Lost in a Moment by Nicky James

Author:Nicky James [James, Nicky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Beckett

If I wasn’t entirely focused on the way the low restaurant lighting twinkled off Nova’s braces as she talked then I was rolling Gray’s words around my head, dismissing my date altogether. As it stood, I hadn’t absorbed a single word she’d said, and we’d nearly finished our entrees.

Giving my head a shake, I refocused on her and tried to catch up on the conversation.

“…and then, out of nowhere, she has new scissors. Ones that are identical to the ones I’ve been missing for three weeks. She expects me to believe she just randomly decided to spend a thousand dollars on identical sheers? Like I’m an idiot. I may be blonde, but I’m not stupid. Anyhow, so I confront her…”

I drained my wine and zoned out of the conversation again. I’d forgotten she was a hairdresser. And a talker. There was a reason I’d put her mouth to work last time we’d gone on a date. I shuddered, noting the razor threat gleaming in her mouth and the risk I’d willingly taken.

Sitting in the restaurant, it was becoming harder and harder to remember why I’d been so adamant on having this second date to begin with. I’d practically begged Maria to talk me up so Nova would give me a second chance—since I’d done the “I’ll call you” and never bothered thing the first time around.

She was cute. Tiny, blonde, freckles across her nose, shapely but not too curvy, jade-colored eyes, long lashes, but most importantly, she didn’t have an interest in contacting the dead like freaky Willow. She was my type all wrapped up into one petite little package. Almost perfect, except…

“When do you get your braces off?” I inquired.

My random question injected into the middle of her story jarred her to a stop. Only after the words fell from my mouth did I register how inattentive I just made myself look. She sipped her wine and poked her salad, pushing her food around her plate but not really eating. Why did girls do that?

“Another year yet.” That was disappointing. “I heard about your friend. He’s the guy who lost his leg in that storm a while ago, isn’t he? House collapsed or something.”

For no reason at all, her question rose my defenses, and I frowned. “Yeah. He was. Why?”

She looked startled by my abrupt response and ducked her head to her plate, finally shoving a small bit of fish into her mouth. “I just feel awful for him. What a horrible accident.”

This date was not going as planned.

Considering my intention was to remind my body of what it enjoyed—which was not a firm chest, toned abs, broad shoulders, and a twelve o’clock shadow—I was having a hard time evicting Gray from my head. Nova asking about him wasn’t helping.

“We saw his picture online. Larissa and me.” Her best friend, if I understood correctly. “We should double date sometime. Larissa thinks he’s sexy. She doesn’t care if he’s a cripple.”

“Don’t call him that.” There was something about that term that really dug under my skin.

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