Finding Our Hearts by Grace Roberts

Author:Grace Roberts [Roberts, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-29T04:00:00+00:00

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The following day, when David walked into the office to pick up some documents, my stomach twisted. No matter how hard I tried to convince myself it was wrong, masochistic or just plain stupid, my feelings for him weren’t going to disappear overnight. It was only October—how was I going to last until the end of the school year pretending I didn’t care about him? Even so, I tried to act normal, but Susan stared at me more than once as David cheerfully greeted me and chatted with me for a few minutes about anything but work-related issues. The suspicions I’d had for the past few weeks were confirmed. She definitely liked him. From the way her eyes were fixed on me, as if she were hoping to burn a hole through my head with just the power of her glare, I was sure more than ever that all the things she’d said that first day about socializing with professors or, in David’s case, with lecturers, was only because she didn’t want me anywhere near him. Even so, I didn’t want to test my theory and risk getting fired if I were wrong.

For the first time since I’d started working, I was glad David was a lecturer and only showed up a few hours a week. The less I saw his gorgeous face, the easier it would be to pretend he was only a colleague.

Days and weeks flew by. I made it a point to never visit the pub where I knew David hung out with his friends or the one in Salthill, where he’d been that night when he’d punched Peter, and I never went jogging near the cemetery again. I stuck to the Salthill Promenade and managed to dodge Ciara’s invitations to go out with her and Aidan’s friends with some pretty well-thought excuses that at first she seemed to buy—although, at one point I’d had to come clean with her and tell her the reason why I didn’t want to leave the house. She’d given me grief for a while, tried to use her psychological tricks to make me change my mind, but eventually she understood and let me be. We agreed I would go out with her occasionally on a girls’ night to watch a movie. Ciara thought it was stupid of me to waste my weekends locked up in the house because of a man, but I knew it wouldn’t be forever—just until I managed to purge my system of any feelings for David. It was getting colder and I’d never been a party girl anyway, so I didn’t mind staying at home with Robbie and read a book or watch a movie while Ciara hit the town with her boyfriend.

The last week before Christmas break, Susan was home sick with a bout of flu and I was alone in the office. When David walked in, more beautiful than ever wearing a dark V-neck sweater, with a light blue button-down underneath, and a pair of dress pants, I nearly had to pick up my jaw from the floor.

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