“And she was everything that I wasn’t looking for.”
Our eyes are locked, and the air crackles between us.
“But I couldn’t pursue her because of my promise to Claudia.” He takes my face in his hand, and his thumb dusts back and forth over my bottom lip. “I wanted to. I desperately wanted to. I felt a physical connection with her from the word go. I was hard the entire plane trip, and our night together was insane.” He smiles softly. “There was something about her that I couldn’t forget. She lingered in the back of my mind. I compared all s*x and women with her since then.” He pauses as he tries to articulate his thoughts. “They always fell short . . . even Claudia.”
I smile as hope blooms in my chest.
“Recently I’d been thinking about her a lot, and I had even contacted the airline and
