Out of Service by Heidi Lowe

Author:Heidi Lowe [Lowe, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, series
Publisher: Heidi Lowe Books
Published: 2018-09-12T23:00:00+00:00

TEN

Less than a year ago she’d stood in front of me at the Fairway Hotel, more furious than I’d ever seen her, and told me, in no uncertain terms, that she wanted nothing more to do with me. She’d completely disregarded my declaration of love; had dismissed my heartfelt words like they’d been said by a complete stranger. I’d lost my best friend, my parents, and then, the icing on the cake — the woman I was in love with. My darkest hour. Had Algebra not been there to pick up the pieces, I probably would have found a bridge to jump off. I was that low. I’d vowed never to let anyone hurt me like that again — friends, parents, nor lovers. I promised myself that I would never forgive any of them, especially her. So I’d held fast to the hatred while I was in London, clung to it like I was lost at sea and it was my raft. When the good memories filtered in accidentally, I replaced them with the memories of that fateful day at the Fairway, then I was able to hate her all over again.

But as she stood at my door, dark hair cascading down her shoulders, her royal blue dress hugging her body, lashes stretching to heaven, all I could remember was why I’d fallen in love with her in the first place; and why, after all this time, all the hurt, I still loved her now.

Her nervous smile lured her solitary dimple out. If the hypnotic emerald-green eyes and the svelte figure hadn’t already immobilized me, the dimple surely would have.

“Can I come in?”

I stepped aside, let her in but hung back, as though getting too close to her would be fatal. She did a lap of the room, taking everything in: the poster of Melissa Etheridge above the couch (I wasn’t even a fan, it was just the gayest thing I could find to put a stamp on the place), the potted plants Jo had bought that were almost dead.

Finally, after nosing around my home, she said, “It was nice of Janette to let you stay here.”

Taken aback, and not liking her tone at all, I glared at her until she spun around to look at me. “How did you know about that?”

“Janette and I have been friends for years. We talk,” she said nonchalantly.

The thought that they were talking about me behind my back irked me. The charity case, the piece of ass they were all passing around, that was what they must have been saying.

“Maybe you should find something better to talk about than me,” I snapped at her.

“We talk about most things, and you just happened to come up in conversation. That’s all.”

I rolled my eyes. She would never know it was all an act, that I wanted to appear strong and resilient and unfazed by her presence. She could never know that she still mattered to me.

“Why did you call?”

She swallowed, looked a little uneasy. “I wanted to see you.

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