No Regrets by Claire Kent

Author:Claire Kent [Kent, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Women, Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Fiction
Published: 2014-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

Nine

For a week afterwards, I didn’t call Josh.

I felt weird and heavy about the whole thing. Not like he’d done anything wrong, but like there was something not quite right about the way we were together.

I focused on work and hung out with friends and tried to refamiliarize myself with my regular life.

I thought about Josh a lot. I missed him—and not just the sex. But there was always this resistance to picking up the phone and calling him.

I knew he’d always left it to me to initiate our times together. Since we hadn’t made arrangements to get together when he left my place the morning after we’d had anal sex, I knew he was probably just waiting for me to contact him.

But the truth was I wanted him to call me. I wanted him to miss me—want to see me—enough to get over his sense that I should be the one in the driver’s seat. Even if he was trying to be sensitive, since he was the one who’d laid the ground rules about the sex just being casual, I wanted him to want me enough to stop being sensitive and considerate.

Maybe it was an unfair expectation, given the way we’d established the relationship, but I felt it strongly enough that I didn’t cave. I didn’t call him.

So a week passed, and I didn’t hear from him. Then eight days. Then nine.

And finally I was resigning myself to this thing between us being over for good.

Maybe it was for the best. It had been exciting and intoxicating and pleasurable in a number of ways. But I kept thinking about the future, and there was only so long something like this could be sustained.

Then, on a Monday evening, I went to the park to run after work. I’d gone a few times and hadn’t seen Josh so I figured he was probably avoiding the times when he knew I was likely to be there.

But today I saw his old SUV, parked in the parking lot.

My heart jumped into my throat.

I parked in my normal place, in the far corner in the shade, and I walked slowly toward the running track.

Part of me wanted to turn around and run back to my car and drive away, but that would be silly.

If he’d come today, he must know there was a chance to run into me. It wasn’t like I was stalking him or trying to be places I thought he would be.

I was trying to get back into shape, and I wasn’t going to stop that because I was afraid to see him.

I’d assumed he’d be running, but he wasn’t. He was standing near the start of the track, checking something on his phone.

I swallowed hard and hesitated, wondering if I should go over to him.

It was so strange. Ten days ago, his cock had been in my butt. And today I wasn’t sure whether he even wanted to talk to me.

He looked up then and saw me, and he immediately started over.

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