Broken by Megan Hart

Author:Megan Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin

I hated Sassy. I wanted to rip out every single blue hair from her head. I hid it by pretending great interest in my sandwich.

“So, did she make you eggs?” I took a bite of sawdust and washed it down with bile.

“No. I woke up before she did and left.” Joe wasn’t eating yet. He leaned back against the bench and stretched out his legs.

I try not to be smug and satisfied with that answer. “So…are you going to see her again?”

He looked at me. “I see her almost every week.”

I’d like to pretend this fact doesn’t make my gut twist. “So it’s going well for you.”

“She comes into work, that’s all, Sadie. I haven’t gone out with her again.”

“Why not?” I put down my sandwich and concentrated on the soda, sucking so hard the straw rattled the ice in the cup.

“Because she’s not my type, and she’s not looking for a boyfriend, anyway.”

I knew this; he said as much in the telling of the tale. Still, he’d spent the night with Sarah, which he never did. And I couldn’t get the vision of her holding him out of my head.

“I like her,” Joe said, after a few moments.

“There’s nothing wrong with liking her,” I answered crisply. “She sounds very likeable.”

From the corner of my eye I see him looking at me intently. “What do you see, Sadie? When you look at me? Am I just a suit and a car and a job?”

I watched the second hand on my watch spin around the dial twice before I answered. “No.”

“Look at me, Sadie.”

I did.

“What do you see?”

I gave my head a small, purposeful shake and looked away. “I should be getting back. I have an appointment in half an hour.”

Joe has a very nice laugh, a deep and hearty chuckle that’s like listening to the ocean. The noise he made just then aspired to become laughter but didn’t quite make it.

“See you next month.”

I nodded, still not looking at him. He didn’t get off the bench. His gaze burdened me.

I am always watching Joe walk away from me. Today I was the first to my feet and turning my back. I left him sitting on the bench, and though I wanted to, I didn’t turn back to look at him when I went.

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