Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

Author:Anita Kelly [Kelly, Anita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: None
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2022-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Dahlia woke up far before London, while the sky was still dark.

She stared at them, how their eyelids twitched occasionally, their eyelashes brushing against their freckled cheeks, which looked ghostly in the dim light. She listened to the steady cadence of their breathing, smelled their skin, stared at their slightly open lips.

And then she started to feel creepy about it and flopped over to pick up her phone from her shorts, crumpled next to the bed.

Dahlia looked through Instagram blankly, liking every single post, even the boring ones, even the ones she probably shouldn’t be liking, from people she probably shouldn’t be following anymore, that she should have cut off after the divorce like they had cut her off. She imagined them looking at their phone in surprise when they saw her likes, pinging in at this ungodly hour. Dahlia wondered how many of them even knew she was here, that she was on Chef’s Special.

No, of course they would know. That kind of gossip wouldn’t go unheard. She wondered what their old friends were saying. Yeah, she left David high and dry, and now she’s flaunting herself on national TV? Seriously. The audacity.

Dahlia threw her phone onto the bed. She watched the sky begin to lighten through the gauzy white curtains. She contemplated getting up, taking a shower. But she didn’t want London to wake up and think she had left them. She wanted to be there when London woke up.

She looked over at them, still so silent and content and innocent looking, and she held back a scream, fisting her hands in her hair.

She had had sex with London Parker for two reasons.

One: She had wanted to. She had really, really wanted to. And LA Dahlia did what she wanted.

Two: She’d had a horrible day on set, and she thought sex would make her feel better.

It had, she supposed. She certainly didn’t give a fuck about soufflés anymore.

Now Dahlia just gave far too many fucks about everything else.

When she thought of the kiss on the beach, when she thought about the way she caught London looking at her sometimes, she had thought the sex would be fast and dirty. Raw and satisfying. She hadn’t anticipated that London would kiss every single inch of her, slow and studious.

Although in hindsight, of course she should have anticipated this. She’d seen London cook. She knew how attentive, how detail-oriented they were.

And of course sex would mean a lot to London, too. They had just told her they hadn’t slept with anyone since they came out as nonbinary. The look on their face, when they got undressed in front of her. She had wanted to wrap herself around them forever. Was she even worthy of that kind of trust?

No. She wasn’t. She knew that intrinsically.

Dahlia curled up on her side, staring at her messy room. At London’s soft T-shirt, thrown across the arm of a chair. She loved London’s T-shirts.

God. She slapped a hand to her face. They were literally just plain T-shirts.

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