Can’t Escape Love by Alyssa Cole

Author:Alyssa Cole
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2019-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Reggie could see in retrospect that this entire scheme had been ill-advised, but the following Friday evening as she waited for Gus to arrive, the enormity of it really hit her. Why hadn’t she just taken sleeping pills to cure her insomnia, like a normal person? She’d told herself she needed Gus to sleep because her work was slipping, but now instead of insomnia brain she had sex-on-the-brain, which was almost as distracting.

Still, she was mostly back on her game with work, in part because Gus had come over every night after his day job for their strictly timed sessions of work breaks and “play.” Meeting her goals without procrastination wasn’t so hard when she knew she could be kissing Gus as a reward—it beat using a pomodoro timer.

And tonight? Tonight maybe they would do more than kiss. It was Friday; she was ahead of her goals for the week and he didn’t have to go into work the next morning. Maybe he’d spend the night again, instead of going home—in her room instead of the spare apartment.

She balanced the tray with the last of the things they’d need to grill on her lap, hoping no marinade or sauces spilled and stained her cute green dress, and slowly rolled out onto her back deck, where she liked to work when the weather was nice enough. It was a warm evening, but not humid; perfect for grilling, and more so for just getting out of the house.

That was the other thing about Gus—spending time with him, supposedly in the interest of being able to do more work—had made her realize just how much work she was doing. Most of her daily grind took place at home, where her office was tailored to her needs and she didn’t have to worry about accessibility, or spilling iced coffee on her laptop because straws were easier to ban than the plastics that actually destroyed the environment. She’d spent all her free time for the past few years building the site of her dreams, and now that she’d quit her day job . . . she spent even more time at it—wooing advertisers, writing content, and managing all the nuts and bolts that kept GirlsWithGlasses going.

She’d forgotten what taking breaks felt like, and not just the kissing kind. Three times that week, she and Gus had gone for a long walk around her neighborhood while brainstorming—something she usually did in short bursts when using her walker with her physical therapist, not just for fun. With Gus, they’d just explored. She’d discovered several cute new shops that had sprung up while she had her nose to her laptop screen, including the one she’d returned to on her own that morning to buy her dress. They’d stopped at a playground a few blocks away, where Gus had shown her his ability to hang upside down on the monkey bars to the delight of the children and the consternation of their parents. They’d tucked their phones into

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