Chapter 9
March 15th
“Val?”
Surely, my ears weren’t hearing the last man I wanted to see with my name on his lips? The one who couldn’t possibly be in the same place and time as me when we’d had zero contact.
Then again, I’d been drinking for three hours at a local pub and now stood against the wall just to the left of where my new friends sat at, a little bit unsteady on my feet.
Maybe if I ignored him, pretended he wasn’t there, then he would go away without saying another word to me.
Fat chance since he stepped closer, his familiar scent and heat approaching me until he leaned back beside me and bent a little to whisper in my ear. “I won’t let you act like you don’t see me. I’ll stand here until you agree to talk to me.”
No doubt. “In that case, I’ll leave.”
I pushed away from t
