By Allie X by Anna Samuels

Author:Anna Samuels [Anna Samuels]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B07192KMPS
Goodreads: 35033454
Published: 2017-04-30T03:00:00+00:00

Allie and I shared dinner and then I showed her around my small, humble home. After taking her to each room, we ended up back in the lounge.

‘I like it,’ she commented.

‘Me too…bit it doesn’t have the same feel as Hope.’

‘No…it sure doesn’t,’ she commented. ‘Not that there’s anything wrong with here, I might add, I’m just so fond of my home village these days,’ she smiled.

‘Me too!’ I exclaimed. ‘It’s so beautiful.’

‘If only I could find a nice home there to buy…’

‘Yes…it must be frustrating,’ I commented.

‘It is…I have everything sorted with the gallery now so it would be the icing on the cake.’

I nodded. ‘Yeah…I keep thinking, if only I had met the right woman by now, all this would be different.’

‘Yeah,’ she sighed. ‘Two wages and two people putting into a mortgage would make a hell of a difference,’ she murmured.

‘Damn right. I could get a huge four-bedroom house if someone could match what I have put away! I could have such a lovely home if only I had a partner…and a future too…’

She nodded, her eyes on me. ‘Have you ever considered doing it in a different way?’ she asked.

‘What do you mean?’

‘I mean like…well, going in with a friend or something,’ she said slowly.

I looked at her quizzically. Surely she didn’t mean…’What?’

‘Oh, I was just thinking out loud I suppose…’ she said, looking away, a tint of rose tinging her cheeks once more.

‘What were you thinking?’ I asked, pushing her to answer.

‘I was just thinking silly thoughts...I mean it occurs to me…you have the means and money to get a house and so do I…stranger things have happened…’

‘Allie!’ I exclaimed.

‘What?’

‘I’ve known you for two days! Not even that!’

‘I know…’ she murmured.

‘It would be crazy!’ I said passionately.

‘Yeah…you’re right.’

‘Crazy but brilliant!’ I exclaimed.

Her eyes immediately brightened at my words. ‘Hey?’

‘Well, it’s absolutely bonkers…we’d be mad to do it…but…’

‘But what?’

‘It’s downright tempting!’ I laughed.

‘It is right?’

‘In Hope?’ I questioned.

She nodded. ‘It’d have to be…’

‘I’d love it there…oh my goodness, to live there…it would be...well, it would be incredible…’

‘I know. It is,’ she told me.

‘But my work…it’d be a forty-five minute drive!’

‘Couldn’t you move roles? There must be estate agents near Hope too! So many people buy in our area.’

I nodded, thinking. ‘I’d never really considered moving areas.’

‘No…it’s all very impulsive and I don’t know if this is just a completely pie in the sky idea.’

‘It probably is,’ I said slowly, ‘but it is an idea…’

‘Yeah…’

‘I’ve never come up with any better ones,’ I told her.

‘Me neither!’

‘And I am thirty now…something needs to change if I’m ever going to sort my life out and get anywhere.’

‘I don’t know,’ she said then, ‘it’s probably crazy and we should definitely spend some more time being friends for now.’

I nodded. ‘Absolutely.’

‘I mean, it’s like you said…it’s been two days!’

‘Yeah…we click though, don’t we?’ I smiled. ‘Like some friendships just work from the word go?’

She smiled back at me. ‘Actually yes…I know exactly what you mean. With you it’s just easy…no effort, and I mean that in the nicest possible way.

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