Accidental Night with the Wrong Bartender

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or airports. I always felt like I was

ive years ago, it started again, and I hadn't been able to shake the feeling off. It began that mornin

r her a bit more than I

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st the only woman for me... five y

n't mean

y head. Anytime I got to an airport,

te terminal, my assistant trailing behind me with a tablet clutched to hi

ing el

s in twenty minutes,

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omething small sl

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pped ab

soft thud as something... no,

a small voice c

hat...

own, my brow

in his eyes, his small hands pressed to his kne

I had hit him when he ha

rushed forward, and he immediately went to hu

glish." He scolded which only mad

uching beside him. He patted his back, sounding

ed with a

were

Same height. Same eyes. Same dark ha

always considered them a distrac

never considered having childre

wins... I felt somethi

w why I reacte

arely

ook a step forward, and then slowly I buckled

close, his crying hitching into small, shaky br

o my own ears. It came out softer than I had intended...

ndedly nodded, his

n hesitated midway... I didn't kno

hand on his head an

topped

hat and just

eyed, studying my face as if trying

' I snapped back to my senses

your parent

a few seconds before returning their g

fore pointing at his brother. "He ran, and then I

asn't just a child speaking sloppily; he spoke

y looked

forward and whispered to m

et." The words came

, I crouched down to their level

allen earlier was about to say, but then his b

houldn't give our

t tighten

dn't k

he seemed to be older, but I wa

were...

didn't want them. I was know

d ye

looked

mforta

urge to pat his head. "You're right. You

watching them made me wis

e, that wish would be possible.

she wa

I was about to say something else whe

oice shook a little..

his lips pulled into a wide grin. "T

a figure sped past me, walked to the

t somehow, just like the twins, it felt familiar. "Yo

mart one said with a small smile, "...we were

.." The mother stood up,

d, I felt air leave

ight brown and she had bangs covering her forehead, but her eyes

eyes was gone, as though she had given up on life but still

er even mor

tion. That was why she felt s

who ignited a fire ins