Not OK, Cupid: A sparkling rom-com you won't want to put down! by Anna Kaling

Author:Anna Kaling [Kaling, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472266361
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2020-02-03T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Post-workout showers always left Ally feeling warm and relaxed. The hot water soothed the endorphin buzz into a pleasant, sleepy hum that made her limbs feel supple and heavy. She sat in the changing room in a towel and dried her hair with one hand while she checked her phone with another.

Four missed calls and a voicemail. A thrill fingered its way up her spine as she hit the icon with her thumb. Maybe Marc was free, and had tried to get hold of her in his lunch hour. He was much stricter than her about not using his phone at work.

But it wasn’t Marc. All the calls were from Sam. Worried, she called voicemail and waited impatiently for the recorded voice to give its spiel. Then the new message played.

‘Ally, call me back as soon as you get this,’ Sam hissed. ‘My dad came over, and—’

She dropped the phone and pressed a hand to her chest, unable to catch her breath.

Shit. Shit.

Why the hell hadn’t Marc warned her he was going to confess? Even if he didn’t want to face her being upset, he could at least have sent a message and blocked her number. This was just cruel, selfish.

Cruel and selfish weren’t two words she associated with him.

She gingerly picked up the phone and, with a knot in her stomach, played the message again.

‘Ally, call me back as soon as you get this. My dad came over, and he’s asking all these questions about you and me. I think he knows something’s up. I thought if you came over . . . Fucking hell, Ally, I wish I’d never started this. I keep dragging you into it and . . . Look, I need to go. Sorry for whispering. I’m hiding in the bathroom. Just call me, please?’

With a huge sigh of relief, she called. It was several rings before Sam picked up.

‘I’m hiding in the bathroom again,’ he said.

‘You’re not on the toilet, are you?’

‘It’s the tap running.’

‘Thank god. Sam, listen. Why don’t you just tell your dad the truth?’

There was a long silence. ‘It’s been so long I don’t know what to say. All the lies, all these years.’

‘He’ll understand. I don’t know him that well –’ she moved her weight from one foot to the other – ‘but I got the impression he was pretty relaxed about stuff. And it’s your mum’s reaction you’re worried about, not his, right?’

‘Yeah. But what if he tells her?’

‘Ask him not to. They aren’t married any more so his loyalties aren’t split.’

‘But when they get back together? I can just imagine Gavin’s wedding, with us pretending to be a couple and my dad knowing it’s all fake.’

Ally dug her fingernails into her palm. ‘Cross that bridge when –’if – ‘you come to it.’

Silence.

‘Won’t it feel good?’ she asked. ‘To not have to lie to him any longer?’

‘Yeah,’ he said finally. ‘Maybe. OK. No promises, but I’ll try.’

‘You can do it. Love you.’

‘Love you, too.’

Half an hour later, he sent a text to say he’d done it.

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