When You Were Mine (A Moreno Brother's Novella) by Elizabeth Reyes

Author:Elizabeth Reyes [Reyes, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00M9ISFZI
Published: 2014-08-03T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Yoshi?” Valerie stated the obvious with a big smile as they drove into the parking lot.

They hadn’t been back here since that very first time he brought her here. The day they took the walk on the beach and he kissed her for the first time. At least not together. She’d been back a few times with her girlfriends and even once with another guy, but they’d just never made it back here together since that day.

“I know we ate at the barbeque, but—”

“Oh, I can eat again,” she said, grinning. “We ate over an hour ago.”

Alex laughed. “I figured as much.”

They parked and got out then walked into the sushi bar hand in hand. The place was fairly empty considering it was a Saturday night, so they took a seat right at the sushi bar. She figured, like Romero’s uncles and Alex’s friend Chels, many were gathered in groups somewhere still buzzing over the fight. This was huge.

Valerie had been so distracted and still glowing over Alex’s admission that he was fucking crazy about her to give the fight much thought. One of the televisions in the bar area was showing highlights of the fight or rather single round that ended so unexpectedly.

Alex laughed, shaking his head. “I wonder how much money Romero lost.”

“He bet on Sanchez?” Valerie asked, suddenly chuckling herself.

“Yeah,” Alex said as the waitress approached to take their drink orders.

Before Valerie could say what she wanted, Alex ordered for them. Two large Japanese beers. The waitress asked for both their ID’s and inspected them.

“Remember?” he asked as they both put away their ID’s and the waitress walked away. “You said the tall chilled bottles of beer looked so good that first day. But we were both underage.”

She smiled but wouldn’t mention that she’d since satisfied her craving to try one. It was still sweet of him to remember. “Why, Mr. Moreno, I didn’t think your memory was that good.”

“Not really,” he admitted with a smile then kissed her hand. “But when we walked in and I saw someone drinking one, it reminded me.”

He leaned in and kissed her lips, and then they both studied the plastic menus they’d been handed with pictures and the description of the many sushi rolls that were offered.

“They all look so good,” she said, sinking her teeth into her bottom lip.

“Order whatever and as much,” he added with a smirk, “as your little heart desires.”

The waitress brought their beers, and they each put in their first order of the all-you-can-eat dinner. Valerie excused herself to the ladies’ room. When she got back, Alex was gone. His keys and beer were still at the sushi bar where he’d been sitting, but he wasn’t there. She glanced around as she sat down assuming he must’ve gone to the men’s room.

“Valerie.”

She turned curiously to see who it was because she didn’t recognize the voice. As soon as she saw them, she smiled. “Oh, hey, Elijah.”

Elijah was a broker at her office whom she’d shadowed a few times, so, of course, she knew his name.

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