"So I'll see you tonight then?"
She kept watching him as he strode off down the corridor.
"Yes of course" he responded indifferently.
Zoë had just made one of the biggest decisions of her life, a reaction from the man she was in love with would've been nice but that's Nick Jordan. She knew that deep down he was pleased that she wasn't going to marry Matt, at least she had to believe that.
After dinner at one of Zoë's favourite restaurants in town she invited Nick back to her flat which, of course, he was never going to turn down. The coffee machine worked its magic while Zoë and Nick stood in the kitchen and chatted about work. It wasn't because they were both so dedicated to their jobs that they could switch off it was just they were both avoiding talking about what had happened the night before. Love was not a word either of them used very often.
Nick placed his empty cup down on the glass-topped coffee table in front of him and watched Zoë sip the last dregs of hers. He smiled at her.
"Nice coffee!"
"Mmm, it was." Zoë reached over and placed her cup down next to his. He moved his hand that had been gently resting on her knee up on to her thigh and lent towards her to caress her neck with his lips.
"I like that a lot" she said in a low tone.
"Oh you do, do you? Well how about this?"
He kissed her passionately gripping her tightly around her waist and pulling her in towards him. Normally at this point she'd be dragging him to bed or at least making an effort to remove his clothes but tonight she seemed content to just sit there and be kissed. He thought something must be wrong.
"Zoe, are you alright?"
"Just shut up and kiss me ok?!" she replied quickly but there was a fliration in there.
"Well do you wanna go through to your room?"
"Why? No one's going to see!"
"So you wanna do it right here?" He smiled to himself for a moment but kissed her again without giving her time to answer. He just assumed that maybe she was fine after all. He then unzipped the back of her figure-hugging violet dress.
"What the hell Nick?!"
"What? I thought this was what you wanted!"
"Does it always have to be about sex?"
"Well I just thought when you invited me back here... So you're saying you don't want to?"
"I'm not saying that Nick. It's just today was tough, breaking up with Matt like that..."
"So you're not in the mood?"
"No it's not that..."
She kissed him this time with as much passion as he'd shown her and started to unbutton his shirt: "I'm sorry I'm being stupid. Let's go to bed. We can talk tomorrow..."
