The Curvy Girls Club by Michele Gorman

Author:Michele Gorman [Michele Gorman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

I nearly fell off my chair a week later when Alex’s email pinged into my box. The two little words I’d waited six years to hear. ‘Drinks tonight?’ I went straight to Ellie but she was on the phone. It took all my restraint not to disconnect her call.

‘Lunch,’ I mouthed while she said her good-byes.

Of course Ellie knew about my Alex-infatuation. I’d been a smitten fool for as long as she’d known me. What she didn’t know anything about was my date with Rob.

She wriggled as I told her about the email, and our recent more-flirty-than-usual conversations.

‘I can’t believe it!’ she squealed. ‘And you look so pretty today too. Just think – that’ll be your first-date outfit.’

I examined my royal blue empire waist dress, which definitely flattered my figure. It had been years since I’d been able to say that. Incurable disease or not, I had a waist.

‘You’re jumping ahead, Ellie. It’s not a date. He offered to take me for drinks to say thanks for some work I’ve done for him. It might be nothing.’

‘Are you trying to convince me, or you?’

I grinned. ‘Me. You know what I’m like when I get nervous. I’ll make a complete tit of myself if I get overexcited.’ She nodded, no doubt thinking about her cousin. She’d been very sweet to set me up with him after we met at her dad’s birthday party. It wasn’t her fault that he mistook the purpose of our meeting. I should have read the signals when he formally shook my hand at the bar. Instead I deluded myself that since Ellie had a bit of German on one side, he was just respecting his culture. I also should have noted that he asked a lot of questions about my job. It began to sound like an interview and any normal person would have put two and two together. But not me. I ploughed on, flirting, answering his questions with double-entendres, inching closer on the sofa we shared in the busy bar. When he said he thought there was something he could do for me, and I answered … ugh, I still shudder. I growled that I just bet there was. It honestly never occurred to me that as a recruitment consultant he was only there to offer me career advice. Ellie had to tell him I was on pain medication that day.

‘There is one thing,’ I said as Ellie ate her superfood salad. It was best to just come straight out with it, right? ‘Rob.’

‘Rob?’

I nodded. ‘We’ve been on a few dates. Well, one, technically. We snogged. A lot. It’s nothing serious, but it does …’

… It does what? Exactly what had Rob’s kisses meant? I’d be damned if I knew. He’d been completely silent on the subject for two weeks, as if he’d come down with amnesia. I didn’t get it. We saw each other at the club events as usual, and my flirtation bordered on sexual harassment. I’d even bought some new clothes that, if I did say so myself, made the most of my emerging figure.

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