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Ava ran around the little table setting everything up just right. The candles flickered in the soft breeze, the waves crashed on the beach. The sun was just on the verge of setting, the sky was a mass of pinks, blues and purple streaks.

Ava looked down at her outfit, a black dress with a multicolored floral print that was very sexy. Her hair was tucked behind one ear with a red hibiscus flower.

She heard the creak of the stairs as Johnny ascended each step towards where she was waiting.

A man stepped through the door but it wasn't Johnny. Ava stopped dead in her tracks. "Callum, what are you doing here?" her words fell on dead air.

"Ava I really need to talk to you, it's important." Callum looked at her beseechingly.

Ava looked at all her handiwork all the trouble that had gone into tonight. "No." Shaking her head, she looked at him and then back at the table.

"I'm over you. You choose Meg over me, remember, it's been a year, I can't deal with you right now. I have a very special man waiting for dinner." Ava's eyes shone with love when she thought of Johnny.

"How can you be over me?" Callum derided her disbelievingly. "You were so in love with me, I think you finally forgot about the man you think of and get goosebumps over. You'd forgotten him and moved on with me."

"Yeah until I found you and Meg naked in my bed together. Nothing could make me forgive you for that or forget it. How is your darling personal assistant anyways?" Ava snarled at him.

"She's married to a dentist and living in Phoenix." Callum said.

"Well that's nice, now if you don't mind leaving, I have plans." Ava gestured to the stairs that he'd come up.

Johnny stood around the corner out of sight listening to them. At various points of their conversation his heart had gone up into his throat or dropped down into his gut.

"Callum please leave, whatever we had between us is over." Ava said again.

"You're wrong and I'll prove it." Callum strode over to her, grabbed her shoulders and jerked her forward and kissed her.

Johnny peeked his head around the corner to see why silence had prevailed, he saw Callum and Ava kissing and his heart broke.

Turning around, feeling very out of place he quietly walked down the stairs, his stature that of a broken man and walked to his car.

Feeling a sudden urge to get ragingly drunk, he headed for Silver's Bar. Dashing a tear away as he drove away, he focused on getting as smashed as he could.

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Java need some conflict in their relationship, it can't all be sunshine and flowers. Shadows come in the form of Callum and they either conquer and destroy or love conquers all……….wait and see!