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mouth covers mine. I put my hands on his chest, but not to push him away. This is what I’ve dreamed about for a long time. One of the reasons I compared my last boyfriends to Cruz. When he kisses you—he kisses you with his whole being and it’s almost as if you reach a zenith you don’t want to come down from. It isn’t the sweet peck from earlier. No…This one is hot, needy and makes me wet between my thighs.
    He gives a soft groan and breaks the kiss, pressing his forehead to mine.
    I can hear him panting softly. My lips feel bruised but it isn’t unpleasant. I touch them gently, reverently.
    “I’m sorry.”
    “For what, Cruz?” I pull back, staring into his beautiful sea green eyes. His eyes were courtesy of his Spanish heritage and I  always felt  hypnotized by them as if I were drowning in them…Drowning in him.
    Cruz rubbed his fingers over my frown. “I’m sorry for just kissing you like that without warning and without asking if I could.”
    “You kissed me like that earlier. Well not exactly like that .” I laugh. “Don’t apologize I liked it and it was bound to happen.”
    “Bound to happen, eh?” A small smirk shows on his flawless lips.
    I nod. “Uh huh, bound to happen because you and I have been doing this dance for years and it basically went on hiatus when you left.”
    He chuckles, and leans against the railing, pulling me forward and between his legs. “All I thought about when I was gone—was you.”
    I open my mouth as if to speak and then close it again. What does one say to that? I mean he’s practically telling me that all he thought of for the last nine years was me!
    I must have looked like a fish out of water, but Cruz seems patient with me. He waited with me, still there between his legs and his hands loosely at my waist.
    “That’s a long time to think about someone, especially someone from your past.”
    “You weren’t just my past Roxie. Back then, it was like you were the only future that I could ever believe was mine to have.”
    Blink.
    My god, did he just really say that?
    Once again, his fingers were on my forehead and he was smoothing it out gently with his fingertips. “I keep making you frown and it seems I’ve made you go mute a second time around.”
    “I just find it a bit humbling that you would feel this way. It’s probably just a phase.”
    “Phases like you’re talking about are something you go through as a kid. We aren’t kids anymore.”
    “But we were kids the last time you saw me. We were sixteen year olds, who thought we were in love.”
    “Who’s to say we weren’t?” Cruz reaches up and brushes my hair behind my ear.
    Even though I seem to be I protesting, I keep giving him a lot of leeway to touch me. The real reason for it is like he said, but admitting it seems even harder. “Who’s to say we were?” I ask.

Chapter 7
    Cruz
     
    Boy, this girl loves to argue. It makes me smile. I love the fire in her and wouldn’t expect anything less. I have her where I wanted her. I was holding her and I could even smell her perfume. Damn. She was so sexy. I wasn’t going to make any fast moves though. That would be a mistake with Roxanne. Oh, my sweet Roxie, Roxie, Roxie. I shrug and answer, “I say we were .”
    Roxie laughs, it is melodic and sensual—all things I love about her. “So, because you say we were it’s a fact?”
    “Tell me that you didn’t feel the same. I know most adults will say kids don’t know what love is or what they want. We lived lives that made us grow up quickly. I loved you and you loved me.”
    “It was a long time ago…” She cast her eyes down.
    I don’t know what she’s looking at, but I put my finger under her chin and lift gently, so we’re eye to eye again. I stroke my finger lightly under her chin. “Not so long ago that we can’t remember.”
    “It’s been long enough, Cruz. There’s so much that’s happened to the both of us, we were silly back then.” Roxie places her hands on