His Wild Blue Rose by A.J. Downey

Author:A.J. Downey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Second Circle Press

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Alyssa…

“Dinner?” Kenzie echoed in my ear. I tucked my phone between my neck and shoulder and sighed.

“Not just dinner, Kenzie! Like fancy, like a date.”

“How fancy?” she asked suspiciously.

“Like, ‘The Grotto’ fancy,” I said and tried not to wince as I said the restaurant’s name. It was someplace I had always wanted to go at least once, but it was oh-my-god expensive. You could easily drop three hundred dollars for a dinner for two, but the place was magic.

“Holy shit, Lys. This guy is taking you to ‘The Grotto’ on a cop’s salary? He’s, like, totally sprung on you. What have you been doing? Putting Viagra in his coffee?”

I snorted and shook my head, dropped the phone and bit out a curse. I picked it up off the cement floor and said, “I dropped you,” but I don’t think Kenzie heard me, she was too busy laughing her ass off on the other end of the phone. I smiled and resisted giving her the satisfaction of joining in. I was trying to be serious here. I was nervous about it.

Kenzie got herself together and said, “When are you supposed to go?”

I clipped the end off of a rose and admitted, “Tonight.”

Dead. Silence.

“When did he ask you, again?”

I blushed and said, “Um, the middle of the week, last week.”

“You waited a week-and-a-half to tell me about this? Lys, come on!”

“I know, I’m sorry! I guess I was still in shock and couldn’t believe that I actually said yes!”

“What are you wearing?” she demanded.

“Can’t go wrong with an LBD,” I sang out.

“Okay, you have like three little black dresses, which one? You know what, never mind, when are you supposed to go? I’ll come over and help you out.”

“Tonight, I said that already,” I said, exasperated, and Kenzie spluttered.

“Oh, what the fuck, Lys? What time?” she demanded.

I told her and there was more dead silence on the other end of the line, which I rushed to fill.

“I know, I’m sorry! I should have told you about it a lot sooner, and I was thinking the cocktail dress, you know the one –“

“With the slit up to there,” we both said in unison. We laughed.

“Yes, that one,” I said.

“Good choice! I think you should go, I think you should have a fabulous time, and I think you should let your sexy-as-sin roommate bang your brains out.”

“Kenzie!”

“What? There’s life after Ray, you know, and you should totally be living it.”

I groaned, “Why’d you have to say his name?”

She heaved a heavy sigh on the other end of the line and said, “Lys, I’m worried about you.”

“I’m worried about me, too!” I declared.

“Okay, why? Why are you worried?”

I chewed my bottom lip carefully and let out a defeated sigh; I hated talking about me and my feelings. It always felt like I was opening myself up to drama… but this was Kenzie and she hadn’t said a thing to make me feel bad about any of this, so I went with it.

“He’s my roommate, Kenz.

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