Starting Over by Bohrman Barbie

Author:Bohrman, Barbie [Bohrman, Barbie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781503952065
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2016-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

A quick knock on my bedroom door wakes me from a very deep sleep. Then the door swings open and Josie comes running in. She practically jumps into my bed and burrows underneath my covers.

With her head on the opposite pillow, her excited little face is the very first thing I see once my eyes come into focus.

“Good morning, kid,” I say to her and rub my eyes.

“How was it? Was he romantic like in the movies and sweep you off of your feet?” she asks in a rush.

“He was . . .”

“Did he treat you well?” she asks so suddenly and earnestly that I’m taken aback by her question.

“Why do you ask that?”

“Uncle Alex always says to me that any boy that asks me for a date—” She stops and then adds, “Relax, Mom, when I’m older, of course. Anyway, that any boy that asks me out must treat me well, be very respectful of me, be a very good listener, and that I should never sell myself short. And that any boy who doesn’t do any of those things, I should kick him to the curb.”

“Well, I think that Uncle Alex would probably want to kill this boy even if he did all those things. The poor imaginary little guy,” I add as an afterthought.

We both laugh but it’s true. I feel so sorry for any boy in Josie’s future who will dare to ask her out. Because, having been the victim of a broken heart by her father and other boys before him, I’m fully aware of what they are like and capable of. Add to that her uncle’s protective streak that borders on psycho, and he’s in for a hard time regardless of if he was the sweetest, most perfectly behaved boy to her.

“To answer your question—”

“Questions,” Josie says, correcting me.

“Right, right, sorry. Well, to answer your questions, yes, he treated me well, and I guess it was romantic.”

“Did you kiss him?”

“Josie! That’s kind of personal, don’t you think?”

“Mom,” she says with a lift of her eyebrow. “Give me a break, you either kissed him or you didn’t. Which is it?”

I roll over and stretch my arms over my head. Josie comes closer and brings her face right up to mine where I’m trying to keep the coy smile from breaking across my face.

“Aha! You totally kissed him!”

“A lady doesn’t kiss and tell, remember that sound piece of advice, by the way,” I say to her and get out of bed. “So what do you want to do today? And please do not say the mall, because I’ve had my fill of the mall yesterday to last me a lifetime.”

Moving around my room, I grab my robe off the back of my closet door absentmindedly and put it on. Noticing that Josie isn’t saying a word, I turn around to find her still on my bed and deep in thought.

“Sweetie, what’s wrong?”

“What happens if it doesn’t work out? Or what happens if it does and

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