Faking It With My Grumpy Boss: An Age-Gap Sweet Romance by MARA BRIGHT

Author:MARA BRIGHT [BRIGHT, MARA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Lewis

I can tell she’s disappointed in me. That’s a bit hard to manage, but I do want to push her to do better if she can. And I do know she can do better. I just can’t do it for her.

As the meeting ends, I say, “don’t forget about this weekend.”

“This weekend?” she asks, as if she had just forgotten all about it.

“The wedding,” I whisper urgently.

She laughs, and I realize she said it as a joke, finding it funny. I certainly didn’t. When she can see my annoyance, she says, “yes, of course. I will see you Saturday.”

“Great.”

With the wedding coming up so fast, I’m not sure I’m really ready for it. It’s not just Megan, a lot of it’s with Elizabeth. I thought I was ready to see her again, but each day that things get a little bit closer, and I haven’t seen her since she said I wasn’t worth arguing with, as if I could be pushed away just by that, I feel anxious about going.

I don’t want to think about it, so I watch television every night as I go to bed. That does make, however, for some odd dreams.

Megan sits next to me where I sleep in bed, and she’s in a wedding dress, cream, as if there is any chance for her to be seen as anything less than pure, no matter what her past has been.

I reach over to push a piece of hair, still messy, behind her ear, but when I reach for her, I can’t touch her. My arm is far enough, and my hand isn’t going through, just never quite there.

There is canned laughter, exactly the kind I would expect from this sort of television show, and I reach again. This time, my hand goes all the way in, then comes out sticky with caramel, and the laughter starts again.

I sit bolt upright, panting hard. No one is there with me, but there is some sort of food competition on the tv, complete with the canned laughter, though I don’t see the two often coming together.

I don’t think I can lay back down and go right to sleep, so instead I walk down to the kitchen and start cooking up a grilled cheese sandwich, complete with pasta sauce and pieces of pepperoni, more of a French toast pizza really. I wonder, for a moment, what Elizabeth had for dinner. If she’s still up, planning for the wedding. Then I wonder what Megan had for dinner and if she’s still up, editing songs. I hate the thought of being alone in the world.

I never eat in bed, so I take my food into the living room and take out a book, hoping that will be enough distraction for me. I also turn on music, anything that might hide my thoughts. I know I will need to deal with them eventually, but 2:47 is hardly the time.

I realize that at this time a few days ago I was talking to Megan, and now I wonder if I could call her again, start talking to her now.

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