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Chapter 17
I stood behind Daves door at hotel and I have to admit, that I was nervous. My palms were sweating and my heart was jumping up and down. That was a bit strange, because I had never felt like that and I had been in same kind of situations before, or maybe not quite same, but anyway...
I took a deep breath and knocked his door. It didn't take too long, when he opened it and I almost got breathless. He looked so damn good on his dark suit...
"Con, come in." He turned from door and I stepped in, only to stood infront door and staring at his livingroom. The table was set in the middle of the room, there was two candles burning and two glasses and two bottles of white wine. What that man had planned?
"Con? Are you alright?" Dave asked and when I turned to look at him, his eyes were very amused.
"What? Why? When? How?" Wow, way to go Con, stun the guy with your amazing discussion skills! I thought, but I just couldn't say anything else. Dave didn't even try to answer my one-syllabe questions.
"Surprise." He smiled.
"Yes, it really is." I blurred out, not very brainy, but what can woman do, when mind just isn't in function?
"Come to sit." Dave took my arm and led me to couch. I sat down and turned to him.
"What is this? You shouldn't have done this..."
"I wanted to."
"Hmm... But shoudn't you be celebrating your big win with others?" I had been wondering, that why he hadn't done that, it was a very big night for him.
"I want to spend the evening with you." He smiled. "And I'm not really up to that celebrating thing now. I can do it later."
"You want?" Still my brain wasn't obviously working...
"Yes." And again he smiled that cute smile, which got my knees weak, thank God I was sitting.
"Now, we have something to drink here..."
My eyes saw only the wine bottles, oh how I wanted to pour the whole bottle down of my throat... I'm not any kind of alcoholic or anything, actually I can't bear alcohol very well, but this situation was quite confusing and... Well, everything.
Dave poured some wine to glasses and gave me the other one.
"To your World Heavyweight title." I raised the glass.
"Yes, to it." Dave said.
We talked different things first, like how was Caitlin doing, about Chris – which was weird, and generally everything what came to our minds. Dave was clearly avoiding the real reason, why he had asked me there. And I avoided asking about it. Though, I suspected that I did know the reason, I just wanted to give him the change to take it as a subject.
"So, you might wonder why I really asked you there?" Gosh, was that man mind reader, or what?
"Well, kind of... Though I guess we have to talk about us... I mean you and me..." And again, my Canadian genes, which always had the smart answer, weren't working.
"Yeah. And here isn't anyone else than we two, so it's quite obvious." And then he laughed.
The bastard laughed! Oh, sorry I didn't really think he was a bastard, he's a cute, sweet, caring man. But still I just glared at him.
"Sorry, I just couldn't resist..."
"Yeah, I kind of noticed that..."
We sat on silence for a moment and I drank, which was a mistake, like I found out later on.
"So, the reason why I asked you here..." Dave paused for a moment. "I wanted you to know, that I do like you very much."
"I like you too." I said quietly.
"Yeah, Chris told me." He grinned a little.
"Oh yes, you said that he had told you something. What did he exactly say?" I asked thought I wasn't sure if I wanted to know, my brother is sometimes quite a loud mouth.
"He said that..." Dave smiled. "That you are in love with me."
Well, that was quite direct answer to my question, and I actually knew that Chris was right, but he didn't have to say it to Daves face. I was pretty confused and speechless and just stared at the man, who looked at me closely. And, damn he looked still good in that dark suit...
"Constantine? Are you alright?" He was a little amused.
"Yes, I'm a little tipsy and everything has just been so strange lately." I blurred out what first came to my confused mind.
"Con, just relax. I'm not going to hurt you at anyway." Well, at least he saw that I was nervous, but I really didn't thought that he was going to hurt me.
"I have never thought that you would. I just..." I choose my words carefully in my tipsy mind. "I just don't know what you think of me."
"Isn't that quite obvious?" Dave raised his eyebrows. "From the very first time I saw you, I liked you."
"Really?"
"Yeah, but I was going through my divorce, you were pregnant, Randy started to show interest in you. I just couldn't say anything to you." He was now very serious.
"But you got through your divorce. I have a sweet little girl, who you love, right?" I looked at him and when he had nodded and carried on. "And I have never cared about Randy like I care you. Actually Chris was right, I do love you. Seems like our siblings would like to see us together."
I took a sip of wine and waited him to say something.
"Why do you think that?"
"Well, Chris said something to you. And your sister said something to me."
"What Sarah said to you then?" He looked at me interested.
"She said that you are crazy about only one woman..."
"Yes, there she was right."
"Was she?" I looked at him closely.
Then I felt that the wine started to go my head and I was quite overwhelmed. So, I started to feel sick. Before Dave had the change to say anything, I stood up.
"I... I feel a little sick." Then I ran to bathroom.
I threw up and then I washed my face with cool water. After that I stared to a mirror for a moment. Dave knocked to door and when I heard him asking that was I alright, I smiled a little. Same kind of occasion a year ago came to my mind, only then I wasn't a bit drunk, then I was pregnant.
"I'm alright. That wine just was a bit too much." I answered when I stepped out of the bathroom.
"Are you sure?" His brown eyes looked at me closely.
"Yeah, I'm sure." I smiled and sat back to couch. "So, where are we now? I mean..."
"I know what you mean." Dave sat next to me. "I would like to have a change to be with you. In relationship."
Oh, that was the thing I had wanted to hear from him almost for a year. I still couldn't say anything, though in some level I had been expecting it. The thing was, that how it was going to work? Well, I would be back in work in a month, so then we would see almost daily basis, but something was still holding me. I know, it was stupid, that I didn't lunge to his arms and yelled 'yes, yes, yes!' But there was this thing.
"You have no idea, how much I want that too." I finally sighed. "But, I have Caitlin, are you sure you can handle that?" Well, that was a stupid question. I knew that he loved her and had three daughers of his own, so he can surely manage with girls.
"Yeah, I can handle it." His eyes were very serious. "But that isn't the real reason for this hesitation, is it?"
That man has learned to read me quite well during the last year, although we had seen each other only few times during my leave.
"No, it isn't." I took a deep breath, I hated to say it, but I had to. "I'm just not sure if it would work. I'm still in leave and you are travelling around and..."
"But you are back work in month, aren't you?" Dave interrupted me.
"Yes I am." For some reason I stood up and stumbled to my feet so, that I fell on Daves lap and felt his arms around me.
"Oops, be careful." He sounded a bit amused and I saw that his eyes were very, very amused.
"Sorry, I'm still a bit drunk..." I mumbled.
"It doesn't matter. What were you saying?"
"Yes... I just thought, that if it don't work..." I just couldn't concentrate on my words, because he was still holding me. "You can let me go now."
"We can make it work." He smiled. "And I do't want to let you go."
That took totally my breath away and I leaned my head to his chest. We were silent for a moment and then Dave laughed a little.
"Chris has been nagging me last months that we really should get together."
"Yeah, I can guess that. He's been nagging to me about it also." I said and lifted my eyes up. "So, what are we going to do?"
"Like I said, I want nothing else, that have a change with you."
"Yes." Well, that was simple and a bit weird answer, but he got the point.
"I'm happy that it happens finally."
"Me too, Dave. Me too."
We talked a while still and then I went back to my room, because I was really tired. When I opened our door, I saw that AJ wasn't back yet. I didn't want to answer his nosy questions and I had to make clear to myself, what just had happened.
So, finally it happened... Lol
