Gunner: An Eidolon Black Ops Novel by Maddie Wade

Author:Maddie Wade [Wade, Maddie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Lacey applied the last swipe of mascara to her eyelashes and sat back from the mirror at her vanity to check the overall appearance. Clever make-up tricks she’d learned from the experts now hid the smudges under her eyes, the evidence of her heartbreak. She’d spent the first day after her break up with Gunner in bed crying and then she’d dragged her ass out of bed. Wallowing in self-pity would get her nowhere.

Now a week later, she was feeling a little more human at least. Her grief at his loss turning to mild depression. Her heart still ached when she thought about Gunner, which was why she’d tried to stay busy working and had even travelled to London to oversee the photo shoot for next spring’s children’s range. Waggs had been a good sport about it, and she found him good company, but his mannerisms so like the man she’d fallen for it made her miss Gunner more.

Her plan for today was to work from home, but she’d always taken care of herself and saw no reason to stop now just because she worked from home and was nursing a broken heart, so she’d made an effort to put on her face and dress in something fun. A yellow-spotted tie sleeve dress with a vee neck and buttons down the front that fell to her knees made her feel happier. Clothes had always been her way of making herself feel better. Certainly when she was with Carmine it had been the only thing she could control and, in the end, he’d taken that too.

Not like Gunner, he’d looked at her with desire and more no matter what she wore or didn’t wear. He’d never put a single second of pressure on her or told her she was lacking. All he’d done was make her feel like she was the most beautiful woman in the world. That in itself didn’t mean a lot to her, beauty was a perceived subject in her book. It was the way he made her feel strong, like they were partners, that had made her fall for him. Even in moments when she was weak, he never made her feel that way.

Lacey jumped when her phone that was sitting by the bed rang, and she moved to answer it, quickly, smiling when she saw Skye’s name. Her friend had shown up the second night after the-break-up-that-wasn’t-really-a-break-up because they hadn’t actually been together. A tub of ice-cream later the entire sorry story lay bare between them and a carton of chocolate chunk had been decimated.

“Hey, hun.”

“Hi. Guess who gave birth to a bouncing baby boy this morning?” Lacey could hear the excitement in her friend’s voice, and it was infectious as she felt the grin pull at her cheeks in happiness.

“Oh my God, did Roz have her baby?”

“Yep, early hours of this morning, two weeks late and he’s a bruiser, nine pounds three ounces.”

“Ouch, that makes me want to cross my legs. What did they call him?” Lacey relaxed back against the headboard and crossed her ankles.

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