‘You’ll be fine,’ she told me, grinning as she lifted my hot, damp hand off her arm. ‘Just take a deep breath and smile.’
And to my surprise it really was as easy as that. When he’d served the customer, he came back, and with our heads almost touching across the bar, we began to talk as though we’d known each other all our lives. Although his English was good, he spoke with an accent and when I asked him where he was from, he told me to guess.
‘Albania,’ I answered immediately and he almost dropped the glass he was holding.
‘How can you possibly know that?’ he asked. ‘No one has ever guessed it before.’
From that moment, we became a couple. We went on our first date two days later and it was as though we had always been a part of each other’s lives – me, the over-cautious ice queen who rarely spoke to men and didn’t trust them when she did, and Erion, the kindest, gentlest, most beautiful man I’d ever seen. It sounds corny, I know, but it was as though he was the missing piece of a jigsaw I’d been searching for. John had filled the empty gap for a while, but had never really fitted the space like Erion did.
And it seemed that Erion felt the same. On our first night out together, he told me, ‘I never notice anyone who comes into the club, but from the moment you walked in, all I could see in my mind were your eyes, just looking at me. I kept thinking, What if she never comes back? What if I never see her again? I couldn’t bear the thought that I might have missed the opportunity to get to know the person I was meant to spend the rest of my life with.’
‘I felt that too!’ I told him. ‘I felt as though I had to know who you were and that if I didn’t find out, there would always be something missing from my life.’
Erion is still the only man I’ve ever truly loved, and I believe he’s the only man who’s ever loved me. One of the greatest regrets of my life will always be that I didn’t fight with all my strength and determination not to lose him.
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