Bad Engagement by Elise Faber

Author:Elise Faber [Faber, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946140722
Publisher: Elise Faber

Fourteen

Kate

She lay in bed that night, hours after Jaime had left, hours after she’d eaten a delicious pumpkin muffin and he’d had an apple turnover.

Hours after she’d made a promise to herself to stop thinking about the inevitable end of her and Jaime and how she knew it would be more devastating to lose him than it had been to lose any other relationship. Hours after she’d decided to focus on enjoying the time they had left.

“Fuck,” she muttered, punching her pillow and tossing and turning in her bed.

Her very expensive, supposedly the world’s most comfortable pillow. Her pricey mattress. Her ridiculously overpriced linens that were cozy and fluffy and normally had her sleeping like a baby.

Well, like a baby that wasn’t little Lacy, up at all hours.

But instead she was awake, the fucking broken record of fear and end cycling through her mind.

Jaime had gone into his clinic about an hour after they’d eaten together, after cleaning the dishes and mugs, after putting his muscles to excellent work by digging a series of holes for the new plants she’d planned on purchasing later that day.

As a result, she continued to think of him the entire time she worked in the garden.

Hell, he never left her mind.

Not on the drive to the nursery, nor as she picked out plants and she wondered what type would be his favorite and if she got that extra flat of marigolds if she would be able to convince him to dig a few more holes.

She thought of him as she loosened the flowers from their pots, as she broke apart their roots and sprinkled in some plant food before tucking them carefully into the soil. She thought of his capable hands as she used her own hand to pat the dirt down, remembering how his had felt as they touched and stroked and caressed.

But when he’d called that night, she hadn’t picked up.

She’d let it go to voicemail then had listened to the short and sweet message he’d left, telling her he was thinking of her, that he missed her and for her to call him back anytime, and if not that he’d try her the next day.

But she hadn’t returned the call.

Hadn’t texted.

Instead, she spent the day in worry.

No matter all the grandiose promises she’d made to herself and him.

“Ugh!” she groaned, hating this, hating she was so insecure when it came to her love life. She was a confident and capable woman in every other part of her life. Self-assured at work. Self-reliant when it came to her house, her car, her life. She could change a tire, fix a leaking pipe. She could pay her own bills. Hell, she had learned how to patch her own roof last year when a big storm had ripped off a few shingles and she couldn’t get a roofing contractor out for a few days and hadn’t wanted her dad on the roof.

She could troubleshoot her WiFi and set up her cable box.

So, why couldn’t

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