The First Time We Met: An utterly heart-warming and unforgettable love story by Jo Lovett

Author:Jo Lovett [Lovett, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookouture

Nineteen

Sam

It had been a strategic error asking Ruby what juice she’d like. Sam had ended up walking to the kitchen with Ruby and leaving Izzy with Liv. This was not panning out how he’d planned.

Sam wasn’t a nervous person but he’d been almost pacing the apartment in anticipation of Izzy and Ruby’s arrival. Izzy had said that Emma wouldn’t be joining them after all. Sam was pleased. While he would have liked to have met Izzy’s best friend, he was hoping for the opportunity to talk more to Izzy alone.

When Izzy and Ruby had been due to arrive, Barney was in his room, not surprising, while Liv was flitting around the apartment, adjusting photos, cushions, flowers towards ever greater heights of perfection. Mrs H kept the place immaculate, but apparently that wasn’t good enough for Liv today, which was odd, because Sam would have sworn from her behaviour at the weekend and a couple things she’d said during the week that she had no desire whatsoever to impress Izzy – quite the reverse. Something had happened on Sunday afternoon to change Liv’s view of Izzy, and Sam couldn’t work out what that was.

Maybe, given how anxious she seemed for everything to be just right, she’d mellowed. Or, if not, maybe today she’d realise how great Izzy actually was. Although, really, it was irrelevant. Your kids didn’t have to like your friends, although it would be nice if they did. And realistically they might never see her again. He didn’t take them to London that often and this sounded like a once-in-a-decade trip for Izzy, plus the twins were getting older and within a few years would be more independent. He and Izzy could meet up in future without the kids.

Sam had returned to the kitchen after checking on the kids, and re-checked the table. Yep. All good. He’d looked at his watch. