Love Is...: A Walking Wounded Short Story by Lauren Gilley

Author:Lauren Gilley [Gilley, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HP Press
Published: 2017-02-11T05:00:00+00:00

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It’s a gym morning instead of a running morning, and Hal spends an extra fifteen minutes on the treadmill in an attempt to counteract last night’s fried chicken. In an unusual twist, Luke was up this morning before he was, hunched over his laptop and nursing espresso. The book is worrying him.

Something else is worrying Hal.

When Sandy offers him coffee and tells him Matt will be a few minutes coming down, he snags a bar stool and clears his throat, already nervous about what he’s going to ask her.

Sandy, because she’s Sandy, freezes in the act of stirring her own coffee and looks up at him, eyes wide and inviting.

“Um,” he starts, gracefully. “I wanted to ask you something, but I know it’s not really my place to–”

She silences him with a wave. “You and Luke saved my husband’s life. You can ask me whatever, whenever. Ask away.” And that’s that.

He takes a deep breath anyway. “So Valentine’s Day is coming up.”

Her smile widens.

“And even though Luke pretends he’s a prickly hedgehog, he’s actually the most secretly-romantic person I know.”

“Don’t we all know it, honey.”

“And I want to something special for him…”

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