myself that if I had the good fortune to see her again, I’d do something else first.
Something that made me lose my mind for her.
I stand, sweep a hand through her hair, and tug her close for a kiss.
It’s like going back in time.
It’s as fantastic as I remembered.
She’s soft and warm, and she kisses back with a hunger I didn’t forget. I didn’t inflate. I didn’t exaggerate.
This woman kisses me like we’re kismet.
Like we’re serendipity.
Like we simply met at the wrong moment in time, but fate was on our side, guiding us back to the right moment.
Because now is right.
When we break the kiss, she smiles like she has a naughty secret. “It’s a fact— best first kiss ever.”
“Was that our first?” I ask with a grin that I can’t erase.
“It’s the first of many more to come,” she declares.
This woman.
I’m not letting her go.
I take her hand, guide her to the table I reserved, then tell her, “Just so you know, I’m not letting you get away this time.”
She squeezes back. “Just so you know, I’m not going anywhere.”
“I have one question though,” I say.
“Go for it.”
“Do you like water parks?”
“I love them.”
“Excellent.”
We have dinner and we catch up, and it’s as magical as it was that day nearly three years ago.
But more so.
Because it’s not winding up.
It’s unfurling into the future.
That’s where I go with her that night when she invites me to her place. Well, I go other places too. I take her to the heavens and back, and she calls out my name countless times, and I say hers too as she digs her nails into my back.
But it’s all the future.
She’s my future.
In the morning we exchange numbers, and I send her the first text from beside her in bed.
Reid: Just so you know, I’m falling in love with you.
Marley: Just so you know, I’ve been falling in love with you for three years.
The time is finally right. It’s finally ours. And with a little bit of searching, and a whole lot of fate, we have what I wrote in the book that day in Paris.
Endless time.
THE END
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