Match Point by RL Burgess

Author:RL Burgess [Burgess, RL]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Lesbian
ISBN: 9781594934834
Amazon: 1594934835
Barnesnoble: 1594934835
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2016-03-28T22:00:00+00:00

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Jodi awoke the next morning to the silent flicker of the television in the darkened room and a pasty taste in her mouth. Her head clanged with pain as she shifted on the pillow and reached for her water bottle, greedily sucking down the water as her temples pounded in protest.

“Oh God,” she croaked, looking at the half-empty whiskey bottle on the bedside table. She had really done a number on herself.

She switched off the television with the remote and sat up slowly, waiting for the room to stop spinning before she inched open the curtains. As daylight streamed in, she winced and quickly shut them again. Jodi lay back down in the semi-darkness, her body stiff and her head sore, grateful for the black-out drapes. She rolled over and closed her eyes. She needed more sleep.

Some hours later, she awoke feeling marginally better and hungry. She ordered up a plate of toast and coffee, pleased with herself for keeping it down when it arrived.

As Jodi nursed her second cup of coffee and looked out the window at the rooftops of the surrounding high-rise buildings, she allowed herself to revisit the memories of yesterday. Shame flooded her as she recalled what she had said to Miranda. She had felt out of control. Unable to stop herself, the words seemed to run sharply and coldly from her tongue of their own accord. For some reason she had wanted to hurt Miranda, to cut through her perfect, unruffled exterior, and to hurt her like she herself was hurting. I was a horrible bitch, she thought. It wasn’t her fault I lost. It was all my own. I should never have blamed her.

She wondered if Miranda would quit now. Jodi tried to put herself in Miranda’s shoes, imagining how it would have felt to be bawled out like that and wishing that she had done things differently. I’d probably leave if that happened to me, Jodi admitted. If someone treated me the way I treated Miranda yesterday, I’d tell them to go to hell.

Jodi knew Miranda had tried to be diplomatic, taking it on the chin in her role as coach, but Jodi also knew that if it had been Jason in that room with her she wouldn’t have gotten away with that kind of behavior. Jase wouldn’t stand for that kind of crap, she thought, as a cocktail of pain and regret mixed inside her. She had taken advantage of Miranda’s good nature and inexperience to vent some misplaced anger and she felt horribly ashamed.

She reached for the phone. I need to call her, Jodi decided. Wait, what am I going to say? She replaced the receiver, resting her hand on it as she stared into space and wondered how to phrase her apology. Jodi remembered the look on Miranda’s face as she had ranted, and it cut her to the quick. I put that look on her face, she thought sadly.

She needed some air to clear her head before she spoke to Miranda, so that she could say the right things.

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