Sugar and Spice: (a SportsCurvy Girl One-night-stand romance) (Le CRV Magazine Women of the Year Book 1) by Kat Baxter

Author:Kat Baxter [Baxter, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2021-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Isabel

I stare at the sleeping giant one more time, then sneak out the door. Yes, it’s my hotel room, but the magazine has it booked for another night. I just know that I need to leave. I’ve already talked to the Le CRV people and my obligations here have been met. The rest of my paid trip was just for my pleasure and entertainment.

But I can’t stay. If I stay, I’ll sleep with Sam again and then I’ll just want to keep doing that. He’s amazing and if I spend one more night in his arms I’ll catch feelings. And I can’t afford for that to happen.

I had my one shot at love and I screwed it up. So I slink home, like a coward, regrets swirling around me thicker than the New York traffic.

Matt died before I ever got the chance to tell him that I loved him. That’s on me. And now my fate is sealed because no one finds their soulmate twice in one lifetime.

The entire flight home I stare at the pictures from our sight-seeing day. I think I’m smiling until one fat tear drops onto my hand.

“Is that your fellow?” the elderly lady in the seat next to me asks.

I glance over at her. “No, not really. He’s great though.”

“That is a man in love.” She taps a weathered finger on my phone screen. “Do you see how he’s looking at you?”

This is one of the pictures from the top of the Empire State Building. Sam has his arm around me and he’s looking down at me, those eye crinkles of his showing and there’s definite affection in his gaze. But love? After only a weekend together? That seems…

I shake my head at my seat mate. “No, we only just met.”

“I know what I see.”

“That’s very kind of you to say, but we’re not meant to be. We live very different lives. And I already found my soulmate.”

The older lady’s eyebrows raise. “You are already married?”

I shake my head. “No. We’re not together either. He died in the war. But he was my one.”

“And you only get one of those, right?”

“Exactly. Thank you for understanding. What was your name?”

“Lois.”

“Nice to meet you, Lois. I’m Isabel. My sisters and brother never understand what I’m saying when it comes to soulmates. But they’ve found theirs, they already have their ones.”

She gives me a conciliatory smile and pats me on the hand. “Your siblings don’t understand your logic, because you’re wrong, my dear.”

I shift in my seat, frowning at the old woman. “I beg your pardon?”

She pats my arm. “Lots of people believe you only get one true love. I believed it myself when I was a young girl and I married my first husband, Frank. We were two peas in a pod. Planned to spend our golden years together. But as it turned out, I only got Frank for ten years before the cancer took him from me.”

She looks off, passed me clearly relieving her own memories.

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