In His Shadow (Tangled Ivy Book 1) by Snow Tiffany

Author:Snow, Tiffany [Snow, Tiffany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2014-12-16T08:00:00+00:00

Logan wanted me to take Friday off work, but I refused. I felt like I needed to get back to my life, back to being normal, because “normal” was the last adjective I’d use to describe how I felt.

I’d never been so at sea before or felt so lost, and I never would have thought that losing someone would make me feel that way.

Being in a relationship—caring for someone, being sexually involved with them—had always been a vague, distant sort of thing to me. Yes, it would happen to me . . . at some point. The fact that it had happened, and so suddenly, made its loss that much more acute and I didn’t know how to handle it.

“You okay?” Marcia asked as she poured herself a cup of coffee. We were in the break room grabbing a refill, and she was watching me stir my coffee while I absently stared off into space.

“Hmm? Oh, yeah, I’m fine,” I replied, giving her a wan smile.

“Uh-oh,” she said, eyeing me. “I know that look. I’ve had that look. It’s a guy, isn’t it. Tell me.” She leaned back against the counter expectantly, taking a cautious sip of the hot coffee.

I shook my head. “You wouldn’t believe it if I told you.”

“Try me,” she insisted.

I heaved a sigh. Maybe it would be good to talk to someone. Lord knew I couldn’t talk to Logan about it. We’d been carefully polite since I’d gotten back home, neither of us bringing up Devon or what had happened.

“Remember that guy?” I asked. “From the robbery?”

“The one who was all about protecting you that day? The guy you can’t stand?”

I nodded. “Well, he and I kind of got . . . involved.”

“O. M. G.,” she said, her eyes wide. “I’m so jealous right now. Not only gorgeous, but a badass, too.” She grinned and winked at me. “You go, girl.”

“Yeah, well, I thought we kind of had something, you know?” I continued. Talking about it did help, and now that I had started, I wanted to tell her everything. Well, almost everything. “But then he just . . . ended it. And now, I just feel so alone and I-I really miss him.” I cleared my throat past the lump that had formed and blinked back the tears that threatened.

“Did he say why he ended it?” Marcia asked.

“No. Not really.” I didn’t want to voice the fear inside my head—that he’d tired of me.

“Have you tried calling him? Texting him?”

I shook my head, too embarrassed to admit I didn’t even have his number.

“I’m not usually a big fan of chasing a guy if he’s not that into me,” she said, “but in this case, maybe you should go see him. At least get him to give you some kind of explanation or a decent goodbye-have-a-nice-life.”

“I don’t want to look desperate,” I hedged.

“He owes you that much,” she insisted. “Besides, you only live once, right?”

She had a point there. Several, actually.

“I’ll think about it,” I said as we headed back toward our booths.

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