wasn’t going to be all fun and games. I was okay with that.
Aaron had also finally met my friends and he’d passed all the tough questions with flying colors. Melissa is still in the process of forgiving him for New Year’s, but she’ll get around to it. As I turned to go towards the front doors I felt chills run up both of my arms and down my spine as if I’d seen a ghost. I’d seen a man walk by the door…he looked familiar….But it couldn’t be him. I hadn’t seen him since… No, it just couldn’t be.
I turned back towards Aaron. My heart beat faster every time I so much as looked at him. My life was going so well. Things had started out a little rocky with Aaron, but they were getting better every day. Surely the fates couldn’t be that cruel. I breathed in the strength that just being in the same room as Aaron gave me and convinced myself that the person I thought I saw in that glance was my paranoia. It had to be. He and I had a deal…how could he have even found me? He couldn’t have, Robyn…knock it off!
I shook it off, telling myself not to make drama where there was none and I continued out the doors. As soon as the door stopped spinning, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned towards it and saw that I hadn’t been being paranoid after all. Standing there in the flesh was the one man that I could have lived forever without seeing again….my ex-husband.
“Hey gorgeous! Long time no see.” he said.
I was stunned into silence. I didn’t know what to say. I stood there, stupidly for several seconds and he said,
“We need to talk, babe.”
Holly Rayner