Page 64 of Unforgettable
“I panicked,” she admitted. “I thought… I don’t know what I thought.”
“I do,” he said gently.
Brew stepped closer.
The air between them had been a minefield of jagged silence for days, the weight of themisunderstandingthreatening to snap the final thread of their connection. But as the truth finally tumbled out- messy, desperate, and raw—the static vanished.
“You are unforgettable, Randi,” he said quietly. “I can’t get you out of my mind.”
The moment unfolded slowly, naturally, everything that had been building between them finding its way forward without hesitation.
He didn't wait for her to respond. He moved forward, his hand sliding into the hair at the nape of her neck, his thumb grazingthe frantic pulse at her jaw. When their lips finally met, it wasn't the soft, tentative brush of a fairy tale; it was acollision.
The music swelled around them.
Unforgettable … the song was so fitting, heightening their experience.
It became a frantic pressure of two people who had looked into the abyss of losing each other and decided, in a heartbeat, to crawl back toward the light. She pulled him closer, her fingers clutching without thought at the front of his shirt as if to anchor him there, grounding them both in the sudden, electric reality ofnow.
The anger that had nearly destroyed them burned away, replaced by afeverish hungerthat had been building since the moment they met. In that kiss, the world narrowed down to the heat oftheir skin and the shared, shaky breath of a second chance.
Her response matched his, and together their bodies moved to the rhythm of the song.
Unforgettable…
Nat King Cole’s voice wrapped around the room, smooth and warm, settling into the moment as if it belonged there.
Unforgettable, that's what you are
Unforgettable though near or far
Like a song of love that clings to me
How the thought of you does things to me
Never before has someone been more
Unforgettable in every way
And forevermore, that's how you'll stay
That's why darling, it's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too
When they finally pulled apart, the air between them felt different. Everything seemed clearer, more open and real.
And for the first time since all of this began, there was nothing standing between them.
CHAPTER 15
They separated slowly.
Not because either of them wanted to.
But because they had to.
