Cherry Pie by Virginia Sexton

Author:Virginia Sexton [Sexton, Virginia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sugar & Vice
Published: 2017-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

I spend the weekend trying to get her out of my mind. I don’t know what I expected, I guess at least a one-night stand? I don’t understand why she changed her mind at the last minute, and I really don’t understand why I care so much.

Brian shakes his head at me as I head for the heavy weights. “You’re back again?”

It’s my third morning in a row doing lifts and Brian, my personal trainer, starts pressuring me — not to do more of a workout, but to lay off the weights and tell him what’s going on. “I’ve known you for a few years, Knox, and you don’t normally push yourself this hard over a weekend, let alone three mornings in a row. You need a rest day.” He’s supposed to be spotting me, but he won’t shut up. “Is everything all right?”

“It’s fine.” I’m bench pressing almost twice my body weight, and it feels good to struggle against something so physical, something straight forward and simple. I drop the weights as delicately as I can manage and wipe the sweat dripping from my forehead. “Do you believe in soul mates?”

Brian gives me a worried look. “As in true love forever?”

“Well, I guess.” It sounds pretty stupid put like that. I’m not used to feeling stupid. “I mean someone that you know when you meet them, that they are something special.”

He smiles, and I end up turning away. He’s looking smug and I can’t bear it.

“Is that what this is? Girl trouble?” But before I blow up at him, he gets serious. “I think it can happen. But I don’t think you need to label things. What’s it matter? How’s it help?”

“I don’t know what to do,” I admit. It’s hard to get those words out. I’m usually in charge, charging ahead, working out the battle plan before most people have even worked out there’s a battle to be won. But it’s the truth; I can’t stop thinking about Crystal. She hasn’t phoned me or tried to get in touch with me at all. I even drove to her place with this stupid plan of knocking at her door and telling her I was just there to pick up the dress. Stupidest idea ever. Luckily, she wasn’t home.

“Who is she?”

“Her name’s Crystal. She’s pretty and funny and sexy and…” My words trail off. “I only spent a single evening with her, but everything about her was adorable. She’s different from anyone I’ve ever met. She’s authentic, 100 percent her, do you know what I mean?”

“Sounds like something special,” he says. “Ten squats.” No rest for the wicked.

“She really is.” My sentences get shorter as he works me out harder. “You’d think I’d get some sympathy.”

“For meeting the perfect woman? I don’t think so.”

I just shake my head.

He counts off the tenth squat. “Now, tell me. What’s the problem?”

“She’s doesn’t feel the same.”

Brian gapes at me. “Well, that must be a shock to your system.” He half laughs and then gets serious.

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