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I was finishing up the last of the contracts when I started thinking about my dinner with Les tonight. There were so many questions flowing through my mind I wouldn’t have known which one to seek an answer for first.
It wasn’t like we hadn’t eaten together before, but there was something different about this time, and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Geez, I was worrying about having dinner with one of my best friends, what was wrong with me.
But, then there was that strange pulling feeling I’d felt when I was near him lately. I didn’t have any idea what that was about. I shook my head to clear those thoughts, I’m not going to worry about it, its dinner with Les and I was going to look forward to it.
I needed to go check with Hector to make sure all the newbies had been taken care of, and head down to the gun Range.
I found Hector and Gig looking over some new computer programming, they looked like two kids at Christmas. Who knew programming could be that exciting?
“So, should I leave you two alone, or can I come in?” I had to laugh at the expression on their faces.
“Come on in,” was Gig’s response. “We just found a program that may solve a few tracking issues we were having.”
Hector walked over and kissed the top of my head, “What brings you to me Angelita?”
I kissed his teardrops, “Just wanted to see if everyone had been set up for access, and see how you both were doing.”
“It’s good. He’s a big help, we solve some issues.”
“I won’t keep you then.” I left them as they continued to look over the new program with much more excitement than it warranted.
I started to walk towards the break room to grab a cup of coffee when I heard Woody’s voice; I turned abruptly to head towards him when I stumbled. Two very strong arms caught me before I fell on my face, as I blushed in embarrassment I looked up to see who my knight in black t-shirt was and found myself looking into Diablo’s eyes.
He smiled and once again short circuited my thought process as he said, “We are going to have to stop meeting like this. I rather enjoy having you in my arms and would be happy to move this to a private venue if you would prefer.”
“I’m so sorry,” was all I could squeak out.
“It’s all right Belleza, it’s really no problem.” He lowered his mouth to place it next to her ear and whispered, “Anytime, anywhere.”
“Thank you.” Geez, I was becoming the queen of short sentences, what the hell was wrong with me? I started to walk away when Diablo stopped me.
“Since you seem to be falling for me, at least twice, how about we grab a bite to eat?” he asked
I couldn’t help but tease, maybe it was that damn sexy smile, “Falling for you? Arrogant are we? I
consider it more like you blocking my exit.” I grinned up at him.
“You fell into my arms, I don’t think I should see it any other way.” He laughed.
“Only briefly, I didn’t stay in your arms.” I countered.
He lowered his voice to very sexy rumble, “I could change that, and just let me know when you think you can handle me.”
Holy cow, is it hot in here? “Are you sure you could handle me?” I didn’t know where this bold woman was coming from, but she was sure fun.
“Without a doubt. So how about we start with lunch? I’m sure you know a great place to eat.”
“I do indeed. Am I safe having lunch with you, or do I need a chaperone?”
A wicked laugh escaped Diablo, “I promise your virtue is safe for today, I make no guarantees for the future though.”
“Alright then, how does pizza sound?”
“Sounds great Belleza. Lead the way.” He allowed Steph to step in front him to head out and a smile played across his lips as he watched her ass sashay as she walked.
As they were getting in Steph’s truck Les came out of a meeting with Tank and headed to the control room for monitor duty. He came up to Vince who he was replacing and asked, “Anything happening?”
Vince laughed, “Sometimes I wish something would happen man.”
Les agreed, “Monitor duty dies suck. That’s why we have short shifts on it.” At that moment on the monitors he saw Steph in the garage with Diablo. He watched them get in her truck and drive off. He was suddenly overwhelmed with a feeling he couldn’t put a name to. All he did know was that he wanted to take Diablo to the mats for looking at his woman.
Shit, he thought, when the hell did I become Ranger? My woman? I worked on getting control, remembering that I had a date with Steph tonight. I could hardly wait for tonight, but for right now I was going to watch a replay of the camera’s and see if I could find out what Diablo was doing with my woman.
Steph and Diablo returned from their lunch at Pinos laughing. Diablo asked again, “Seriously, a garbage truck smooshed a Porsche? I can’t believe that happened.”
“It did, but it wasn’t my fault” I explained. “But I need to get to the Gun Range and you need to go find your partner.”
“Alright, as long as we can get together again, maybe a motorcycle ride to the beach?” Diablo turned up the charm a little, “Please?”
I had a lot of fun at lunch; Diablo was funny, intelligent and a great conversationalist, “How about we’ll see?”
