A Brush With Love by Grace Roberts

Author:Grace Roberts
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Kyla placed the empty crystal goblet on the table and pondered reaching for the bottle of sparkling white wine for a refill. It wasn’t that she didn’t like spending time with her family, when they weren’t criticizing her career choice or the fact she lived in New York and didn’t come home often enough. But as if watching her parents acting all lovey-dovey and acting like teenagers in love wasn’t enough to test her frazzled nerves, witnessing the change in her brother, who had turned into a lovesick puppy and couldn’t seem to be able to be more than two feet away from his girlfriend without looking like a lost soul, had given her heart the last blow.

The owner of Sorrento, the Italian restaurant where Giorgia worked, had moved some of the tables to create a makeshift dance floor, so now her parents were dancing, cheek to cheek, to a love song, together with other couples. Conor, who’d never really liked dancing, had let Giorgia pull him off his chair, and was now swaying to the slow rhythm too. Kyla was the only one still sitting. Even the little kids from another party, two tables over, were dancing. She’d never felt more of a wallflower than right now.

She let out a sigh. She missed Caleb. It was unbelievable that after just one day, she missed him so much already. The strength of her feelings for him scared her and thrilled her at the same time. She wasn’t sure if being back home, coupled with meeting Caleb, had sort of brought her back to her high school years, making her feel like a teenager. It had to be that. She had no other explanation for the weird fluttering in her belly when she saw him, or the way she all but melted like a marshmallow on a campfire, when their lips met. Or for the feeling of loss that gripped her heart when she wasn’t with him. No grown-up woman should feel this way outside of a movie or a book—it made no sense.

Her phone vibrated inside her purse, on the table, and she reached for it, her heart pounding when she thought it might be Caleb. They’d exchanged numbers the night of the movie in the park, and even though they hadn’t messaged or called each other yet, she hoped maybe he missed her like she missed him and wanted to chat. Maybe he was going to invite her to his place and… Her mood plummeted when her boss’s name flashed on the screen.

“Any news?” was his greeting when she picked up. Her boss liked getting straight to the point, but she wouldn’t have minded a standard “How are you?” before he got down to business. She rolled her eyes, glad he couldn’t see her, and braced herself for the conversation she knew she wasn’t going to enjoy.

“No, Rodney. Like I told you yesterday, he’s not interested in showing his paintings to the public.”

His harrumph on the other end of the line told her what he thought of that.

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