Someone Like You by Lauren Layne

Author:Lauren Layne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

By Saturday night, Daisy was a little surprised by how quickly the week had gone. And a little sad that Lincoln’s stay in Charlotte was almost half over.

They’d developed a nice routine, the two of them. Comfortable, without ever being boring. Despite the fact that he had his own coffeepot in the guesthouse, he made his way over to the main house every morning after Kiwi did her morning business.

Together they’d have coffee—heavy on the cream and sugar for both of them—and she’d relish the chance to have someone to compliment her admittedly impressive omelet skills.

Later they’d go to her gym, where she’d gotten him a guest pass for his stay, and they’d work out for an hour before coming home and showering.

After that, Lincoln settled into the makeshift workstation he’d set up on the kitchen counter in the guesthouse, and Daisy did her usual. Putzed around the house, ran errands, grabbed the occasional coffee with Whitney. She’d brought him lunch twice, but mostly she gave him space during the day, not wanting him to think she was a little woman with nothing better to do than make roast chicken clubs for a man.

Except…she didn’t have anything better to do, and the realization was horrifying.

Daisy had never been quite so aware of how bored she’d become with her life as when she’d find Lincoln absorbed in his writing, or talking on the phone, or even throwing a ball for Kiwi, who chased it about 2 percent of the time.

Daisy didn’t have a dog. Didn’t have kids. Didn’t have a job. Didn’t even have anyone she could call, really, outside of Emma and Whitney.

In the year since her divorce became final, she’d spent so much energy relishing being alone, being sans Gary, that she hadn’t seen the lonely boredom lurking just around the corner. Hadn’t realized that when she finally started to feel safe again, aimlessness would be lurking.

The day Daisy realized she’d married a monster had been the low point of her life.

But this—the realization that she had no purpose—was a close second.

Which is why she was dressed up in a red cocktail dress, sitting at the swanky bar of a Charlotte steakhouse beside one Lincoln Mathis.

He was wearing a suit today, and though she thought her libido had recovered from the whole T-shirt/jeans thing from Walmart, she had to admit that this was a setback in her lust-for-Lincoln illness.

It was time to acknowledge that the man could wear a clown suit and still look delicious. There was no tie tonight, just a dark charcoal suit over a lighter gray shirt, open at the throat to show a rather perfect Adam’s apple.

Oh dear.

You knew it was bad when you started lusting after a guy’s Adam’s apple.

Still, she was glad she’d let him talk her into this. He’d gone out every night by himself the past week, and though they hadn’t talked details, he’d obviously had plenty of material to work with, seeing as he spent all day writing.

She couldn’t help but wonder if any of his “research” had involved the naked variety.

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