“I’ll take it for now, but,” he lowered his voice, “I’m not giving up.”
“Understood.” I headed down to the gun range as Diablo was thinking of ways to get me to change my mind.
Les watched as Steph headed to the gun range wondering if he had enough planned for their date tonight.
Steph was getting ready to fire her second set of rounds as she was lost in thoughts about dinner tonight with Les, I know he’d told me to wear jeans and comfortable clothes, so I had to wonder where we were going. Really, I had quite a few questions about the whole thing, but my gut was telling me to relax and just go with it and despite how I’d normally react, this time I was going to listen.
I finished shooting off my rounds and headed up to seven. I wanted to shower and figure out what I was going to wear. It may just be jeans, but I’m a Jersey girl and even such a simple dress requirement required thought.
I finally decided on a light cotton sweater that was ivory that had a blue camisole that matched my eyes under it and paired that with my brown suede boots. I never seemed to get to wear those often enough.
I was finishing up getting ready when I noticed that it was just about 7:00, he would be here any second. I looked in the mirror one more time to make sure I looked alright and sat down with a bottle of water.
Before my nerves took over there was a knock at my door, I took a deep breath and opened the door. There stood Les, and I almost felt like I’d never seen him before. It was strange and I couldn’t have explained it if I tried.
He was incredibly sexy standing there in his blue jeans, navy Henley, and that breathtaking smile. His eyes were sparkling and he had an air about him that seemed different somehow.
He held his hand out for mine and asked, “Ready to head out Beautiful?”
I put my hand in his, “Yes I am Les.” He led me out the door and we headed to the garage.
“Do I get to know where we’re headed?”
He opened the car door for me, “I thought we’d head to a little place that I found and have a moonlight picnic.” He seemed nervous.
I was stunned and speechless, it sounded wonderful. I looked at him, smiled and kissed his cheek. “I think that sounds absolutely breathtaking.”
He visibly relaxed, “Let’s go, Beautiful.” He handed me his CD case, “Pick us some driving music.”
“Les, we could close our eyes and pick tunes, our taste in music is identical.”I laughed.
“I always said we’d make beautiful music together.” He smirked.
“You wish.” I smacked his thigh gently.
He took my hand in his, brought it to his lips and kissed it and I felt that pull again. “Beautiful, what if I told you I wanted to take our friendship and grow on it? That I would like to have more with you?”
I looked at our hands and the way they fit together, how they were joined as one, and what I’d felt lately when I was near Les. “Can I ask you when you started to feel this way?”
“Truthfully,” he sighed, “it has been a very long time. There was always some reason I felt I shouldn’t, couldn’t or that I wouldn’t tell you. Joe, Ranger or my own fears, take your pick. When we lost Ranger I couldn’t talk about it. We were all going through way too much.”
“But I thought about it, and in part his death made me realize that I needed to tell you. Not because he was out of the picture, but because it brought home the fact that life was too short.”
I started to interrupt, but he shook his head, “But then I wanted to give us all time to mourn and recover, but I don’t want to go another day without telling you. I know you’ve always thought me a player and in part that was true, in the past. Think about it, have you seen me act in that manner for the past two years?”
“I stopped looking for a woman of the moment two years ago, when I found the one I didn’t want to be without.”He squeezed my hand, “Now you know.”
I couldn’t stop the tears from rolling gently down my face, “Les, that’s a lot to keep inside. You could have told me.”
“Maybe, but I wasn’t about to jeopardize our friendship either. And then so much changed, we all changed after his death.”
“You’re right, a lot has changed.” It was my turn to sigh, “Can I ask you a question? Have you felt something different when you’ve been around me? Not emotionally, but physically?”
Les nodded, “Kind of like a magnet, I figured it was just some weird fluke.”
“I’ve felt it as well.” I looked back down at our joined hands, “You’re my best friend Les, but I’ll be honest, I don’t think the feelings I have for you are just friendly. I’ve been afraid to say anything, mostly fear and my track record.”
“Seems we’re on the same page, Beautiful, also that we’ve both been afraid to speak. That needs to end now. No more hiding for either of us.” He pulled into a driveway.
“We’re here,” He turned to face me and take my face in his hands, “I will not hide my feelings anymore, when we step out of this truck, we step out together to discover where our feelings lead us. Okay?”
I smiled, “Okay.”
Les drew me closer, “Now I’m going to do something that I’ve wanted to do for way too long.” His head lowered to mine as his lips gently captured mine in a kiss.
