The Night Before I Knew Him Novels & Stories

He had been there simply to assure himself that she was actually leaving the country and his life. Lucas knew, of course, that she had once had a foolish adolescent crush on his friend and employee but, thankfully, that was all he did know; thankfully, he had no knowledge of that shaming and searingly painful, never to be thought about, never mind talked about incident that had taken place when she had still been at university in England.

She just hadn't felt it until now, standing in her kitchen at five AM with cold tile under her feet and the document on her screen and the specific awareness that she loved someone who did not yet know she was the one who had done this to him. Her phone lit up at six-oh-three. Marcus: Are you in the office? She looked at the text. She looked at the completed filing on her screen. She looked at the text again. He never texted before seven. He texted before seven when something had happened — something he wanted to move on before the day officially started. She had seen him text at six-forty once, about a board position that had resolved overnight. He had that particular quality of someone who

Manor POV Crap... I thought as I looked at the night sky and paced around the campfire that I made earlier. Shit! I groan in my head as I watched the dimly lit village in the distance as shops begin closing for the night. " FU*K!" I cursed out loud once more as I checked the time which was now a quarter past midnight. Where could Terry be?!!!! He's been gone for the past 6 hours!! I worry not knowing what was going through his mind this afternoon while I was panicking about our future. In my heart, I knew Terry was calculating all the possibilities of what could happen if one of our soul mates appeared. I don't know why, but I was silently praying that I was wrong, that he was knocked out in

Without a doubt, I would never forget this night and I could never forget him, since it was my first time. I opened the door gently, and as I left, I slowly closed it. For a moment I thought, it’s a good thing he didn’t wake up! My thought lasted a split second, until the door abruptly opened and the pissed-off stranger exclaimed, “Where the fuck do you think you’re going, mate?” ____________ The night before.

Because the man I chose that night… The man I came here to find… Is someone I already know. Someone I never expected. Someone who was never supposed to be him.

Nothing like the man who had held me the night before. “Is this the butcher?” Every muscle in my body locked. I forced air into my lungs and dragged one word out through the cloth. “Enzo, it's me!”

He transfers to the floor next to me. “I was wondering. Didn’t you know me that night you two showed up here?” I stat saying. “I mean you could have known me even before that since we had a class together in History.” I don’t why I’m asking this out of nowhere. I think I just to slide away from talking about Adam. “Well,” He positions himself, bringing his knees towards his chest and wrapping his arms around it. “I knew you even before that. I think I was only trying to pretend that it’s the first time I was meeting you.”

I need you to fuck me so hard I forget my own name, I told him before I even knew his last name. The words tumbled out in the dim hallway outside my apartment door, half-slurred from the tequila shots we’d done at the bar down the street, half-serious because the heat between my thighs had been building since the moment he’d brushed past me on the dance floor and let his hand linger low on my back. He hadn’t even flinched. Just looked down at me with those dark eyes, one corner of his mouth ticking up like he already knew exactly how this night would end.

"You're such an idiot." "Wait... I was also going to tell them how you moaned that night before you came," he said with a malicious expression, walking up and stopping in front of me. I wanted to punch him and, at the same time, pin him to my bed. "There's more... I was going to say that you came again in the early hours after another round. That was incredible. Do you remember? Because I remember very well." I remembered that night perfectly. How amazing it was, and... Wait... Damn! I forgot to take the damn pill. My brain went into a panic. Damn!

Holding each other close in our come down. "I know what I am, I know everything except, who I was before you. That was amazing, did your blood tell me?" He just gives me a knowing smile as my feet touch the ground. He adjusts himself back in his trousers, walking towards the cowering woman facing the wall. I forgot about her.