Chapter Nineteen

Luna’s mouth harm as she pressured yet one more smile and stated a cheery goodbye to the final passenger aboard the flight that had landed again to Sydney. She sighed closely, her face about to crack with effort.

Trina, one of many different flight attendants, approached her. “Are you okay, Luna?”

She nodded, however was too drained to pressure yet one more smile. “Sure, after all,” she lied. “Why?”

“Ever because you had every week off you haven’t appeared your self.”

Trina was too insightful by far. “You then’d be proper.” She winced. “Did you ever marvel what your life would have been like if you happen to’d turned left as an alternative of proper? Mentioned sure as an alternative of no?”

“Wow, that’s deep,” Trina introduced. “However, sure. Haven’t all of us?” She arched a darkish eyebrow. “Do you’ve gotten regrets? An extended, misplaced love, maybe?”

“Perhaps.” Luna managed to evade the entire fact by doing one final inspection down the aisles, checking for any belongings left behind by unsuspecting passengers. Trina adopted her for one final visible.

It wasn’t till they have been strolling by way of the airport, their wheeled baggage trailing behind, that Trina put a hand on her arm and stated, “In the event you ever want to speak, I’m right here, okay?”

Luna stopped, then turned to her and gave her a hug. “Thanks, Trina.” It wasn’t till she pulled again that the hairs on the again of her neck stood up, a prickling sensation going up and down her backbone. Even earlier than she rotated, she knew simply who precisely was ready for her.

“Aiden,” she whispered.

“I feel I perceive now why you’ve been so distracted,” Trina muttered with an envious little snicker.

However Luna was already caught up within the second, her breath catching in her throat, her chest constricting whereas her mouth dried to parchment.

Aiden was nonetheless devastatingly good wanting, and but he seemed totally different. Within the three weeks since she’d walked away from him, and intentionally labored her ass off attempting to overlook him, he’d misplaced weight. But in some way it suited him. His cheekbones have been sharper, his corded physique extra outlined, his fitted fits sleeker.

He stepped towards her, his darkish eyes operating over her, assessing her simply as she’d assessed him. And in that second her physique got here to life, her pulse hammering, her imaginative and prescient brightening, her instincts targeted all on him.

She swallowed closely. “Aiden. Wh-what are you doing right here?”

“I’m right here for you,” he stated merely, but with such depth, it took every little thing she had to not take a step straight into his arms…to not take an enormous step again. He stopped proper in entrance of her, his tall, imposing type making everybody else within the airport fade into obscurity.

“It’s too late,” she stated with a tilt to her chin, her physique operating sizzling then chilly simply by being in his presence. God assist her, she’d thought she was getting over him, however she wasn’t. Removed from it. She was nonetheless as drawn to him as she ever was, maybe much more so.

“I would like you, Luna. I at all times have. I used to be a idiot all these years in the past, too caught in grief to care about something or anybody. After which once I did care…I assumed it was too late. I assumed you’d have discovered somebody extra deserving. And after the best way I handled you, I didn’t for a second think about you’d forgive me anyway.”

Her face paled, her eyes shimmering. “I want you hadn’t believed that,” she whispered. “I want I’d recognized you continue to cared.”

He exhaled softly, the toes of his polished sneakers virtually touching the toes of her platform sneakers, and but the chasm between them would possibly as effectively have been hundreds of miles large. “I used to be a idiot,” he stated hoarsely. “You have been the most effective factor in my life, and I threw it away.”

“Why, Aiden?” she croaked. “I-I want to grasp.”

His eyes glimmered, as if he fought towards the ache of remembered feelings. “After I misplaced my dad and mom; I assumed it was solely a matter of time earlier than I misplaced you, too.” He shrugged. “So I tore off the sticking plaster and walked away from you earlier than you had the prospect to stroll away from me.”

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