Another Teaser

Just for fun! From Gypsy Afterglow.

I blinked. No, it couldn’t be. Not here. Yet, my eyes would recognize his beautiful face anywhere. The blood rushed in my ears and I thought for a moment my heart might just stop. It was beating erratically enough.
Marco Kaldera. My lips formed his name as I stared. Older, tall, with sinewy muscles and cropped dark hair, but it was definitely him.
I forced myself to inhale so I wouldn’t topple over. When my heart began to beat normally again, I was able to get a better look at him by leaning forward over the table.
The waiter arrived with steaming coffee, which I almost spilled all over the two of us in my rush to appear as if I weren’t lost in my stalking.
“Sorry,” I said, anxious to have him on his way again. He smiled indulgently but I saw him send me a curious glance as he walked away.
Coffee forgotten, I glanced back to where Marco sat. Every nerve in my body came alive and it felt just as intense as when I was eighteen. Someone must have been watching over me for there were no women in the group. Even though I’d been the one to leave, I don’t think I could have handled seeing Marco with another woman. He’d said I’d always be in his life and quite selfishly, I believed him. I wanted him to have waited for me all of these years despite the fact that I could have been happily married with two point five children. That was my fantasy.