Break-Up Club by Lorelei Mathias

Author:Lorelei Mathias
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008202330
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

16. Like Buses

Some days later, Holly was sat in her office attempting to salvage something from a hedonistic weekend’s worth of Prowl footage. Meanwhile, in Camera Two of her mind, she was replaying in full the List of Lawrence’s Faults the club had made her draw up at the last meeting. ‘Anytime you’re missing him or get tempted to engage with his spam,’ they’d said, ‘you just need to visualise the list and remind yourself what a numpty he was.’ Just as she was mentally scrolling through the items, from ‘unwashed hair’ to ‘financial fucktard,’ there was a knock at the door.

‘Hey,’ Luke said as she opened the door. ‘Sorry to disturb. Jeremy said that there was a scene I could take a look at. Apparently the Director’s still not happy with that stupid flaring scene. So I was going to ask if I could just see where I was going wrong, if you’ve got time to play it back for me?’ As he stretched into a yawn, she couldn’t help spotting a flash of chiselled tummy and thinking, be still my loins.

‘Of course. Let me just dig it out,’ she said, gesturing to the chair next to her.

As she tapped away at various buttons and got the scene ready, she could feel his leg making contact with hers under the table.

‘Here we go,’ she said, pressing play and adjusting the speakers.

Just being in this small amount of contact was sending tiny shockwaves to all the skin around the neighbouring area. The rest of her body felt so mundane in comparison to that small highly charged area. Could he tell? Could he see the protons and neutrons bouncing about between them? What about moving a little closer, she wondered, so even more surface area could benefit? She stared at Luke’s on-screen face, pretending that this was all in a work-related capacity. Then, she casually moved her chair a little closer to the desk. Bingo. Legs entirely in contact now, and a section of arm as well, to boot. Her heart beginning minor palpitations, she felt his leg flinch a little. She could sense his face turning to look at her, but she didn’t dare move her eyes off the screen. Was he feeling it too? This was either the hottest thing that had happened to her in ages, or this whole infatuation was entirely in her head and she was carrying on like a cheap thrill-seeking perv. Both were entirely plausible at this point, this being the most bodily contact she’d had in about a century.

Maybe there’d be a clue in his expression? Fuck it, she thought, daring to turn her head and looking straight into his enormous blue eyes. Unless she was imagining it, she and Luke were inches away from unabashed dry-humping.

‘All right, now I have to confess something, Holly,’ he said, turning his face away.

‘What?’ she asked, barely able to breathe.

‘What I did back there, that was me acting.’

‘I’m sorry?’

He looked at his shoes. ‘I don’t really need to see the scene.

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