Lost and Found by Katrina Grillo

Author:Katrina Grillo [Grillo, Katrina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Gemma

The last place I want to be tonight is working at the bar, but here I am. I’m still a little hung over from last night and desperately want to be laying on the couch watching crappy reality TV, but I also desperately want to see Spence again.

There’s also no way Liam would give me the night off because I’m hungover.

As soon as the band shows up I can tell something is off. Spence won’t even look at me. Considering he hasn’t missed an opportunity to flirt with me since the moment we met, this feels like a red flag.

“Does Spence seem weird to you tonight?” I ask Amanda, who reconciled with Lucas and has barely disentangled herself from him all night.

She shrugs. “I don’t know. I haven’t been paying attention to him.”

Eventually Max comes over to the bar and I beeline over to take his order.

“What’s the deal with Spence tonight?” I ask him, not even bothering to beat around the bush.

“Why don’t you tell me?” he says, giving me a pointed look.

“Hey, whatever his problem is I didn’t have anything to do with it. He was fine last time I saw him.”

Max’s expression softens. “Sophie told me you guys ran into him last night.”

“Yeah, we did,” I confirm. “And he was fine.”

“That’s what she said, too. So you haven’t talked to him since then?”

“Nope, not a word.”

He frowns. “Well, he’s pissed off about something, I figured it had to do with you.”

“Wow, thanks a lot, Max,” I say, shaking my head.

“No offense, but it’s pretty clear he’s ignoring you and he wants you to know.”

“Yeah, I noticed that.” I sigh. “Should I go talk to him?”

“You can try, but I doubt it’ll do any good. He’s impossible when he gets like this.” Max glances over at Amanda, who is staring moony-eyed at Lucas. “And then there’s those two. I don’t know what you girls are doing to my band, but it would be nice if you would knock it off.”

I hand Max his beer, accidentally-on-purpose sloshing a bit of it on the bar as I do. He walks away, and I tell Dominick, the other bartender working tonight, I need to take five.

The bar is crowded and I have to elbow my way over to where the band is setting up. Spence’s back is to me, and as I get closer I see he’s talking to someone. A girl. She’s holding a drink in one hand and twirling her hair with the other, gazing up at Spence with a look of complete adoration on her face. I stop dead in my tracks.

The girl sees me staring at her and tears her eyes away from Spence long enough to glance over at me and frown. Spence notices and turns around to see what she’s looking at.

He has that look on his face. The one I love because it makes my knees feel like jelly, and the one I hate because he gives it away like candy to all the girls.

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