In My Life (3) (The Mile High Club) by Jade Powers

Author:Jade Powers [Powers, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jade Powers
Published: 2018-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

THE BLINKING RED LIGHT on the answering machine could have been anyone. Lauren almost crashed into a much needed sleep before playing the messages. The first was Sven. The second was her sister. The third was Lucas.

Lucas. She’d practically ignored him when they were all together at the airport. That first hug felt good, though.

Lauren picked up the phone, dialed the area code, and then hung up before he could answer. Not yet. Lauren wasn’t ready.

She opened the refrigerator door, hauled out turkey, Swiss cheese, a tomato, and lettuce. The bread was also in the refrigerator, the mark of a single woman. She dipped a butter knife into the mayonnaise and attacked the bread, ignoring the message on the answering machine, ignoring Lucas. She had no idea what to say to him. Her tomato slicing left ragged edges. Lauren tore the lettuce and buried emotions that made no sense.

Anger. Why?

She carried her sandwich to the couch, flipping through channels until she found a rerun of Cheers. Lauren savored the taste of the sandwich, each flavor a blessing. She was alive. What the hell was she doing watching television?

Lauren turned off the television. Damn it.

Before she could think too hard about what she was doing, Lauren dialed Lucas, her fingers wrapping around and around the cord as if she could strangle her own feelings with it.

Lucas picked up, “I thought you weren’t going to call back. You were so distant on the plane.”

Lauren remembered back. She had hugged him, but then all focus had gone to Sven and Tom with hardly a thought to Lucas. Well, that wasn’t true. Lauren had always been aware of Lucas, no matter what the conversation or where. Hyperaware and awkward. She said, “I didn’t know where we stood.”

“What do you mean?”

It was nice that Lucas was confused. But now she was going to have to tell him how little she trusted him. Lauren took a deep breath. She said, “I wasn’t sure if you were just using me to get what you needed for McFarland or if you actually like me. If I acted like we were together in front of Sven and Tom, and you pulled away, it would have killed me.”

“Wow. Okay. I see how it stands. You don’t trust me at all. Thanks for the fun times.”

Lucas hung up on her.

Lauren bit her lip. If she left it standing, he wouldn’t call back. She knew something about pride. That was the final nail in the coffin where she buried her love for Drake.

Finally, she rang Lucas up again.

He didn’t answer.

She rang again. This would be the last time.

As if he heard her thoughts, Lucas picked up.

Lauren said, “Why did you hang up on me? I’m still trying to figure out what’s going on.”

“When we made love at my office, I felt a connection. There was nothing more real to me, and now you’re telling me that all along you thought I was using you. Which pretty much tells me that you were using me.

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