I'm Not Charlotte Lucas by Kasey Stockton

Author:Kasey Stockton [Stockton, Kasey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Covenant Communications, Inc.
Published: 2023-02-06T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

If I could have any magical power in the world, I would choose teleportation—the ability to pop from one place to another instantly would feed both my strong desire to travel the world and my responsibilities at home. But sometimes, like in this instance, it would simply benefit me to disappear. Catching Andy’s eye turned out to be a bigger mistake than I’d anticipated. Now I actually had to confront him. Oh, heavens. What was I thinking?

“What are you doing here?” Panic rapidly shifted his gaze between me and his table mate, betraying the last minuscule thread of hope I held onto that Andy wasn’t doing anything wrong.

“Hello,” I said, directing my attention to the busty blonde. I reached forward to shake her hand. “I’m Charlie.”

“Laura,” she said, confused.

“Good to meet you, Laura. How do you know Andy?” I tilted my head, hoping to look innocently interested. Andy’s face had gone beet red, making his blond hair look yellow. Not a cute look.

“I’m his hygienist.” She showcased a set of blindingly perfect teeth. It did seem, in some cases, one could have teeth that were too white.

Ah, he had told me about a woman called Laura. So, he was still hooking up with a girl from work? How very unethical of him. Andy swallowed so hard his Adam’s apple bobbed, and I glanced between them. Well, great. I’d caught Andy in the act of eating dinner with the hygienist that he had admitted to dating when we were having our weird confessional, but now what? If this were a movie, I would pick up the glass of lemon water on the table and throw it in his face—maybe the acid would go so far as to burn his eyes—but now, in real life? Now I was just mortified.

I felt like an idiot, my neck growing warm from the stares all around the restaurant and the knowledge that Liam was somewhere behind me with front-row tickets to the show.

“How do you know Dr. Jacobsen?” Laura asked, her eyes narrowing slightly.

Dr. Jacobsen? Oh, Andy. He preferred to be called by the title when he could, but I’d found it stuffy and awkward and never was quite in the habit of saying it as often as he would have liked.

Another warning sign, that. Why had I not seen all the red flags before now?

“We used to date,” Andy said quickly.

I opened my mouth to argue, but it was true, and he probably knew it. I could walk away now, let him and Laura enjoy their dinner and get on with their risqué office romance. But Laura hadn’t known who I was. If they were still dating, he had cheated on her as much as he had me.

Women should always look out for one another.

Resolve settled on my shoulders, and I faced Andy, smiling with no warmth. “Yes, actually. We used to date about a year ago. We didn’t work out because we just weren’t compatible.”

“Tough,” Laura said, trying to look sympathetic. She was likely wondering why I’d approached them in the first place.

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