Rock Chick Rematch: A Rock Chick Novella by Kristen Ashley

Author:Kristen Ashley [Ashley, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Kristen Ashley, 1001 Dark Nights, Rock Chick, contemporary romance
Publisher: 1001 Dark Nights Press
Published: 2024-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

What If

I had to wait until Liam was back at his dad’s to hold the meeting.

I sensed it wasn’t going to go well when my sister strutted in, eyes on me, asking, “So, you’re talking to me again?”

But it was Toni, who was stretched out on my couch with a martini in her hand, who answered.

“She might be, but I’m not. Everyone knows, it’s sisters before misters.”

“Spend two seconds with that man when he’s with his son and get back to me,” she retorted.

Toni rolled her eyes and sipped her drink, after which she mumbled, “Whatever.”

“Not whatever. I did the right thing!” Lena cried.

I cut in. “We’re not here to talk about that.”

“So I’m not here to hear your apology?” Lena asked me. “Then I’m out.”

“Lena, please sit down,” I requested.

“I lied to you, babe, but you also lied to me,” she declared.

“Yes, I did. I had my reasons. You had your reasons. I forgive you. If you forgive me, we can move past this and you can help me figure out how to win Darius back.”

Lena’s eyes went huge.

Toni took her legs from the couch and sat up. Such was her haste in doing this, she sloshed martini on her blouse. And such was her absorption in what I just said, she didn’t go for one of the cute cocktail napkins I’d laid out to dab at the wet.

“Say what?” Toni asked.

“Pour me a martini.” Lena was snapping at Toni. “I gotta catch up.”

Toni’s chin went into her neck. “When did I become your bartender?”

“The pitcher is right there.” Lena pointed to the glass martini pitcher that was resting in a bucket of ice and the empty glass I’d set out for Lena with two fat olives on the silver toothpick with its kick-butt swirly end already set into it. All of this was sitting on the coffee table right in front of Toni.

Yes.

Seriously.

Darius had set me and Liam up.

I had fancy silver toothpicks for my drinks.

And a sophisticated martini pitcher and ice bucket.

And no, I hadn’t blinked before buying either of them.

“Holy hell, I’ll pour your damned drink,” I muttered, moving to do that.

Lena sunk into an armchair and accepted the glass I poured with a loaded, “Thank you,” and a side eye to Toni.

“Please, you two, let’s get along while I use you to hash all of this out,” I begged.

“You’re going to try to get him back?” Toni asked.

“That’ll take two seconds,” Lena said into her drink before taking a sip.

“I don’t think you’re right,” I told Lena as I sunk into my own armchair.

“Girl, he’s crazy for you,” Lena told me.

“I had occasion to be in his presence just a few days ago, and he ordered me out of his truck when I tried to talk to him.”

Lena and her false eyelashes blinked rapidly.

I needed to get an appointment for those semi-permanent falsies. They looked great. Mine were always detaching mid-day so I either had to rip them off or do a re-glue over the basin in the employee bathroom.

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