Once She Dreamed: Part One by Abbi Glines

Author:Abbi Glines [Glines, Abbi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Amazon: B01MDKBVVB
Publisher: Abbi Glines Publishing
Published: 2016-10-08T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Jamie was making wedding plans and Ben had stopped glaring at me in the way that made me nervous. He was marrying Jamie and respected that. I even saw affection in his gaze when he looked at her. It made things easier and more difficult for us all at the same time. I had suddenly become the third wheel or at least I felt that way. Our easy friendship was no longer. Jamie was my best friend and Ben was now her fiancé.

My world here was changing and it was time. It was time it changed for all of us. The idea of my best friends having a baby was exciting. Seeing them go from the kids we were to parents was something they both wanted and they were happy about it. Personally, myself, I was ready for something different, for my own selfish plans to unfold. Seeing them start their life anew made me want to do the same. That just meant getting out of here. Which was a lot more difficult without the means and the means meant more money.

This morning I had to walk to the bakery. Momma left early so I chose to walk, the exercise was good for me, and being out of doors, instead of in the bakery, would help with having to sit inside staring at the walls all day.

Soon friends would start going off to college. Even if it wasn’t a college far away, it was still somewhere else. I wanted to do the same, that being the best of my options. But I wasn’t scholarship material and momma couldn’t afford tuition or board or even qualify for the basic loans. She also needed my help at the bakery and I just couldn’t leave her twisting.

A car slowed down beside me. I turned my head to see a black Mercedes, a sedan all slick and gleaming. The passenger’s window lowered automatically and there was Hale Christopher Jude III as present as the clouds in the sky.

“Good morning,” he said, with that smile that was almost too perfect.

“Morning,” I replied, smiling also. Apparently he hadn’t been bored enough to stay away too long. “You in town for a cupcake?” I asked him.

He gave me a small shrug. “That wouldn’t be a bad idea, but I was actually hoping to talk to you.”

Oh. “Okay,” I said, slowing to a stop as he did.

“Want to get in?” I was taught not to get into a car with strangers. But this wasn’t a stranger. Sure, I knew very little about him, but I did know enough I guess. Or at least I thought I did. Opening the door I climbed inside wondering if anyone was watching. The idea of my mother standing outside the bakery ready to scold me in front of Hale made me anxious. But this was definitely worth it. The smell that met me was his cologne and the luxurious smell of new car. I inhaled twice rather deeply.

“Did you enjoy the

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