Avoiding Extras by K.A. Linde

Author:K.A. Linde [Linde, K.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: K.A. Linde Inc.
Published: 2020-05-06T18:30:00+00:00

11

Past

“Are you sure this is the place?” Adam asked, looking up at the black building with a large overhang and patio.

Under warmer conditions, it would probably be full of black café tables and chairs. A large purple neon sign displayed the name, Sulgaana Hookah Lounge, in big swirly letters. Otherwise, the only decoration outside came from fake candles lighting the way to the entrance.

“Yeah. It’s new,” she said, pushing him forward. “A friend told me about it. Used to be a club or something, but it’s been renovated.”

He poked her playfully in the side. “It doesn’t have a line out the door. Are you sure you’re actually interested?”

“I’m not stuffy,” she said, dodging his attempts to tickle her.

He stopped and raised his eyebrows. “Really?”

“Hey, you! Shut the fuck up!” She wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled him close to her.

He smiled and slung his arm across her shoulders.

“There she is!” he said, kissing her temple as he reached out for the door.

She jabbed him the ribs twice as he swung the door open. “You’re gonna get it tonight,” she said.

“You got me,” he said, doubling over like she had actually wounded him.

Strutting forward purposefully into the hookah bar, she said, “And, stay down.”

She could feel his eyes on her ass as she walked a catwalk to the host’s station.

She felt better and more confident tonight. Last night had shaken her a little, and she had called it an early night. Well, early for her. She had even pulled out some of Alexa’s double chocolate, chocolate chip ice cream from her freezer to see if that helped. It hadn’t. She had just felt fat on top of everything else.

No, she couldn’t think about last night—not about the pool, not about the bar, not about the club, not about leaving.

She refused to think about his body soaking wet in nothing but swim shorts. Her mind wouldn’t even let her think about being at the bar with him afterward when he had bought all the right drinks and said all the right things. No way was she going to consider his charming personality, the way his hand found the small of her back when he leaned in to ask her a question, or those too smart hazel eyes that always focused on her face. If she wasn’t thinking about those things, she certainly wouldn’t go back to the feel of his body pressed tight against hers as they danced in the center of the nightclub. Nope, she wouldn’t think about any of those things.

All she would let herself think about was that she had ended it. They’d had a nice time, and then she had ended it.

Yep, that was the only important part.

Adam was out with her tonight, and John had plans until later. Frederick was hanging out boyfriendless at some gay bar in Manhattan, and she was considering going to hang out with him later in the evening. If Alexa were in town, she would have already been with her.

The woman behind the desk was dressed in a traditional Indian sari in deep purple and orange silk.

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