Pretty in Peep-Toes by Cate Lawley

Author:Cate Lawley [Lawley, Cate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798640494372
Google: Kvd4zQEACAAJ
Amazon: B087L4R4M1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2020-04-25T22:00:00+00:00

20

Madeleine

Sam loved me?

Me?

Still?

Now?

Maybe once… What was I thinking? Even if he’d loved me back then, that was still…wow.

It was a lot to think about, just not something I could think about now.

Charlie had calmed down enough for me to run her a bath, which is where she was now. Before she’d settled in for a soak, I’d convinced her that I desperately needed her company for the night.

Naturally, she saw right through me, but she pretended not to and was planning to crash in my guest bedroom.

Tomorrow morning I’d convince her to stay a little bit longer. Something along the lines of needing her help with the shop while I worked on my current case.

I had employees, but they weren’t her. Pleasant as they were, they weren’t good friends or even FGs. So it wasn’t even a fib telling her that I needed her, only a mild stretching of the truth since I so desperately wanted her company.

Now that I knew she wasn’t working and that perhaps she needed to be here as much as I wanted her here, there was no reason not to use a little emotional blackmail to convince her to extend her stay.

And I needed to get her to share what had happened with her and Miles. It was eating her up, but every time I asked, she refused to say a word. I got the impression she was embarrassed. Or maybe even ashamed.

Which was crazy. Charlie was a wild child. She did her own thing. She wasn’t the type to be ashamed unless she’d done something mean or unkind. Which was also crazy, because she had a huge heart.

Charlie might forget your birthday, be late for an appointment or twenty, and be terrible at saying the words “I love you” or “You’re my best friend in the whole world,” but she came through when it counted.

Take this crazy notion she’d gotten in her head to match up Sam and me. It wasn’t just a convenient distraction.

Yes, she needed a project to take her mind off her troubles, but why not starting a girl band? (She’d been in one in the eighties.) Or design a quilt that would make Midwestern grandmas cry tears of joy? (That had absolutely happened. I swear.) Or pick up any one of her previous hobbies or projects? (There were so many. The woman excelled at everything.)

Because in her moment of deepest sorrow, when she’d lost the man she thought she’d grow old with, she wanted to make her two best friends happy. That was Charlie.

Which was why I was going to help her any way I could.

After I spent the entire night not sleeping, because…

Sam might love me.

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