5 Twisted Vine by Toby Neal

Author:Toby Neal [Neal, Toby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Toby Neal
Published: 2013-07-16T04:00:00+00:00

Sophie managed to ignore the flatness that Alika’s absence had brought to sparring at Fight Club later that evening. She and Marcella finished their bout, bumping fists in padded gloves. She’d trounced her friend fairly well, as usual. “Want to get something to eat?” she asked.

“Let me check something first,” Marcella said, swiping escaped strands of chocolate-brown hair out of her eyes with her forearm. Sophie felt the simmering irritation she’d been battling all afternoon rise to the fore. She poked Marcella’s shoulder, not lightly.

“Checking with the boyfriend?”

Marcella looked up, narrowed her eyes. “Hey. We already sort of had plans.”

“Whatever.” Sophie turned away, ripped her gloves off, and stuffed them in her bag. “Let me know when my friend Marcella gets back.”

“Geez,” Marcella said. “Touchy, aren’t we? Okay, I’ll cancel.” She worked her phone with her thumbs. “There. You happy?”

Sophie turned back. “I don’t need your pity date. Seriously. Go bang your boyfriend already.”

Marcella poked Sophie’s shoulder back hard. “That was bitchy. What’s gotten into you?”

Sophie picked up her bag and walked away. She could hear Marcella following, and she blinked tears out of her eyes. She was jealous, and it hurt to know it. She kept walking across the parking lot, Marcella following. She heard the other woman’s phone ring and a one-sided conversation. She was too intent on getting to her car, getting inside, and escaping to listen to it.

Sophie beeped the Lexus open, and Marcella jumped in, throwing her gym bag into the well between their bucket seats. “God, you’re so high maintenance.”

Sophie set her jaw, turned the key. “You aren’t going to get out of my car, are you?”

“No. I know I’ve been blowing you off since Marcus and I went public, and I feel bad about it. Let’s go out and have girl time with pool cues and beer. I’ll give Lei a call, see if she can join us.”

Sophie glanced over at Marcella’s dimpled white grin and felt a tug of gratitude—she’d canceled plans with her man to spend time with a friend.

“Since you insist,” Sophie said. She wasn’t about to show how much it meant to her.

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