Love Is by S.E. Harmon

Author:S.E. Harmon [Harmon, S.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inkspell Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-11-09T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Early the next morning, my ill-advised bet with Jackson had me in line, waiting at the corner Starbucks. He’d trounced me soundly with too many witnesses for me to welsh on our bet. I maintained that if my arms hadn’t been worn out from paddle boarding, I could have taken him, those well-muscled, tattooed biceps be damned. I tapped an impatient foot as I waited, letting the smell of coffee perk me up.

It was a moment before I realized I was humming. Humming. I was humming to myself like a crazy person who actually enjoyed mornings, and it had nothing to do with the peppy music piping through the store’s speakers. I’d done the same thing a little earlier in the shower. Little things like that were letting me know that Houston, I’ve got a big problem. Not an engine kind of problem. More of an I’m-out-of-freeze-dried-ice-cream-and-still-two-months-away-from-Earth kind of problem.

I was rethinking my policy on casual sex. Rethinking it kind of hard. I didn’t need any empirical evidence to know that casual sex was a stupid idea and rarely worked out the way it was supposed to. I already knew that, and usually I was one hundred percent against it. I was the sensible one, the one people come to who cautioned them against this kind of crazy.

Take Julian, for example. He’d wanted to sleep with our supplier, the guy with the sexy tattoos and ear gauges. The one who gave us a great discount on iPad accessories? Well, I’d gently discouraged Julian from mixing business with pleasure. If you asked Julian, he might remember it a little differently, and claim that I used the phrase, “Don’t be such a hoebag,” but my point remains. When Art wanted to go to Vegas with a girl he’d known for a week, I’d gently cautioned against it. If asked, he might remember the phrase, “Stop being led around by your dick,” being used. But my point remains.

I was usually against hooking up. But then Jackson happened, all sculpted muscled body and twinkling eyes, and my body was going AWOL trying to convince my mind that we could make it work. And that even if we couldn’t, it might be worth the consequences.

I huffed out a breath, causing the guy in front of me to turn. He gave me a friendly smile that I tried to return, but wound up baring my teeth at him. He turned around pretty quickly.

My phone vibrated and I fished it out of my pocket. Where r the faceplates 4 the iphones? Julian’s text read. Nerds r demanding them. I grinned. So what else was new? The Nerd Herd was always demanding something. I texted a quick “which iphones” before moving up in line. The phone binged again as I placed my order with a barista so professional and fake that she still probably had plastic tab inserts on her arms. I glanced down at the screen again as he sent me the models.

When my phone binged again, I rolled my eyes and called him instead of responding.

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