Maybe Someone Like You by Stacy Wise

Author:Stacy Wise
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Embrace, New Adult; opposites attract; kickboxing; Los Angeles; sweet romance; coming of age
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

I walk up the sidewalk to the gym and spot Ryan standing outside near a parked car. I pick up my pace, but the sight of a girl with him causes me to falter. She leans against the car door, her long legs stretched out in front of her. She laughs at something he says, making her lips bloom like a rose. I can’t see his face, but the casual slope of his shoulders as he leans in to her tells me all I need to know. My stomach twinges.

He looks up as I draw closer, and I wrestle a smile onto my face. Throwing me a brief wave, he says, “I’ll be just a sec,” before turning back to the girl. She tugs on her long, auburn braid, looking impatient with the slight interruption. The fading sunlight catches tiny gold hoops that form a line up her ear. And to think I could only muster the courage to get one piercing in each ear.

Jasmine pushes the big dust mop in my direction as I tuck my shoes into a cubby. She stops near me and juts her chin toward the window. “Ryan should be in any second.”

“Okay.” The need to know who he’s talking to burns inside me. “Who’s he out there with?” I ask, as though I’m only mildly curious.

She shrugs. “Not sure. You know Ryan.” She laughs to herself as she pushes the mop in the opposite direction. Her phone buzzes in her pocket, and she stops to look at the text. “What the actual fuck?” she mutters.

“Everything okay?”

“No. No, it’s not. Fucking Roland got my cell number somehow, and he keeps texting me as if we’re dating. He’s delusional.”

“The computer guy again? Can’t you block his number?”

She twists the mop with so much force she has to realign the handle. “Of course I blocked him. Now he’s texting from another number.”

“So how do you know it’s him?”

She tosses her phone to me. “Read it.”

I scan the words.

Hi, sweetheart. I haven’t heard from you, and I can’t reach you at the gym. You must be working too hard. Would you like to come to my place for dinner tonight? I can order food from Garden Grill. —R

“Oh, geez. That’s weird.”

“Tell me about it. And how the fuck does he know that Garden Grill is one of my go-to places? It’s like he’s spying on me.”

I pass her phone to her. “Do you think he put spyware on the computers here?”

Her eyes go wide. “Could he do that without my knowledge?”

“Pretty easily. If he did, he can read every single keystroke. So if you’re sending personal emails, he’s seeing all of them.”

The color drains from her face. “That’s freaking scary.”

“Yeah. No kidding. I’d get someone in to check it out sooner than later. From a different company obviously.”

She nods. “Thanks. I’ll tell Javier right after his class.”

Grabbing a rope, I step onto the freshly clean mats to start my warm-up. Questions I could’ve asked Jasmine roll through my mind.

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