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It didn’t ain After last night, he’d decided he was done with her

Sitting back, he tried to erase the memories of his ht now, not while he was here Watching her

He studied the girl as shewith those she spoke to She was confident in ways that none of his other girlfriends ever had been

Maybe that had been his problem Maybe that was the reason none of his other relationships had worked out He’d been choosing the wrong kind of girls

Maybe now he had the opportunity to change all that

So rong with him, then? Why couldn’t he concentrate? Why couldn’t he stop thinking about the other girl, the young one?

The one who’d needed hihts without sleeptwo long nights without someone he could come to, someone to soothe hi to wear on hi, why she’d caught hi hiht him back here in the first place And then he saw a spark of awareness "You were here last night, weren’t you? With an older wo just a little too low and revealing a gli at the top of her blouse "Your mother?"

It took only a ain "Good memory" His face slipped into the perfect uess"

She paused, tiue flicked over her lips just before she dazzled him with a smile that, on anyone else, would’ve stolen their very breath But not hiressor, theher moves that she wasn’t the one She was different today than the night beforebolder,

They were never supposed to seek him out

He was theyou anything else" She sestively And when he sed "Enjoy your meal"

He watched her short black skirt swish from side to side as she moved to the next table It was better to kno, he silently assured hies of the waitress froet attached

It didn’t irls out there Girls that would die to have a entle and he reached into his front pocket, pulling out his cell phone He scrolled through the photos he’d taken, ones he’d looked at a thousand times already Ones he’d practically memorized