And I heard a voice whisper-Time for you to fly, Babe.
It wasn’t like we hadn’t eaten together before, but there was something different about this time, and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Geez, I was worrying about having dinner with one of my best friends, what was wrong with me.
But, then there was that strange pulling feeling I’d felt when I was near him lately. I didn’t have any idea what that was about. I shook my head to clear those thoughts, I’m not going to worry about it, its dinner with Les and I was going to look forward to it.
I needed to go check with Hector to make sure all the newbies had been taken care of, and head down to the gun Range.
I found Hector and Gig looking over some new computer programming, they looked like two kids at Christmas. Who knew programming could be that exciting?
“So, should I leave you two alone, or can I come in?” I had to laugh at the expression on their faces.
“Come on in,” was Gig’s response. “We just found a program that may solve a few tracking issues we were having.”
Hector walked over and kissed the top of my head, “What brings you to me Angelita?”
I kissed his teardrops, “Just wanted to see if everyone had been set up for access, and see how you both were doing.”
“It’s good. He’s a big help, we solve some issues.”
“I won’t keep you then.” I left them as they continued to look over the new program with much more excitement than it warranted.
I started to walk towards the break room to grab a cup of coffee when I heard Woody’s voice; I turned abruptly to head towards him when I stumbled. Two very strong arms caught me before I fell on my face, as I blushed in embarrassment I looked up to see who my knight in black t-shirt was and found myself looking into Diablo’s eyes.
He smiled and once again short circuited my thought process as he said, “We are going to have to stop meeting like this. I rather enjoy having you in my arms and would be happy to move this to a private venue if you would prefer.”
“I’m so sorry,” was all I could squeak out.
“It’s all right Belleza, it’s really no problem.” He lowered his mouth to place it next to her ear and whispered, “Anytime, anywhere.”
“Thank you.” Geez, I was becoming the queen of short sentences, what the hell was wrong with me? I started to walk away when Diablo stopped me.
“Since you seem to be falling for me, at least twice, how about we grab a bite to eat?” he asked
I couldn’t help but tease, maybe it was that damn sexy smile, “Falling for you? Arrogant are we? I
consider it more like you blocking my exit.” I grinned up at him.
“You fell into my arms, I don’t think I should see it any other way.” He laughed.
“Only briefly, I didn’t stay in your arms.” I countered.
He lowered his voice to very sexy rumble, “I could change that, and just let me know when you think you can handle me.”
Holy cow, is it hot in here? “Are you sure you could handle me?” I didn’t know where this bold woman was coming from, but she was sure fun.
“Without a doubt. So how about we start with lunch? I’m sure you know a great place to eat.”
“I do indeed. Am I safe having lunch with you, or do I need a chaperone?”
A wicked laugh escaped Diablo, “I promise your virtue is safe for today, I make no guarantees for the future though.”
“Alright then, how does pizza sound?”
“Sounds great Belleza. Lead the way.” He allowed Steph to step in front him to head out and a smile played across his lips as he watched her ass sashay as she walked.
As they were getting in Steph’s truck Les came out of a meeting with Tank and headed to the control room for monitor duty. He came up to Vince who he was replacing and asked, “Anything happening?”
Vince laughed, “Sometimes I wish something would happen man.”
Les agreed, “Monitor duty dies suck. That’s why we have short shifts on it.” At that moment on the monitors he saw Steph in the garage with Diablo. He watched them get in her truck and drive off. He was suddenly overwhelmed with a feeling he couldn’t put a name to. All he did know was that he wanted to take Diablo to the mats for looking at his woman.
Shit, he thought, when the hell did I become Ranger? My woman? I worked on getting control, remembering that I had a date with Steph tonight. I could hardly wait for tonight, but for right now I was going to watch a replay of the camera’s and see if I could find out what Diablo was doing with my woman.
Steph and Diablo returned from their lunch at Pinos laughing. Diablo asked again, “Seriously, a garbage truck smooshed a Porsche? I can’t believe that happened.”
“It did, but it wasn’t my fault” I explained. “But I need to get to the Gun Range and you need to go find your partner.”
“Alright, as long as we can get together again, maybe a motorcycle ride to the beach?” Diablo turned up the charm a little, “Please?”
I had a lot of fun at lunch; Diablo was funny, intelligent and a great conversationalist, “How about we’ll see?”
“I’ll take it for now, but,” he lowered his voice, “I’m not giving up.”
