Free Kiss me for lost love by Samantha Rull Page B

silky yet familiar voice. He flicked the light switch on and I nearly fainted.
    The good looking man in the suit who I had been too busy to notice earlier before the presentations was my first love Vic!
    “ Vic is that you? My God!” I exclaimed.
    “ Yeah it’s me, no Mohawk now though,” he chuckled.
    “ I can see that, it’s so good to see you again.” I said beaming.
    “ You too and when I saw it was you giving the presentation and this was your company I had to come back to talk to you then everyone else had gone.”
    “ Well I’m glad you did,” I said standing and walking towards him. I gave him a hug. God he smelled good. “Thanks for the vote of confidence but I don’t think your boss liked my pitch,” I said looking into his deep blue eyes; he was more handsome now than ever.
    “ My boss? Oh, you mean Chuck? No he’s just my accountant he never likes anything. I’m the boss and you’re definitely getting my full portfolio.”
    I squealed with delight and embraced him unprofessionally before apologizing. It’s just emotionally taxing going from the bottom to the top again, I couldn’t help myself.
    “ Look,” he said. “I came back in here to say some things to you, I was a messed up kid and I’m sorry I left so quickly but the military literally saved my life. I came back today because I wanted to ask you to dinner, I don’t think it’s a coincidence we’re meeting up here again like this.”
    “ Oh you don’t do you?” I said slyly.
    “ I hope not, what do you say?” He said smiling, flashing perfect pearly whites.
    “ You know, I’m not that same little girl from high school,” I said.
    “ Good, because I’m not that same little boy though I could bring back the Mohawk if you wanted?”
    “ That’s ok; let it stay in the past with the camero. Dinner sounds great.”
    “ Tomorrow at seven pick you up here?” He asked.
    “ That sounds perfect Vic.” I smiled back hoping nothing was in my teeth.
    We looked at each other silently for several seconds. I could tell he wanted to say something, I wanted to say something but I couldn’t.
    “ Tomorrow at seven then,” he said and walked out of the door looking back as he was leaving.
    I sat back down hardly willing to believe what had just occurred. I almost forgot about the contract when I realized it was Vic! Vic was the president of this company now, interesting. I was so ecstatic to have been given the contract that would set my business on the right course financially as well as a second chance at love, without all the baggage of adolescence in the way. It was hard to believe my luck or fate, whatever it was.
    I couldn’t wait for seven o’clock the next day; I was so excited and nervous. It was almost like our first date again, it had been seventeen years. We would have to get to know one another all over, a process I myself was looking forward to. I was so happy to see Vic had overcome the difficulties in his life to succeed and even happier he had come back into my life unexpectedly. We were both high powered executives in our own right now yet it felt fresh, seven couldn’t arrive fast enough.
    I have to admit I waited downstairs at 6:45; of course Vic didn’t need to know that. I made him wait a couple extra minutes before coming out. There was no camero now, it was a Lexus. We went to a small bistro where we took a corner booth and began catching up on seventeen years of happenings. He had been married once; she died of cancer a few years back. He never remarried or had any children; he spent fifteen years in the military now he owns his own construction businesses. He didn’t brag about it but I could see he had become very successful. I told him my sob stories too about how I was unlucky in love.
    “ No kids for you either huh?”
    “ Was never married long enough,” I said and finished my martini.
    “ What happened?”
    “ I don’t know what ever happens? I guess I always put my work first. You do that