A Stolen Heart by Beverley Hollowed

Author:Beverley Hollowed [Hollowed, Beverley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Titan InKorp
Published: 2013-07-10T04:00:00+00:00

He walked around for a couple of hours, heading nowhere particular just trying to clear his head. Then he found himself at O’Grady’s. He slumped onto a bar stool and ordered a large whiskey.

“Zach,” Joanna called as she walked out of the back office. “I thought this was your night off?”

“It is,” he replied without looking up from his drink. “I am here for purely social reasons. I am going to get drunk.”

“What’s happened?” she asked sitting on the bar stool beside him. “I thought you were meeting Emma tonight?”

“So did I,” he replied taking a large gulp from his drink. “But when I got there she wasn’t alone.”

“Who was she with?” Joanna asked hopefully. She knew that Zach had asked Emma to marry him and he was meeting her that night to get her answer. Joanna had hope Emma would turn him down. She really liked him. She thought he liked her too. That was until Emma turned up and ruined everything.

“Look I don’t really feel like talking about it,” he said getting up from the bar. “I think I will call it a night after all.”

“Do you want some company?” Joanna asked hoping he would say yes.

“Thanks Jo,” he replied. “But I wouldn’t be good company. Maybe some other time.”

“It’s a date,” she said flashing him her cheesiest smile. She couldn’t help but feel disappointed. But she wasn’t going to give up hope yet.

Zach went back to his apartment and flopped on his couch. He wished Emma would have at least phoned him. He reached for his phone.

He keyed in her mobile number but couldn’t press the send button. He threw the phone back down on the sofa. He got up and got a bottle of whiskey out of the press and poured himself a large glass. He knocked it back in one go and poured himself a second glass and took it to the sofa.

When he finished the drink, he just sat there in the dark until finally he fell asleep.

Emma however didn’t sleep. Every time she closed her eye she could picture Zach’s face in her mind. She could only remember the way he looked at her as she walked away with Jonathan.

She tossed and turned but just couldn’t drift off to sleep.

Suddenly there was a very light knock on her bedroom door.

“Come in,” she said turning to the door to see who it was. Jonathan quietly crept into her room. He was sleeping in Jack’s room down the hall.

Emma said that she felt a little uncomfortable sleeping with Jonathan in her mother’s house as they weren’t married yet. Jonathan had, at first, thought she was kidding but was surprised when he realized she wasn’t.

But the truth was she didn’t want to share a bed with Jonathan because she felt if she was going to call off the wedding it would be unfair to lead him on and sleep with him.

“Can I come in?” he said standing at the door way. “I promise I will be a gentleman.

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