Texting My Moms Ex: An Age Gap, Curvy Girl Romance by Flora Ferrari

Author:Flora Ferrari [Ferrari, Flora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Zoey

Is this the definition of a new low? I’m sitting on the toilet seat, the cold material pressing through my jeans. There was so much warmth before I saw Lola walk across the restaurant with the confidence I know so well—the confidence that turns me invisible.

Explain what? Jax replies. And you’re not pathetic. I’d never say that. I’d never think it.

The waitress went to my high school. Her name’s Lola. She was the Queen Bee, the girl everybody chased. Football players, nerds, everybody in between… They all wanted her. When I saw her walking over, it was like I was back there. The invisible girl again. The girl who doesn’t matter. I just thought, well, here we go. Jax will see somebody prettier and more traditionally attractive and realize how foolish he’s being for choosing me.

I don’t care what she was in high school or what YOU were in high school. All I care about is who WE are now. I’m telling the truth. I don’t want anything to do with that woman or any woman who isn’t called Zoey Gray.

Or Mallory Gray, I mentally add. That’s the sharp blade hanging over every interaction, ready to execute our joy at any moment—the revelation he won’t share out of respect for Mom. What about respect for me?

She didn’t even recognize me, I reply. There’s no reason for her to. She was always above everybody, but it stings in a strange way. It’s like I’m so insignificant she can’t even remember me.

To me, you’re the most significant woman alive.

We both saw her flirting with you.

Trying to flirt, he replies, but I’d never flirt with another woman. There’s only you, Zoey. Don’t make me cause a scene in this nice restaurant.

What sort of scene?

Like kicking the door to the lady’s bathroom down and kissing you hard and passionately so you know nobody else compares. Come back out here.

I can’t hide in the stall all night. I’m starting to feel silly. The panic I felt upon first seeing her is beginning to diffuse. When I leave the bathroom, Jax is waiting for me in the narrow hallway. There’s nobody else around, just us, but it’s still a risk when he pulls me into his arms and guides his lips to mine. Just because Lola didn’t recognize me right away, it doesn’t mean she won’t.

I forget about all the sneaking, the lies, the complications when he kisses me. He groans, unable to mask his pleasure, and I moan in response. We only stop when somebody walks around the corner to the hallway. Luckily, it’s not Lola. Jax grins down at me. It’s like we’re sharing a secret.

Like? No, we are sharing one.

“Come on. Let’s enjoy our meal.”

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