London from My Windows by Mary Carter

Author:Mary Carter [Carter, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-06-05T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

Ava perched on her stool and opened her laptop. London was only half-gray today. Strips of blue cut through the remainder of the sky, offering a little bit of hope. It made Ava hungry. After Queenie’s apoplectic reaction to her not having plastic, Ava had applied online for a credit card. It was in her pile of mail this morning. She never knew it would be that easy. Then again, she didn’t have any debt and she had a decent savings. And this was without mentioning that she might soon be the proud owner of a European flat. She’d put in her mother’s address in Iowa, and when the card arrived her mother had graciously mailed it. They weren’t talking a lot these days, but at least they were somewhat communicating. The mail here was delivered to a little room on the first floor, but Queenie always brought hers up. There was just one note from her mother with the credit card: You need this for? Her limit was only $1,000, presumably because she had very little credit to begin with. But a thousand dollars was plenty. She put on some music, and a black silk robe that she had taken to calling her dressing gown. She danced around the flat with her credit card before settling onto her stool with her laptop.

Food! Mangia! Yum! Most girls would take their plastic to Marks & Spencer, Harrods, or Selfridges, but Ava had her eye on Sainsbury’s.

She would order groceries online, then request that Vic deliver them. Or she could just invite her over like a normal friend might do, have her in for tea and crumpets, but what if Vic didn’t think of her as a friend? Or normal? She did kind of disappear on Vic and her mysterious gardener friend, Deven, although that was after they disappeared on her. Were Vic and Deven in love? Had they already shagged? Ava loved all the British terms. Shagged. Made her think of doing it on carpets from the seventies. Whether or not they’d had sex, Ava couldn’t believe how fast Vic had bonded with this guy. Ava had been drawing him for days and didn’t feel the need for anything more.

Then again, her feelings for Jasper had taken off like a rocket, hadn’t they? She’d felt a spark with him from the moment she saw his handsome, grief-stricken face on the video, and she’d even been attracted to him when he was posing as a bearded, lovesick taxi driver. When the chemistry was there, it was undeniable. She would have sworn it wasn’t possible to feel so connected so fast. Maybe it was because Beverly loved him, and he her; maybe it bridged some kind of gap. All she knew was that he triggered her like no one else had ever done. And she liked it. That was the wild part. She actually liked feeling this way. It was like a drug. Thoughts, feelings, fantasies. How did people deal with all these things happening to them? It made it hard to get on with the business of life.

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