Hurt by Bruce Lila

Author:Bruce, Lila [Bruce, Lila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-14T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Nicole closed the heavy oak door shut and turned the key in the lock. Out of habit, she tried the door and then, satisfied it was secure, turned and headed to her green Honda parked in the driveway of the two story brick house. There had been a good turnout at the open house and Nicole was more than a little tired. She’d already called in a take-out order at a nearby barbeque restaurant and was ready to call it a day and head back to her own home to settle in for the evening.

She backed the Honda out of the driveway, pausing to check for traffic before pulling out onto the street. It was an older neighborhood with most of the residents coming from even older money, but, even so, it had a fair amount of cars that traveled through due to its proximity to nearby shopping centers and restaurants. Nicole didn’t expect the two story brick to be on the market for very long. Houses in this neighborhood typically sold quickly simply because there was such low turnover amongst its residents.

Nicole gave a bitter smile as she tried to remember the last house that she’d had listed in the neighborhood and then realized it had been that one. The house that had gotten broken into the day after Nicole had held its open house. The one that had led to her meeting Jamie.

She blew out a breath and felt her stomach turn as she thought about the lunch she had planned with Jamie tomorrow. Nicole wondered if she shouldn’t have let Julie come after all. As much as she had told her protesting friend that she could more than handle the meeting, now that she was less than twenty-four hours out, Nicole wasn’t so sure. She wanted to believe what Jamie had said in her voicemail, but at the same time…

Nicole tightened her grip on the steering wheel as she came to a red light. God, she loved Jamie, but she couldn’t ignore what she’d seen. Jamie, dressed only in her underwear, standing there with her arms wrapped around the blonde. It just hit too close to home, was just too much like what she’d gone through with Carol. Still, in the year plus that they had been together, this was the longest stretch she had gone without talking to Jamie. More than a little part of her was aching to hear Jamie’s husky voice.

She jumped as a horn blew from behind her and Nicole realized the light had turned green. She threw an apologetic hand up and then accelerated, trying unsuccessfully to keep her thoughts off Jamie and in the present.

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