Another Shot At Love by Roy Niecey

Author:Roy, Niecey [Roy, Niecey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Another Shot At Love
Publisher: River Mist Media
Published: 2013-10-20T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“Y-y-you c-can’t f-f-fa-a-all for th-that g-guy!” Britney wailed, tears running down her pale cheeks. She wiped at her eyes and now there were streaks of mascara and eyeliner all over her face and across her temples to her hairline. Tricia jumped up to console her, but after getting up must have realized she didn’t know what to say, so settled for a few light pats on Britney’s back.

“What the hell,” Roxanna breathed. I shoved Roxanna’s chair out of the way and went to crouch in front of Britney trembling in her chair. I handed her a box of tissues off the corner of Britney’s desk.

“Britney, what’s wrong?” I asked. Britney took a handful of tissues and blew loudly.

“M-men are p-pigs!”

I stood to look over the partitions at the other rows of cubicles. Sure enough, the crying had caught the attention of the teams on either side of us. I smiled and waved at anyone looking and mouthed, “Everything’s fine.”

Britney’s wailing slowly subsided until she was only a mess of sniffles and watered-down makeup. Roxanna coaxed the story out of her and we listened while she described her first love, a cute medical equipment salesman she’d given three years to before he’d cheated on her. Not once, she’d found out, but twice, with one of his ex-girlfriends. It sounded like a nightmarish replay of my relationship with Brent, so much so that I felt the anger I’d felt at Brent bubble up again.

Britney’s boyfriend had denied it all, but after one of her friends snapped a couple of pictures of him making out with a redhead in a Jacuzzi at a party, he hadn’t been able to lie any longer. That was the third time she’d caught him cheating. The first two she’d never been able to prove, but she knew the stories were true. Now she had proof and didn’t doubt for one second he’d been lying to her, for who knows how long.

“H-he’s such a b-bastard!” Britney sniffled and dropped her face into the wadded up tissues in her hands. “I was so stupid!”

“Yes, you were,” Roxanna said with a nod. Tricia and I both shot her a look of disapproval, but Roxanna ignored us. She leaned down and grasped Britney by the shoulders. “But it’s not your fault. No one can blame you for trusting your boyfriend, or believing he would change. If he had any brains in that dumb head of his, he wouldn’t have done this to you at all.”

“That’s right,” I assured her. “It’s not your fault.”

“Listen honey, I’m going to be real honest with you, okay?” Roxanna asked.

Britney hiccupped and stared at her with red-rimmed eyes full of worry over the word “honest” coming from Roxanna. “O-okay,” she answered hesitantly.

It wasn’t like Britney had a choice in the matter; whatever Roxanna wanted to say, she would say it. Britney blinked, new to this version of Roxanna whose brutal honesty was sometimes on a thin-line of tactless. It was something Roxanna and Lexie had in common, though neither woman did it to be rude.

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