Sleeping Secrets by A.W. Kaylen

Author:A.W. Kaylen [Kaylen, A.W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Alden was being a broken record. He knew he was, but sometimes he couldn’t help himself. But he really needed to stop talking about himself before he put her off. He looked up nervously at Gwen again—there she was, practically sparkling with beauty. It made his heart swell. It made his head swell. It made his—then he’d start talking again, about himself, his work, his accomplishments. Even though you weren’t supposed to do that on a date, is talk about yourself all the time, because people didn’t like it when you did that, he’d heard.

He took a big gulp of wine and made himself calm down—impossible while looking at her, so instead he looked around the room: The finely woven tablecloths, the subtle ambient lighting, the arrow-straight posture of the waiters, the polished and well-manicured, costly suit wearing clientele of this establishment, the Fifth Avenue French restaurant Le Flam that he’d never visit in a blue moon, except that this was his blue moon. And also, he’d made a little extra money recently so... Patting his forehead with a tissue, he then said, “Why don’t you tell me more about you, Gwen?”

She smiled at him, and her lips parted like the red sea and her teeth were the land of milk and honey... And Alden saw that it was good. Real good. A sudden hallucination about how she might taste struck him—tightening his heart as if a pro wrestler had just punched a hole in his chest and grabbed it—he felt all the blood of his veins spinning about and his head felt so dizzy it was hard to sit straight. Hell, if he did ever get the chance to kiss her—at this point a mere dream among dreams—he’d have to make sure they were sitting down at the time. All of his attempts at being composed would be so much smoke if he wound up fainting on her like some cheesy damsel from a—

“Alden?” Gwen said.

“Uh, umm, yes?”

“What do you think about that?”

Crap. He hadn’t heard a word she’d said. He’d been too distracted by the way her lips ended in little dimples, the generous size of her bottom lip, and how it squeezed gently when it pressed against the top one. He usually wasn’t this rude—in fact, he was generally very good at giving people attention. Not that he was good at conversing, though—in fact, trying to sort all the ideas in his head and leading them out in an orderly fashion, in real-time, was nothing short of impossible, but he did do the listening. He was a good listener; at least he had thought he was. But he was only human. And how could any mere mortal stand up against the mesmerizing form which was Gwen’s face?

“Is something the matter?” She said, a flash of worry suddenly appearing on that divine face.

He could bluff here, give a non-committal remark, but Alden wouldn’t let himself do that. It would be too much of an insult. No, the only thing to do was come clean.

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