Total pages in book: 114
Estimated words: 108636 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 543(@200wpm)___ 435(@250wpm)___ 362(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 108636 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 543(@200wpm)___ 435(@250wpm)___ 362(@300wpm)
She smacks me. “Stop trying to make this about me.”
Goddammit, she knows me too well.
“Well…”
She smiles and leans forward in her seat, perched on the edge almost comically. When it takes me more than a beat and a half to answer, she yells. “Well, what?”
A few patrons in the diner look in our direction, and I sigh.
“Fine.”
I guess the most concise, base-level details won’t hurt.
“I kissed someone,” I say, my voice a whisper compared to hers. “At midnight. It was good.”
“Oh my God! And you’re just now telling me this? What the hell!”
If I’m being honest, it was more than good. It was, like, masturbation-worthy good.
But no way does Emory need to know those dirty details. Her overzealous reaction makes it obvious she wouldn’t shut up about it if she did, and I don’t have time to put out some kind of New York search party for a guy I kissed…once.
A guy whose face was hidden behind a rubber Walt mask.
A guy whose name I don’t even know.
“It was nothing,” I say, my voice easy breezy. “I mean, we only interacted for about ten minutes beforehand and none after. It was…weird. He said ‘Happy New Year,’ and then he left.” I shrug. “I don’t know.”
He also insinuated he wanted to eat my pussy, but that’s a minor detail, right?
“What don’t you know? I mean, come on, Greer. You’re not exactly prospecting to be on The Bachelorette. You haven’t even thought about a man in the last five years that I know of. Now, you’re kissing strangers at midnight, and it’s just no big deal? I’m sure he had a reason for walking away.”
I shrug again, and it only amps her up more.
“Greer!” she shouts, and when I don’t respond right away, she reaches across the table and smacks my arm.
“What?” I ask with annoyance in my voice. “It’s not like it’s going anywhere, you possessed nutcase. I don’t live in New York. I don’t know who he was. I don’t even know his fucking name! All I know of him is his knowledge of Walter White and Breaking Bad and that he’s not a complete moron like Albert Einstein. For all I know, he hated every moment of our interaction,” I huff out, but my brain reminds me of his sexy words and even sexier mouth in a rebuttal.
Stupid brain. I shake off those pointless thoughts. It doesn’t matter what he said or how good the kiss was. Or that he talked about putting his face between my legs. It was a one-time thing.
Plus, he was the one who walked away, not me.
Emory scrunches up her nose. “Okay, half of what you just said doesn’t even make sense, but you’re forgetting something else you know.”
“What?”
“That he’s a good kisser.”
I groan and drop my face into my hands. I don’t want to be discussing this at all. In fact, I’d rather be harpooning myself with one of those guns they use to tag sharks and shit.
She smacks my arm to get my attention. “That’s a pretty important detail, friend.”
“Sure. Whatever you say,” I agree just to make her happy and lift my eyes to hers. “But you really need to wrap your mind around the fact that there’s nothing else there, E, no matter how much your romantic heart wants there to be.”
Her only answer is a frown heard ’round the world.
And if I’m honest, I’m kind of sad too.
But I don’t have time for a man, and I don’t have the investigative skills to find one I don’t actually know. This is a job for a Sherlock, and I’m really more of a Shirley.
Fuck, that’s not even true. I’m a Laverne.
Regardless, I need to focus on my firm, the hotel, and turning things around with my new boss.
It’s going to require long hours and personality adjustments and a lot of hard work.
I don’t have time to stop and smell the roses, and I don’t have time to fall for someone random, good kisser or not. Especially not someone who walks away before I can invite them to sleep with me.
Love, it seems, will just have to come later.
Trent
Greer Hudson.
The new designer for the hotel in New Orleans, the snarky—albeit gorgeous—woman from the gym, and my waking nightmare.
She made pouty, disapproving lips at me for the entirety of the meeting with the new team, and the weight of her stare makes me want to shove it off and slam it to the ground like body builders do after snatching.
Well, probably something less violent, but just as visually significant.
The more she stared at me with those big, blue, judgmental eyes of hers, the more annoyed I became and the heavier my chest felt. My mind might as well have been a hoarder’s house for all the clutter and garbage filling every thought.
Perhaps the worst part? This is just the beginning.