The mailman combed his fingers through his dark, wet hair. “Can you put any weight on it?”
Somehow, I snapped out of the spell he’d put on me. I took a hesitant step and felt no pain. “Yeah, I think I’ll be okay.” For a quick minute, I considered exaggerating my injury and clinging to him like he was the last life jacket on the Titanic, but then I came to my senses. After all, he was basically a stranger, and I was a married mother of two. Blinking out the rain, I smoothed my hands down my tan pencil skirt, then pushed my wet hair out of my face.
He walked me into the empty lobby. Our eyes met, and he smiled. My heart raced as I realized some sort of spark had been ignited between us. His gaze lingered. I’d never seen eyes so beautiful, a smile so white, and hair so thick and unruly. He looked untamable, sexy, hot, and completely fuckable.
“So you’re gonna be all right?”
“I’m fine,” I said in a friendly tone. “I can take it from here. Thanks.”
“Are you sure?”
I took off my other shoe so I wouldn’t be so off balance. The last thing I wanted to do was fall again and look like even more of a klutz in front of him. “I am. Thanks again…and I’m sorry I got you so wet.” But you’re not the only one, buddy, I secretly jested.
He smiled.
“Um…I mean, uh…from the rain,” I stuttered, embarrassed that my mind had somehow decided to take a quick trip to the closest gutter. Biting my lip hard, I turned and walked away.
Inside, I hurried to the bathroom to dry myself off with a short stack of paper towels. I felt like a drowned rat inside, thanks to my neglectful husband, but I certainly didn’t want to look like one at the office.
As I gazed in the mirror, wiping the mascara streaks from my eyes, my mind continued to flash back to the mailman’s perfect face, dripping with water. He had such blue eyes, and he had stared at me through the rain like we were long-lost lovers. There was something about that long, romantic stare that I found quite fascinating and unexplainable, and I couldn’t get it out of my head. It had been a gaze so loving, so tender, so passionate, so magical, and so overwhelming. Or maybe I’m just acting like this because he’s the first guy who’s shown me even an ounce of attention in years, I thought.
I hurried to my desk, plopped down, and did a quick Google search on “love at first sight.” I’d always thought it to be some silly notion, something for schoolgirls and romantic movies, but now I had experienced it myself. But I’m a married woman with two kids, my reasonable side chimed in. “Maybe I am just freaking crazy,” I thought, my eyes glued to the computer screen. The first article explained that the idea could be defined as “a romantic attraction for a stranger felt upon the first encounter, the first time one lays eyes on the other.” Maybe it was pure lust and infatuation that I was feeling, but part of me felt like that man was the missing link in my life, the missing piece of the puzzle.
One of my colleagues looked over my shoulder, startling me. “Love at first sight, huh? What’s with that?” she asked as I jumped in my chair.
I swallowed hard, trying to think of some sort of feasible answer. “Uh…well, I watched one of those corny romance movies last night. I was just wondering if that stuff really happens.”
“What movie?” she pushed.
Damn it. Quit complicating my lies and butt out! “Um…Serendipity.”
“With John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale?”
“Yeah, that was the one.”
“Personally, I only believe in the laws of attraction, something a little more solid.”
“You really don’t believe in this romantic stuff?”
“Nah. That only happens in movies. Fairytale endings are called that for a reason. They just aren’t realistic. Hell, girl, I’m living proof. I’m thirty-one, and I’ve been down the aisle three times and to divorce court twice.” She sighed. “Why? You don’t believe in that mushy-gushy kind of stuff, do you?”
The handsome stranger’s face flashed across my mind. “I didn’t…until today.”
“Ah. So that movie got to you last night, huh?”
“Something like that.”
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