THE HUSBAND HUNTERS by LAING LUCY

Author:LAING, LUCY [LAING, LUCY]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-12-22T16:00:00+00:00

I didn’t know how to tell the other girls, but Rach and I decided that we needed to tell them, to try and work out what to do. The following evening, Kaz and Tash arrived at my flat. Rach had rung them to ask them to come over, but she hadn’t told them what it was about.

‘I can’t believe it,’ gasped Tash, when we told them about Soph. ‘Are you sure it was her?’

‘Absolutely positive,’ I said. ‘She was snogging the face off him on his doorstep.’

‘She needs to get round here now,’ said Kaz. ‘We need to tackle her about it. This has to be sorted out.’

Kaz rang Soph’s mobile. ‘She’s coming round now,’ she said grimly. ‘I told her that you needed your red dress back that she borrowed, and she’s coming round to drop it off.’

Ten minutes later the doorbell rang. My stomach started to churn at the thought of facing Soph. She came bounding up the stairs swinging a bag.

‘Here’s the dress Bee,’ she said, putting the bag on my sofa. She looked around at all our faces. ‘What's up?’ she said, ‘you all look worried.’

I didn’t know what to say, so Tash took charge.

‘We know about you and Paul,’ she said, bluntly. The colour drained from Soph’s face. She went completely white and she sat down with a bump on the arm of my sofa.

‘How did you find out?’ she asked quietly.

‘Bee and Rach saw you go into Paul’s house last night,’ said Kaz.

‘I thought you weren’t going to be stalking him until later on this week,’ protested Soph.

‘Hang on a minute. That’s not the point,’ said Tash, interrupting. ‘What’s going on with you and Paul?’

‘I met him at the school reunion, and we hit it off,’ admitted Soph. ‘I didn’t want to tell any of you because of him standing Bee up.’ I winced at that one. How could Paul not have preferred Soph to me, with her porcelain features, silky hair, and young twenty-something body. I wanted to curl up and die with the embarrassment and shame of it all. How Paul must be laughing at me.

‘I’m really sorry Bee,’ she said, looking at me beseechingly. ‘But I like him, and he likes me too. I think he could be The One.’

I felt a sharp pain, like a knife was being driven through my heart. Paul was meant to be my The One, not Soph’s. Surely this couldn’t be happening to me.

‘None of us can quite believe what you’ve done to Bee,’ said Tash, accusingly. ‘We are meant to be helping find each other husbands, not stealing them from one another.’

Soph’s lip started to tremble, and her eyes filled with tears.

‘I’m so sorry,’ she said, and she stood up and stumbled out the room. A few seconds later we heard my front door bang.

‘Well good riddance,’ said Rach, hotly. ‘We can’t have traitors like that in our midst.’ Tash and Kaz nodded, and I was too numb to speak.

‘Get her a stiff drink,’ ordered Kaz, looking at me.

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