Accidental Valentine by Ellie Danes

Author:Ellie Danes [Danes, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Emma

“Did Stefan ever tell you what I do for a living?” I’d finished off one of his shrimp, and I decided to kind of toy with Stefan a bit and also try and get through the dinner itself as well as I could.

“He didn’t, actually,” Mark replied.

“We all kind of figured he either met you modeling or at the bar. Somewhere like that,” Jessica said.

“Well, actually, I work at a flower shop.” I’d figured that it would be easiest to stick as close to the truth as often as possible.

“The story is so boring,” Stefan interjected.

I grinned. “He’s only saying that because he comes across a bit like a jerk in it,” I told the others.

“Surprise, surprise,” Monique said, giving Stefan a wicked look.

“Tell us! Stefan, don’t you interrupt her again,” Jessica insisted.

“So, I had this late delivery to make—our driver had already gone out, and my boss and I noticed that we’d missed something,” I started. I told them more or less the actual story of how Stefan and I had met, leaving out that it had only been the day before, and my embarrassment at finding out the flowers were from his mother. “He asked me out and against my better judgment, I decided to give him a shot.” I grinned at Stefan.

“And somehow, I managed to charm her enough to convince her to keep going out with me,” he added.

“That sounds like him,” Mark agreed. “I’ve always wondered why he hasn’t had more success with women, long-term; he’s objectively a good-looking guy and in spite of being a cocky asshole, he’ll give you the shirt off his back.”

“He’s only a cocky asshole because he knows he’s hot,” Helena theorized. “If I hadn’t ended up with Jules, I might have taken a spin. No offense to you, Emma.”

“I can’t really take offense at that,” I pointed out. “How did you and Jules end up together?” And that, thankfully, started the discussion around the table of the different couples’ relationships. Apparently, Julian and Helena had gotten married only about half a year before, and Mark and Monique had gotten engaged on New Year’s Eve. Jessica and Nate had been together for two years, and they weren’t getting married anytime soon, but they’d moved in together in the past year. We finished the first course and then the pasta arrived, and I was grateful that it wasn’t a huge portion—just enough to really enjoy it without being a full meal on its own.

The group managed to empty the bottle of champagne and the guys ordered another one, since it would go equally well with all of the things people had chosen. I had to admit that I agreed with Stefan that his friends and their girlfriends were actually pretty decent; they all seemed to have good senses of humor, and having dinner with them wasn’t all that different from hanging out with my friends or my coworkers.

“So, you have to tell us, what’s Stefan like to date?” Jessica was obviously beginning to get a bit tipsy, and so was I.

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