The first time he saw Toni, it was at the local nightclub, Riptide.
‘So damn hot.’ Christopher thought, as he watched the stranger out on the dance floor, moving sensuously to the music.
“You should ask for a dance.” His friend and fellow firefighter, Simon, urged him.
Christopher rolled his eyes at the suggestion.
“I can’t dance.”
“Yeah, right, I’ve seen you moving in the flames, don’t you give me that shit!” Simon laughed, “Go on!”
Simon pushed Chris roughly toward the dancing stranger and, once he started moving, Chris couldn’t stop his forward momentum. As if drawn my some magnetic force, his feet propelled him unerringly toward the object of his attention.
As he came close, emerald eyes slit open to meet his own, plain brown orbs. Chris could almost feel the sparks dancing between them.
“May I have this dance?”
At the time, he’d thought that was the most lame thing he could say.
“You can have all my dances, handsome.”
Yet here he was, eight years later, with Toni curled into his arms as they lounged in bed on a rainy, autumn morning.
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