Real Love by Rachel Lindsay

Author:Rachel Lindsay [Lindsay, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2023-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

14

I’m going to kill Ella.

You know I’m not going to share my sources.

The conniving little sneak.

It just really sucks that I’m going to have to murder her just as I was beginning to enjoy her company.

I’m not sure if the floors creak or if I gasp, but three sets of eyes spin to face me at the same time. Ella looks amused, Ruby looks thrilled, and Kai…well, I can’t look at Kai for long enough to decipher the soft look in his eyes or the crooked smile tugging at his lips.

Just seeing him again causes my body to react. My lips begin to tingle and it’s as if every single piece of me is begging for more.

Freaking Ella.

“Did you find anything you liked upstairs?” Ruby asks, the sweet, unsuspecting woman having no idea that tensions are rapidly rising inside the gallery.

“It was all beautiful.” I tell her the truth and her eyes light up. Part of me wants to skip back up those stairs, fall into my bohemian fantasy, and buy every single piece that makes my heart sing. And not just to escape from being around Ella and Kai either. “It just wasn’t really for me.”

I soften my voice as I tell this lie and I don’t know if I’m saying it for her or for me.

Ever since Ella got here, I’ve been lying all the damn time. Whether it’s a lie of omission or just straight-out false, I haven’t felt any real guilt over it. But for some reason, this feels different. This feels like I’m intentionally shutting down a part of me that I just discovered has been yearning to be freed. This feels like I’m betraying myself more than anyone else.

“That’s too bad.” She sounds as sad as I do before her entire face brightens as she remembers something. “Oh! And the artist for the glass pie you loved is back, but I think you already knew that.”

She winks at me, and on anyone else it would’ve looked totally dorky, but with her pink hair and nose ring, it was supremely cool. And also mortifying, because now I know without a doubt that Ella said something embarrassing before I came back.

I try to give her my best smile as a response, but I’m about 99 percent sure it just looks like a grimace.

“Kai.” I nod my head and try to beat back the traitorous fucking butterflies that infiltrate my stomach when I mention his name. My palms itch to touch his hair that looks like it’s grown since I last saw him. “Nice to see you again.”

“It’s been too long,” he says, and I couldn’t agree more. “I’ve been harassing Ella to give me your number, but she refused. Said it broke sister code and that I’d have to get you to give it to me yourself.”

Ella sticks out her tongue at me like this somehow negates the fact that she drove me two hours away from home to ambush me with his presence.

“It’s nice to hear that she at least has some boundaries.

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