Page 14 of Bitten By Desire
He cleared his throat. “I must just have one of those faces.”
Was he kidding? He did not have a face like anyone else I’d ever met. He was…perfect. Beautiful. But why was he staring at me like I was crazy?
“I’m sorry…Ellen was it?”
“Emma.” Now he was just pissing me off.
“I have no idea who Callum is. Or what the Wildcats are. And I’m late for a meeting. If you’ll excuse me…”
“No.” The word just tumbled out of me. I hadn’t waited ten years to see him again for him to walk away. Just like he had last time. When he’d walked out of my life without another glance. “Callum, you…”
“My name is Theo Gold. I’m sorry, you must be confused.”
I wanted to slap him. But I just stood frozen in place. Staring at the ghost that haunted my dreams.
He glanced down at the camera around my neck.
For a second, I thought he was going to say something. That maybe the camera would make him remember.
But then his eyes trailed back up to meet mine. “I really must be going, Emma.” He said my name just like he had ten years ago when he’d told me how to pose. When he’d taken pictures of my exposed skin. When he’d thrust deep inside of me.
I touched the side of my neck where he’d sucked on my skin so hard that it bruised. I could practically still feel his lips.
But he didn’t drop his gaze to my neck. Instead, he turned and walked away. But this time he glanced over his shoulder once. To see me still staring.
That was not Theo Gold. That was Callum freaking Walsh. I was sure of it.
He climbed into a sleek black sedan and drove away.
I lifted my camera and snapped a picture of his license plate. He wasn’t going to get away from me so easily this time.
I ran into the market and looked around for Zoey. It only took me a minute to find her comparing the size of two cucumbers.
“Zoey!” I ran up to her.
“Oh, no,” she said. “Bennett had a micro penis after all?” She shook her head. “I was a little worried about his energy. What a bust.”
So she did think he had a small dick? Why had she set me up with him?! “No. I didn’t sleep with him after just meeting him. I didn’t meet him at all.”
“What?” She put the larger cucumber in her grocery basket. “Why would you stand him up? I take back what I said about his energy. I think he’s probably the size of…that cucumber.” She pointed to the smaller one that she’d discarded. Which was still huge.
I ignored everything she just said. “I saw Callum.”
“Coach Walsh?”
“What other Callum would I be talking about?”
She shook her head and grabbed an eggplant. “I think you probablythoughtyou saw him. But it was definitely just in your head. Like when we went to that party senior year and you ran up to that guy who was most definitely not him.”
That happened one time!“It wasn’t in my head. I just ran into Callum outside. Literally.”
She walked over to a banana stand and grabbed several. Did she only eat penis shaped food now?
“Zoey, I’m serious. Why don’t you believe me?”
“Because I’ve been living in this town for two years. You don’t think I would have told you if I had run into the mysterious Callum Walsh? He doesn’t live here.”
“But I just saw him!” I grabbed her arm to pull her out of the store. As if showing her the empty parkingspace his car had been in would help. It wouldn’t. She thought I was nuts.
