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the table. We all eat and drink and finalize the plans since everyone at this table plus Bradi’s boyfriend, Micah and Erik’s boyfriend, Alec are coming on the trip. Lexi kisses Jude one last time and grumbles about needing to get back to work. She bakes everything in this place and they sell out every single day, so she’s trying to create a surplus for the weekend. Erik says he needs to get back behind the counter. He’s the coffee guru in this place. Blue and Jessie leave, Liam and Clove head home to pack a bit more since they are moving into their new home next week; thankfully, it’s only around the corner from me, Jude leaves to get a ride on his bike before coming back to help Lexi close up, and then, it’s just me and Cruz.
    We finish our coffee in silence. I love that about Cruz. He never pushes. Well, he rarely pushes. He looks at me and I can tell he wants to say something.
    “What?”
    Shaking his head, he chuckles, “Are you going to call her?”
    I flop back in my chair and drum my fingers on the table as I think. The thought of calling her makes my palms sweat, yet I get dizzy with my rage at the same time. I’m in a quandary.
    “I don’t know. I know what you said. I hear you. I think the same thing sometimes, but then I think that she deliberately gave me the wrong name and I get pissed.”
    He just looks at me. He sighs and speaks. “She did, but maybe that is her name. Just not her first name. You know my name is Robert Cruz, yet I’m Cruz.” He stands up and pins me with his crystal gaze. “I’m just thinking you need to talk before you condemn her completely. After all, she didn’t know you were Dade Rodrigue of the famous rock band, Bayou Stix either, now did she?!” His brow arches with his question.
    Shit! Why does he have to point out and say out loud what I’ve been thinking in my head this whole time?! I mean, fuck, it’s so much easier to stay mad at her when I think she just blatantly lied to me. But didn’t I do the same thing in a way?! I told her my name, but I never volunteered my last name or my full occupation either. Dammit, Cruz! Fuck you for being right! Ugh.
    He’s watched my face and he smiles slightly as he starts to walk away. “You and Clove are both open books sometimes. You just keep the cover closed a lot more. Call her.”
    I nod as he walks out. As he clears the door, I see a pretty brunette stop and stare at him with a look of recognition on her face. She sees me watching her and smiles slightly as her cheeks flush. I smile back as I call out a “Later” to Erik. He salutes and holds his fingers to his face in the universal signal for “Call”. Damn my meddling friends.
     
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Chapter Six
    Melonie

    I ’ve just finished up with my last patient of the day and take off my white lab coat as I walk back to my office. Dropping my coat onto the chair in front of my desk, I fall into my chair and lay my head back. It’s been a long day. Hell, it’s been a long few days.
    I had forgotten about him. Ok, that’s a lie, but I had convinced myself to forget about him. What was the point?! We’d had an amazing time on St. John and then he just up and disappeared. I was supposed to meet him for dinner. No message, no call… nothing. I thought he’d just left. How was I supposed to know he didn’t just decide he was done with me?!
    It wasn’t all him. Mel. You played a part in this shit, too. You never told him your real name. You never asked him what he did.
    He’s a fucking rock star! A rock star! He’s famous. I acted like a loose groupie on an island with him. It doesn’t matter that I didn’t know who he was, hell that makes it worse.
    Face it, Mel. That was a fluke. An island affair that was over with as soon as his plane kissed the sky.
    But why can’t I stop thinking about him? Dammit!
    Because he’s the most gorgeous man you’ve ever seen, Melonie and out of an island full of women, he chose to spend time with ME!
    I never