All In by O'Donahue Fallon

Author:O'Donahue, Fallon [O'Donahue, Fallon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-08-21T07:00:00+00:00

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The red vinyl of the booth squeaked as Cass sank into the seat, and the waitress took their orders quickly. They may have joked about margaritas, since they had to return to work, but she was sure Phil would definitely fire her if she showed up three margaritas shy of a tequila bottle. Still the shakes at this burger joint were no joke. There was a chocolate mocha banana shake on its way accompanied by a turkey burger. She knew it was a sin against the term “burger,” but she had to trim a couple of calories off her meal somewhere.

“You ready to dish?” Lo asked, sipping her lemon water.

“No,” Cass answered honestly.

“Well, you’re gonna.”

Cass sighed.

“What do you want to know?” Cass asked. She really didn’t know where to start.

“Let’s start simple. You had dinner?”

“Yes.”

“And it went well?”

“Yes.”

“And you didn’t kill each other?”

“Nope.”

“Okay, I can tell this is going to be fun…” Lo trailed off, letting out her own sigh.

Cass looked at her friend, realizing she was being hard on her, and guilt smacked her in the face. Lo never held back from Cass. She put her heart out there, telling her anything and everything about her love life. Sometimes it seemed like she was sharing too much, but she trusted Cass implicitly, and Cass realized she was a terrible friend in that she never returned that trust. Lo had never once, in all the years she’d known her, betrayed her. She knew how Cass felt about Maddox, and yet she never told anyone about it. She hid it as well as Cass—probably better. She’d rarely opened up to Lo, one of the biggest admissions coming just two nights before, and now she had left Lo hanging. It wasn’t fair to her.

“I’m sorry. I’m not good at this. You know I want to tell you-“ Cass admitted.

“Do you? I mean, it doesn’t seem-“

“Lo! I want to tell you. It’s just hard. It’s so, um, so…new…so surreal.”

Lo remained silent, allowing Cass to work up her courage.

“Dinner was amazing. Well the end was amazing. Maddox was, oh, I don’t even know. He took me to Marceux.”

“Shit. Really? How’d he even get a table? That place has a mile long waiting list!”

Cass laughed. “You know, I was so nervous, I didn’t even ask!”

“Well, go on,” Lo prompted.

Cass closed her eyes. “It was gorgeous. When they say it’s a private dining experience, they mean it. I swear, Lo, I thought he was going to end it right there.”

“But he didn’t, did he?”

“No, no. Quite the opposite,” Cass took a long draw on her much needed shake, the sweetness soothing her nerves.

“He finally admitted he’s madly in love with you?” Lo smirked.

“Oh, good grief, no!” Cass coughed, almost choking on her banana mocha goodness. “That would’ve been the perfect way to completely freak me out! Too much, too fast. It’s already too much, and I don’t even know what it is!”

“Too much? What happened after dinner?”

“Well, there might have been a lot of wine and bubbles…”

“Girl! You had drunk sex!” Lo whisper exclaimed.

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