The day started out much like any other day but its end will live in my dreams forever.
My name is Anna and this is my story...
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I am a wedding planner and I was currently working on two weddings the Billings wedding and the O'Neil wedding. Never would I have imagined that in doing so I would find the man of my dreams. The O'Neil's had chosen a florist they wanted to go with instead of using the one that I volunteered. So I was driving through rush hour traffic trying to get down town before they closed. I was already very aggravated because I was on the phone arguing with the bakery about having the cake done on time.
When I finally pulled up to the shop the lights were off. I rushed from my car and ran to the door. Looking through the window I saw a shadow of someone in the back through the adjoining door. So I knocked on the glass door. I heard someone yell from the back "we're closed." After the day I had there was no way I was going to leave this shop without talking to someone.
So I continued knocking until I heard a loud cuss and bang coming from the back room. When the door opened I saw him for the first time. He was muscled and dark. His hair was black, his eyes blue and he had a five o'clock shadow. "Can't you read, we're closed!" He said sarcastically.
"I see that yes, but if I could just talk to you for a moment." I said to him. I could not take my eyes off him. He was the epitome of sex. The shirt he wore was tight to his chest and every muscle showed through. There was a hint of hair just below the V of his collar. My eyes followed the line of his chest all the way down to the waist of his jeans.
I heard him chuckle and my eyes shot up to his. When I looked at him I knew I was caught. His smile lit up his face and made him look so unbelievably sexy that my mouth actually watered. I felt my face go hot and knew my cheeks were getting red. I took a step back and a deep breath and said "I am looking for Decklin MacDuff."
He stepped out of the door and stood in front of me just inches from my face and said. "I'm Decklin, who are you?"
The fact that he was just inches from me made it impossible not to breathe him in. His scent was mesmerizing, intoxicating. My head began to feel light and I licked my lips. I watched his eyes shoot to my mouth and watch as my tongue slid over my lips. My body was betraying me, I had never had this reaction to any man. I could feel my nipples harden through my shirt and I began to feel warm all over.
I tried to speak but my mouth was dry. I didn't understand what was happening but I also did not want it to stop. I tried to take a step back and tripped over my own feet. It all happened so fast one minute I was standing in front of him the next I was in his arms. He lifted me up and carried me inside kicking the door closed with his foot. He walked to the back room and sat me down on a counter and went to get me a glass of water.
I took this time to try and regain some of my composure. I took a few deep breaths and closed my eyes. I kept telling myself over and over, "you're a professional, he is just a man, nothing special. Get a hold of yourself."
Within moments he was back and handing me a glass of water. "Here try this," he told me smiling. I felt like a fool, I was acting like a teenager. I took the glass and chugged it down. I didn't realize my mouth was so dry till the cold water hit my lips. I drank it so fast that some of the water spilled out and ran down my chin.
He reached out his hand and with his thumb he wiped the water from my chin. My eyes went to his when his hand touched my face and I could not look away from him. His fingers were rough, it had been a long time since anyone had touched me that way and my throat began to get dry all over again.
I pulled back from him and shoved the glass out to him. "Could I have some more please?" I asked. I looked down and saw that there was a piece of paper on the counter with the list of flowers on it. Grateful to have the distraction I picked it up and started skimming over it.
"It's for a wedding I've contracted well not really contracted, the groom is my best friend and I am the best man so I offered to do it."
"Who's wedding?" I asked not looking at him.
"Mark O'Neil."
"No you're not, the best man is a guy named Mac." I said to him
"Wait how you know that?" he asked.
"I'm Anna Levey, the wedding planner." I told him. "We were supposed to meet last week but you never showed up for your fitting. Didn't your mother ever tell you it is not proper to make plans with someone then not call to say you won't make it? I waited at that dam shop for three hours."
"Whoa," he said backing away. "Didn't Mark call you? I had an emergency I was here at the shop till three am." My apologies Anna, if I had known someone as beautiful as you was waiting for me I would have come, screw the emergency."
I felt my face blush again and turned away from him. "Okay well, as long as it was an emergency I guess I can forgive you. I have to say I was a little disappointed when the O' Neil's declined my suggestion for a florist for their wedding. I always use the same one, he is really good. But I see now that they made the right choice, these flower arrangements will complement each other so well Mr. MacDuff." I told him looking at the list.
"Decklin," he said in my ear. "Or if you prefer Mac," I lifted my head quickly and bumped into him knocking the glass of water out of his hand. The water spilled down the front of him before the glass crashed to the floor shattering into pieces.
"I'm so sorry, here let me...." I began. Before I could finish I felt myself being swooped up and carried across the room.
"Sit here," he told me. "You are only wearing sandals I don't want you to get cut."
I watched as he disappeared into a door on the other side of the room then returned with a broom and dustpan. I could not take my eyes off him as he swept up the broken glass. I sat mesmerized and watched the muscle in his arms and back flexed and fill out his shirt more. I think I actually had to wipe a bit of drool from my lip. Or it might have been the water I had been drinking. He finished sweeping up all the glass then got a towel and threw it on the floor over the wet spot before turning his attention back to me. By that time I think I might have been panting like a dog on a hot summer day.