Heartstrings by Sara Walter Ellwood

Author:Sara Walter Ellwood
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Lyrical Press, Inc.
Published: 2013-03-31T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

“So, Abby.” Jenny Lynn stirred cream into her coffee. “Are you ever gonna spill?”

Abby swallowed the bite of steak fajita and followed it with a sip of water. She ignored the speculative stares of her friends across the table from her. After Seth’s concert at the nursing home, she and Jenny Lynn were taking Darlene out to dinner before she had to get back to Amarillo and her dying husband.

She set her glass on the table. “Spill what? My water?”

“You’re a comedian. You know very well what.” Darlene laid her napkin on the table beside her plate. “You were pretty darned cozy today with a certain hunk we all know and love.”

“I still can’t believe you didn’t tell us you were actually friends with Seth Kendall,” Jenny Lynn lamented.

“Friends?” Darlene snapped her head around to look at the younger woman. “I’d call it dating, if you ask me.” She sat back with smug amusement twisting her lips and brightening her ruddy face. “I hear from a very trustworthy birdie he’s arranged for a private table for two at the Lakeside Grille. Sounds like a date to me.”

Jenny Lynn turned her wide eyes to Abby. “Dating? You’re freakin’ dating superstar Seth Kendall?”

She glanced around at the other tables in the crowded diner. “Shh! Keep your voice down. I might be dating Seth. But right now, we’re still getting to know each other again. He’s a lot different than he was fifteen years ago.”

“I’d say so.” Jenny’s grin got bigger as she leaned back in her seat. “He’s undoubtedly sexier. It’s high time you start going out again. Mike had no problem moving on after you two entered Splitsville.”

She couldn’t argue with the truth. Seth had always been good-looking, but now he was all grown up. She wanted him, but she couldn’t lose herself in him.

She was about to change the subject when Darlene said, “I agree with Jenny Lynn. You need to start living again.”

“And who better to do it with.” Jenny Lynn sipped her coffee. “So, what’s he like?

She picked at the peppers on her plate with her fork. “He’s fun, sometimes a little too full of himself, but I’ve always had a good time with Seth.”

“Damn, girl, I wasn’t asking about that.”

She looked up, puzzled. Then it dawned on her. “You think I’m sleeping with him?”

“Hell, I would be.”

“Well, I’m not you.”

“Girls, let’s remember we’re in a public place,” Darlene, who was older than Abby by more than ten years, chided in a motherly tone. Then the mother hen turned her attention on Jenny Lynn. “By the way, what’s up with you and Wayne Cover? I thought you dumped him. But you were hanging all over him today after the concert.”

Jenny shrugged and stirred her coffee again. Her turn to play coy. “We’ve decided to give it another try.”

Abby, glad the focus was off her, smiled and sipped her water as the other women discussed the drummer’s attributes.

She considered her date with Seth on Saturday. She’d originally invited him to her home.

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