"Five years and that's all you have to say to me?" he asked. Standing so close she could taste his breath.

She wanted to move away from him. But she didn't want him to know just how much he affected her. So she stood right there. She wasn't going to let him intimidate her.


"Well... Is there anything else you want me to say?" she asked 

The side of his mouth moved upwards.

He was smiling? Why the hell was he smiling like that? She thought. She didn't remember saying anything funny.

"You left... Kitty" he said. "I asked you to stay... Begged you to stay... And you left anyways.. With him. And now you come back... Acting like everything is okay between us...?"

There was something about him... She thought. Something about the way he called her 'Kitty' that made her heart flip. He was the only one who called her that. She hadn't even realized how much she missed him calling her that. 

"You shouldn't have gone with him". He said. 

"Oh really? Why not? Because you didn't want me to?" she asked. She was starting to get angry. 

"Yeah that's right" he replied. "And because of what you felt for me -what we felt for each other. When I came near you, you felt an excitement so intense that you ceased to breathe --like you are feeling right now. You wanted me just as much as I wanted you. And that should have been enough to make you stay"

ALWAYS BEEN YOU 

"Besides, he didn't have a big problem with it when he did the same thing to a few companies back in the day." Dimitri added 


That wasn't true, Kelly thought and shook her head. Her father wouldn't do such a thing to anyone. 


"Oh am I?" Dimitri asked, and pulled a bottle of wine and glasses from his drawer. After he had poured them both a drink, he offered her one, which she refused to accept. 


Kelly needed a drink, but she shook her head. She wasn't here to share a drink with him. Unspeakable things seemed to happen whenever she was around this man... Amazing things that made her body tingle all over, she thought, remembering the minutes she had just spent in his arms. 


Whenever she was with him she was wild, crazy and all her inhibitions seemed to be lowered. She didn't want to find out what she would do if she was drunk in a room with him... 


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