Chapter 7: Kiss at last!

'Crap! Now he will tease me till the end of my life!', thought Claire.

She was afraid of what will Alex say, so she decided to beat him to it:

„So, what brings ya here, Ryan?", she asked.

Alex barely found his voice again. Seeing Claire like this was... 'Dear God! She looks amazing!', he thought.

Then he realized that she asked him something.

„What? Oh, yeah, umm...I brought that axe you needed", he gave her axe, leaving her completely speechless.

Claire looked at him, creasing her eyebrows:

„You brought axe to me in this hour?", asked Claire stunned, regarding that it was 22:45 allready.

„Yeah, well, I was on my way back from pub and axe was in my car."

Claire felt sharp pain in her heart. 'Of course, he was out with his girlfriend.'

„Right. You were at the pub", she took axe from Alex „Thanks. How was it in pub?"

Alex watched her carefully. Was that pain running across her face?

„It was englihting", he said.

Claire looked at him quizzically.

„Englihting?", she creased her eyebrows.

„Yeah", said Alex, falling silent for a moment.

Than he looked at Claire again and said, looking her directly in the eyes „I broke up with Melinda."

Claire felt her heart stopped, than started to race.

She tried to keep up her peace and she swallowed hard before saying:

„Wow, that was quick. You have new record", she said, without thinking.

Alex frowned:

„What's that suppossed to mean?"

„That you can't be in one relationship more than four days", said Claire and she find herself shocked to hear herself saying such things!

„How would you know, Claire!", asked Alex, getting upset. 'How could she judge him when it was only her fault for him becoming a playboy!', he thought.

Claire looked at him, frustration and hurt were so obvious in her eyes.

„I happen to know much more about love than you, Alex!"

„Yeah, right!", laughed Alex, trying to hide his pain „How could you when you are single!"

Claire felt anger rise inside her and before she could think, she blurted out:

„Love isn't about having new relationships every week, Alex! Love is when you can think only about one person 24 hours per day and all you want is to be with that person", Claire said quietly. She looked directly in his eyes and than shook her head „I don't know why I'm having this conversation with you. You don't even care", she said and started to walk away.

And that's when she felt Alex's arm grabbing her wrist. Before she could even think about what's going on, she felt him pushing her gently, but quickly against the wall and with the sentence „Wanna bet, McLeod?", he placed both her hands on the wall and covered her lips with his lips!

It was gentle kiss at first, but when she didn't pushed him away, Alex deepened the kiss causing Claire to moan softly. That was when all his hidden feelings for her, all his hidden love for her came up on the surface and he let her hands off and hugged her around her waist, pulling her closer to him.

Claire couldn't believe that this was really happening! As Alex's lips travelled down her neck, she caressed his shoulders and pulled him back to meet his lips again.

They were both breathless and Alex whispered:

„I love you, Claire..."

„I love you, too, Alex...", she whispered back and kissed him passionately.