Misadventures with a Speed Demon by Bliss Chelle

Author:Bliss, Chelle
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-64263-003-9
Publisher: Waterhouse Press
Published: 2018-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

Brooks

Ms. Constance sits across from me at Bella Donna, the best Italian restaurant in Buxton, wearing a sleek black cocktail dress with so many diamonds around her neck that no one’s looking at her cleavage. She’s sipping a glass of the most expensive champagne on the menu and, surprisingly, being a perfect lady. She barely even flirts with me. She insists we only have the best of everything, and I wasn’t about to argue since she is picking up the tab.

“Do you ever get lonely?” She holds the champagne flute against her lips and stares at me over the rim. “You know, being on the road as much as you are?”

“Not really.” At least I didn’t think of myself as lonely. Sure, there were times when I wanted someone in my life to share my victories with at the end of a hard-fought weekend. But I’d never had that, not even as a kid, so I wasn’t sure how not being by myself even felt.

That is…until Faith. We’ve successfully kept our distance after work hours, only interacting when completely necessary for the last few days. I leaned on the guys in the garage more, picking their brains and asking for their guidance when I needed help. It has been the slowest few days of my life.

Ms. Constance sets her drink on the table and touches the diamond necklace draped around her neck. “I do.” She strokes the diamonds slowly and stares at the bubbles rising in her glass. “I was married once. Did you know that?”

I shake my head, settling back in my chair. “No, ma’am.”

“I loved my husband.” She giggles for a moment and covers her mouth with the back of her hand. “Husbands,” she corrects herself. “Each one was very different. My first husband, Daniel, he was the best man I’d ever meet.”

I toy with the napkin next to my plate but keep my eyes on her. “What happened? If you don’t mind me asking.”

She waves her hand and smiles softly. “No. I love talking about him, about us. We were only married a few years before he passed.”

“I’m so sorry.” For a moment, my heart aches for her. The loss she must’ve felt losing someone so soon after promising each other forever had to be unbearable.

“The hurt is still deep even after all these years.”

I nod as I lean forward, resting my arms on the table. For all her flaws, sleeping with Mr. Peabody and her gossiping nature, I could see the woman dying to be loved underneath. “I’m sure it is.”

“They say that eventually the sadness fades, but it’s not true.” She lifts her glass and takes a sip, staring into the distance.

“I can only imagine.”

“I hope you never have to experience that kind of loss.”

The Constance across the table is an entirely different version of the woman I met at the charity auction. There’s no innuendo or flirtation spilling from her lips. “I’m sorry I’m not acting like myself. This day is always hard for me.

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