Smile

12 Chapter

Dear readers, Happy Valentines's Day and enjoy your day, ClaudiaCleland

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On his way to work, Robert's thoughts are filled with her. Robert admires Rory's creativity especially since Finn seems to be a bit jealous of his mysterious woman. He wonders how Finn will react when he finds out who this mysterious girl is. Fortunately, Finn never thought of her more than a friend, but even if Robert is a friend of Logan and Finn, Finn's alliance is probably on Logan's side. Robert hopes that his Yalies will accept his growing affection for Rory.

Walking to the entrance of his club, Scott smiles and says, "Good morning, Robert."

"Good morning, Scott."

Robert waits before he opens the metallic door of his club "Ready for...," inquiring looking at his employee.

"Can I help you, boss?" Scott smirks, knowing that Robert is dying to know his next clue for the hunt.

Chuckling Robert replies, "I'm clueless at what I could possibly want."

"Same here," Scott grins, "But perhaps the pretty blue-eyed brunette inside can be of assistance?"

The smile on Robert's face grows from a teasing one to pure happiness. He loves how she makes him feel. It has been a long time since he felt as light-hearted as he has this week.

Walking quickly into the building, he searches for her. After crossing the foyer, he's sure he will find her in the library. It's a typical club room with a dance floor and bar, but this room has huge bookshelves filled with different genres of books on one of the red brick walls, along with comfortable leather couches, old chandeliers and a collection of pictures of different places in Great Britain. It is his favorite room because it is providing a more relaxing atmosphere compared to the other room.

He spots her sitting on one of the leather bar stools at the bar, sipping a coffee, he sneaks up on her, embracing her lovingly from behind and rests his arms on her stomach. He softly gives her a kiss on her cheek and whispers, "Hello, beautiful."

At first, she tenses, but once she hears and smells his presence, she relaxes and replies, "Hello handsome."

He turns her bar stool around without losing physical contact.

"Have you missed me, Sweetheart?" He smiles tenderly.

Seeing her smile, he knows he's ready to become involved in this relationship. Looking at her gorgeous smile makes him realize that she may be the person to help him heal his broken heart.

"Sounds like someone thinks he's annoyingly irresistible," she teases him.

She pulls him closer, wrapping her hands around his neck, playing with his lightly curled hair.

"You just know what to say to a guy," he smirks.

"Absolutely, one of my many charms," she grins.

"Well, I can think of others too," he whispers hoarsely, his eyes darken with lust before his forehead meets hers.

They gaze into each other eyes as their breaths melt into each other.

He brings his head slowly closer and closer until their lips are only centimeters apart.

"I find your lips wildly kissable," he huskily whispers to her as his thumb starts encircling the contour of her lips.

She stares into his glittering greens eyes; which now are appear emerald green, cloudy with his longing in for her.

Suddenly trivia information enters her mind and she remembers that green eyes are the only ones that can change their color. Green eyes are especially rare, and she loves that his eyes are green so different from the brown-eyed boys she uses to date.

"Care to share, Rory?" He teases, knowing that she is thinking about something.

Smiling coyly at him she hesitantly, answers, "I like how your eyes sparkle like the morning sun, and how I can read your emotions in them."

Robert loves her poetic description of his eyes. No one ever spoke to him in sense a gentle and loving way as she just did.

Instead of answering he lets his body responds. He holds her face gently in his hands and traces her lip line with his tongue.

As his tongue lovingly grazes her lips, she parts them slightly and she lets his tongue enter to dance around with hers.

He brings one of his hands to the back of her head to deepen the passionate kiss.

Robert realizes that when he kisses her it feels like he is home, a place where he wants to be.

Breathless their lips part, but their foreheads remain together, wanting to be in close contact with each other.

She places a tender kiss on his neck and reaches into her Birkin Bag, tossing an envelope on the wooden bar.

"Enjoy your next clue, Robert. Finn will probably want to join you again and he could make the task easier," she says before they kiss goodbye.

He opens the envelope excited. Robert now realizes that Rory has maneuvered herself into his heart and that she is not like anyone else that he was involved with.

Smiling he reads, "Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. The third clue needs some digging in your past memories to create a new one. Throwback time..."

As a photographer, he's a fan of Throwback Thursday and the clue will probably make Finn very happy. Rory always manages to bring a smile to his face. He's thankful that she is such a caring person always thinking of others.