“Understood.” I headed down to the gun range as Diablo was thinking of ways to get me to change my mind.
Les watched as Steph headed to the gun range wondering if he had enough planned for their date tonight.
Steph was getting ready to fire her second set of rounds as she was lost in thoughts about dinner tonight with Les, I know he’d told me to wear jeans and comfortable clothes, so I had to wonder where we were going. Really, I had quite a few questions about the whole thing, but my gut was telling me to relax and just go with it and despite how I’d normally react, this time I was going to listen.
I finished shooting off my rounds and headed up to seven. I wanted to shower and figure out what I was going to wear. It may just be jeans, but I’m a Jersey girl and even such a simple dress requirement required thought.
I finally decided on a light cotton sweater that was ivory that had a blue camisole that matched my eyes under it and paired that with my brown suede boots. I never seemed to get to wear those often enough.
I was finishing up getting ready when I noticed that it was just about 7:00, he would be here any second. I looked in the mirror one more time to make sure I looked alright and sat down with a bottle of water.
Before my nerves took over there was a knock at my door, I took a deep breath and opened the door. There stood Les, and I almost felt like I’d never seen him before. It was strange and I couldn’t have explained it if I tried.
He was incredibly sexy standing there in his blue jeans, navy Henley, and that breathtaking smile. His eyes were sparkling and he had an air about him that seemed different somehow.
He held his hand out for mine and asked, “Ready to head out Beautiful?”
I put my hand in his, “Yes I am Les.” He led me out the door and we headed to the garage.
“Do I get to know where we’re headed?”
He opened the car door for me, “I thought we’d head to a little place that I found and have a moonlight picnic.” He seemed nervous.
I was stunned and speechless, it sounded wonderful. I looked at him, smiled and kissed his cheek. “I think that sounds absolutely breathtaking.”
He visibly relaxed, “Let’s go, Beautiful.” He handed me his CD case, “Pick us some driving music.”
“Les, we could close our eyes and pick tunes, our taste in music is identical.”I laughed.
“I always said we’d make beautiful music together.” He smirked.
“You wish.” I smacked his thigh gently.
He took my hand in his, brought it to his lips and kissed it and I felt that pull again. “Beautiful, what if I told you I wanted to take our friendship and grow on it? That I would like to have more with you?”
I looked at our hands and the way they fit together, how they were joined as one, and what I’d felt lately when I was near Les. “Can I ask you when you started to feel this way?”
“Truthfully,” he sighed, “it has been a very long time. There was always some reason I felt I shouldn’t, couldn’t or that I wouldn’t tell you. Joe, Ranger or my own fears, take your pick. When we lost Ranger I couldn’t talk about it. We were all going through way too much.”
“But I thought about it, and in part his death made me realize that I needed to tell you. Not because he was out of the picture, but because it brought home the fact that life was too short.”
I started to interrupt, but he shook his head, “But then I wanted to give us all time to mourn and recover, but I don’t want to go another day without telling you. I know you’ve always thought me a player and in part that was true, in the past. Think about it, have you seen me act in that manner for the past two years?”
“I stopped looking for a woman of the moment two years ago, when I found the one I didn’t want to be without.”He squeezed my hand, “Now you know.”
I couldn’t stop the tears from rolling gently down my face, “Les, that’s a lot to keep inside. You could have told me.”
“Maybe, but I wasn’t about to jeopardize our friendship either. And then so much changed, we all changed after his death.”
“You’re right, a lot has changed.” It was my turn to sigh, “Can I ask you a question? Have you felt something different when you’ve been around me? Not emotionally, but physically?”
Les nodded, “Kind of like a magnet, I figured it was just some weird fluke.”
“I’ve felt it as well.” I looked back down at our joined hands, “You’re my best friend Les, but I’ll be honest, I don’t think the feelings I have for you are just friendly. I’ve been afraid to say anything, mostly fear and my track record.”
“Seems we’re on the same page, Beautiful, also that we’ve both been afraid to speak. That needs to end now. No more hiding for either of us.” He pulled into a driveway.
“We’re here,” He turned to face me and take my face in his hands, “I will not hide my feelings anymore, when we step out of this truck, we step out together to discover where our feelings lead us. Okay?”
I smiled, “Okay.”
Les drew me closer, “Now I’m going to do something that I’ve wanted to do for way too long.” His head lowered to mine as his lips gently captured mine in a kiss.
And I heard a voice whisper-Time for you to fly, Babe.
