Pupcakes by Annie England Noblin

Author:Annie England Noblin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

IT WAS FRIDAY NIGHT, AND BRYDIE WAS NERVOUS. SHE DIDN’T know what to wear, she didn’t know where they were going, and right that second, she didn’t know if she wanted to get dressed or crawl back into bed for the next fifteen years.

She wanted to call Elliott and ask her to come over, but Elliott was at a dinner with some of Leo’s clients.

Brydie was on her own.

Staring at her closet, she had no idea what to wear. Hanging out at Nathan’s house or at the dog park was one thing. Going out for an actual dinner at a restaurant was another. Picking out clothes had never been her strong point. She’d wear jeans and a baggy T-shirt every day if she thought she could get away with it. She’d tried to be a fashionista like her mother or Elliott, but creating outfits just wasn’t something that clicked with her brain. She was much more like her father in that way, in every way, really, and she found herself missing him. He couldn’t have given her fashion advice, but he would have said something hilarious and insightful to put her at ease. That was what she missed the most—just talking to him.

Brydie thought about the tender way Nathan had held her hand at the park, and she felt her heart skip a beat. Talking to him had become something she looked forward to almost as much as seeing him. Tonight, however, she didn’t want to spend all of her time regaling him with stories about her past. Tonight, she wanted everything to be about the present.

She pulled out a red strappy dress from the closet. It was something her mother had bought her just after her divorce, when Ruth Benson was still enticing her daughter to move on from Allan and enjoy her life. Brydie had shoved it to the back of her closet and forgotten about it.

It was a little too chilly to wear it alone, but with a pair of boots and a jacket, she thought, maybe it could look cute. She wiggled into the dress and pulled from the closet a pair of black boots that came up just past her knees and a gauzy black cardigan. When she went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror, Brydie was surprised at how good she looked. Her hair was glossy and fell perfectly around her face. Her skin, which sometimes felt greasy and uneven after spending so much time in a kitchen, seemed to glow. She looked like she was ready for a night out in a big city with a sexy doctor.

Teddy, however, looked like he was ready for a night of sleeping at the foot of Brydie’s bed. “Sorry, buddy,” she said, slipping the harness over him. “But you’re going to have to snore and fart in someone else’s house tonight.”

AN HOUR LATER, Brydie found herself sitting on Nathan’s couch with Myriah, the dog sitter, waiting for him to come home.

“He said he wouldn’t be more than twenty minutes late,” Myriah said, giving Brydie a sympathetic smile.

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