70 - LOVERS REUNITE

ARIA’S POV

I walked into the event, ready to look for Kyle when I bumped into him with some strange girl’s hand tucked into his while he held a bottle of wine and I paused. My eyebrows knotted in confusion as I tried to make sense of the situation that lay bare before me. What was going on? Who was this woman wearing a sparkling dress with sparkling eyes and why was he holding her. I felt overwhelmed already from running out Shawn and having an argument with Sam, the only thing I needed at that moment was the feel of Kyle’s hands around me, caressing my skin and whispering into my ears with his smooth buttery voice. I stared at him and he stared back at me, shock written allover his face, it took him a moment to actually realize I was the one standing before him, but it was already too late and I had turned around to leave.


“Aria wait – ”

I didn’t wait, in fact I hurried my footsteps even faster while I heard him pattering behind me but I didn’t stop, my eyes blurred with tears and my chest tightened in frustration. What the hell am I doing? Why did I think I could trust him so quick? He hadn’t changed and he was still the same old bastard that abandoned all those years. I took a sharp turn to my left because it was the quickest path to follow and the stony corridors where empty enough to bump into anyone on my way through there. I had no idea where I was going but the only thing in my head was to get away from Kyle as quickly as possible, but he stayed behind me still.

“Aria – ”

“Go away” I yelled back at him and just then he grabbed me by my arm pulling me into an empty dark room that smelled like absolutely nothing, there was a dim light above but it did nothing to illuminate the betrayal on my face or whatever expression Kyle was sporting at the moment.

“Let go of me” I pulled my hands away from him

“You have no right to be upset at me right now Aria” he said

“What?” I scoffed.

“For all I knew, you were in your engagement party with Shawn and you didn’t have the decency to tell me, I had to hear it from Janine that you had handed everything to her and who seemed pretty smug about it too” Of course Janine was going to be smug about, it was obvious she was going to use this opportunity to latch unto him, which in all honesty was what I hoped for even though I knew I wouldn't have the heart to bear it.

I scoffed again, even though he had a point but I wasn’t going to relent “I gave you a chance to choose me – and you didn’t”

“I was going to – today, after the banquet dinner and you – ” his voice stopped halfway “You weren’t even going to come”

“Why do you think I’m here now Kyle and not in my fucking engagement party”

“Why are you here?” his voice was calm and calculated, I could feel his eyes search mine in the darkness. His body was almost close to mine, and I could feel the heat radiating from his skin unto mine.

“To choose you, it has always been you from the moment that I hopped into your car after the club those years ago, it has always been you Kyle and not I don't think I can say the same about you”

“That’s not true – I thought you chose him, not showing up here meant you chose him. How do you think that made me feel?”

I stayed quiet because he was right, I didn’t know what to say, I didn’t know how to defend myself and the only running through my mind were her hands tucked conveniently in his.

“She didn’t mean anything” he said as if reading my thoughts “It has always been you Aria – always”

He tipped my chin to look at him, even though I couldn’t exactly see his face but I could feel his eyes on my lips and I yearned for him.

“Always?” I whispered back, desperately so. His hands found the curve of my waist and he latched on it, drawing me closer to him so that our bodies were completely touching. The darkness seemed to fuel the desire the lay within us, his lips hovered before mine but barely touching.

His breath fanned my face and I said “Three words, eight letters”

“I love you Aria” he didn’t waste a breath.

My heart fluttered, and a crazy feeling soared in my belly when he crashed his lips into mine in an urgency that left me floating in the sky with the clouds with Kyle beside me. At this point, his lips even felt softer than the last time his lips kissed mine. The kiss was sensous and igniting a fire in my soul, pooling a wetness between my legs.
He paused the kiss for a second and leaving us both breathless “I love you everyday” he added before kissing me again and this time, our songs swirled together in a French dance, I grabbed his hair softly, letting my hands glide softly through his strands and when he bit my lip, I groaned.

“I have never stopped loving you and Aria – there’s not a love story I can write without you in it, in every page” he said and I smiled at his words, Kyle had never been a sweet talker but hearing him revived the butterflies in my belly.

“Where did you learn how to talk like that” I asked him and he kissed my lips briefly again, smiling through the kiss, I felt enthralled and unbearably soon.

“I’ve just been shy” he said back and I giggled, still holding me close it him. His hands went up to caress my face softly and my skin melted at his touch.

“But firstly, there’s something I have to tell you” he said and there was some seriousness to his tone that scared me a little bit and I perched my ears as I nodded.

“Aria –” he started but suddenly I heard the loud echo of a lady’s heels clanking on the stone floor and suddenly someone emerged and when we both looked to see who it was, it was the girl I had seen Kyle holding earlier. She had her phone in her hands and a slightly panicked look on her face.

“Dahlia?” Kyle called looking surprised. Her eyes searched the both of us and she didn’t look phased at the non-existent distance between us, she only held up her phone for us to see.

“You both have to see this”

When I peered in on her screen, I froze instantly.

Shit!