Christmas at Two Love Lane by Kieran Kramer

Author:Kieran Kramer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Where did Macy go after she made that ridiculous remark to Deacon?

To a small room, of course, where big things happen. Fran would need to add it to her list: a stall in the ladies’ bathroom. What woman hasn’t cried there? Or hidden there? Or snuck makeup on there? Or seen her boyfriend’s name on the wall there—with some other girl’s—and realized that life, as she knew it, was over?

Yes, Macy went straight to the ladies’ room at the Gaillard Center, before anyone could catch her to say hello, and threw herself into the farthest stall and locked the door with shaking hands. Somehow, she managed to pull out her cell phone and dial Greer.

“Hey.” Greer sounded happy. She’d stayed at home that night to write Christmas cards. “Aren’t you at the Gaillard?”

“Yes. And I—” Macy didn’t know where to start.

“What’s wrong?” Greer’s voice filled with concern.

Macy closed her eyes. A toilet flushed nearby, and she didn’t even care. Usually, she got in and out of public bathrooms pronto because she was a priss about such things. But that night … well, let the toilets flush—all of them at the same time, even. She couldn’t have cared less at that point.

“I can’t talk long,” she said. “I’m in the ladies’ room—”

“Tell me,” Greer insisted.

“Okay.” She drew a breath. “I think I’m officially in a bad place with this matchmaking assignment. The one with Deacon.”

“I’m not surprised,” Greer said. “How so?”

“I told him not to kiss Louisa. I never tell people that. I hope he thought I meant that first dates should be very low-key, platonic, get-to-know-you sessions. But that’s not what I meant at all.”

“What did you mean?”

“That I’d be jealous if he kissed her.”

Greer laughed. “You two are a match. A gold-star match. Of course you’d be jealous.”

“We were walking together. He was holding my arm on one side, and his aunt’s on the other. And I felt it emanating from him, as bright and clear as the moon tonight. He was with the two women who completed him. His surrogate mother … and, um, me.” Her voice cracked a little.

“Don’t cry,” whispered Greer. She sounded like she wanted to cry herself.

Macy was glad her friend understood how significant the moment was. “But he’s so good at being a bachelor. Not that there’s anything wrong with that when you’re up front about it, which he is. He doesn’t like commitment. But I … I don’t want to get hurt.” She stared at the hook on the stall door.

“You know what I’ve told you about that,” said Greer. “You have to get over it.”

“I wish I could.”

“So where do you go from here? I think we should call Ella.”

“I don’t know.” Macy sighed. Confusion wasn’t a good feeling, especially when you were out in public in a gown that you hoped a special man would notice—and he was on a date with someone else you’d set him up with.

Ten seconds later, Ella was on the line, and Greer filled her in.

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