Heart of Glass by Dale Lindy

Author:Dale, Lindy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, coming of age, sex, true love, womens fiction, chicklit, romance novel, romance fiction, womens ficton, womens fiction chicklit
Publisher: Secret Creek Press

Chapter 16

JEALOUS GUY

I’m just a jealous guy

John Lennon

Dean and I were sitting across the table from one another, at our little celebration dinner as he was calling it. Our break was over and he was so happy that, like a born again Christian, I had seen the error of my ways. I wasn’t so sure.

“Do you like honey?” I asked, thinking that I might be able to coax him out of his permanent press mould and lure him to something slightly more risqué.

“Why?”

“Just wondering.”

He frowned across the table. “Have you been reading Penthouse Forum again? You know those letters aren’t real. It’s very degrading to women.”

“Oh for heaven’s sake, it was only a question.” I wished I’d never asked.

Content that the interrogation was complete; Dean leant across and squeezed my hand. “I’ve missed you.”

“Yeah, me too,” I said. In a way it was true. I’d missed the security he provided and the neurotic way he placed his shoes in the same spot near the door when he came to visit. I’d missed the way he filled the gap in the bed, the one that Ben was meant to have but never would. It was comforting, in an obsessive-compulsive way, to have him back.

I gazed into his eyes with all the sincerity of a Hallmark card, thinking how perfect it would be if he were the same Dean with Nick’s sexual aptitude and Ben’s personality.

“Are you listening to me?” he asked, noting my inattention with a snort.

“Of course, sweetie.”

“Do you want to go over to the pub?”

“That’d be fun, there’s a band playing tonight.”

“Is everything alright?” His face was a picture of paternal concern that made me want to puke. I should never have got back with him. I should’ve dumped him and put us both out of our misery but I couldn’t. Besides, he said I needed to think of others more. Wasn’t that what was doing?

“Everything’s fine. I’ll go to the Ladies first. You go on ahead. I’ll catch up.”

Dean nodded and wandered over to pay the bill.

I escaped to the Ladies. Was he a complete fool? If he wasn’t, he was bound to notice when he and Nick came face to face. For the last month I’d been a woman possessed, finding any opportunity to go the bar to see him. My barren pantry was now overflowing with honey and other delights that could be licked, sucked and slurped without using a spoon and I’d walked past the city’s one and only sex shop at least a dozen times.

I caught up with Dean outside the door to the restaurant and grabbed hold of his hand. We walked in silence for a minute and then he did something so out of character, I was convinced he’d gone bonkers. He stopped right in the middle of the road; pulled me into his arms, and kissed me so hard I blinked in disbelief. Before I could ask, he came straight out and said what was on his mind. “Are you sleeping with someone else?”

“No.

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