Little Blue by Eva Marks

Author:Eva Marks [Marks, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Avery

“Enjoy the weekend.” I smile at my team. “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t!”

They chuckle, saying Bye back, and walk out together. I stuff my laptop into my bag plus the couple of catalogs Edna dropped off for me to go through over the weekend for our meeting on Monday, then grab my phone, checking the messages.

The last and only non-work-related text I received was from Jen about an hour ago, asking me if it’s okay to bring Briar to our Friday night girls’ date at Robel’s. I don’t mind the company, even though it’s our girls’ tradition. Briar is so good to my friend that I’m happy to have him join us.

Kind of like I wish Hudson would’ve. I’m still beating myself up for what I told him three days ago, how my self-preservation trumped what my heart truly feels. When he touched me, cocooned me, claimed me as though I was his, I really was, and the man had a way to my soul like no other. How stupid was I to say he didn’t know me?

With him, I belonged, I was loved, and I wanted to show my love for him in return. Which, in retrospect, was what scared the life out of me. This all-encompassing love, this unparalleled compatibility in every possible aspect that no one’s ever come close to, it’s too big, too scary. One of us had to break it.

My brain knows it. My heart, it still longs for that impossible love, and I can’t stop staring at the phone, expecting a call from him. And I’m disappointed, even though what I suspected from the very start finally happened.

But I’ll get over it. A couple or five cranberry vodkas and I’ll be as good as new.

Sighing, I shoot Jen a message, saying Of course. I secure the strap of my bag to my shoulder, passing through the mostly empty offices and down the elevators, and out of the building. It’s dark out, the sun having set an hour ago. I stand on the sidewalk near where I parked my bike, fluttering my eyes shut and wrapping my ponytail in my hand like I have the past three days.

The street noise ceases to exist.

The softness of a thin, expensive tie wraps around my head, covering my eyes.

You’re such a good girl.

Heat spreads through me, surrounding me in the feel of Hudson. My breasts fit too snugly inside my mint-colored blouse, the crotch of my jeans suddenly too tight. My belly thrums, anticipation building.

Waiting for him.

Thank you, I imagine me saying. I love you.

What I’m doing isn’t healthy, it won’t make forgetting him any easier, yet I can’t seem to help myself, can’t stop craving him.

I open my eyes and…he’s gone.

Hopping on my bike, I navigate my way through the city, averting my focus to the street, the people, and the end-of-the-week vibes of the city. The diversion distracts me from Hudson, which I’m grateful for, and by the time I hop off my bike outside

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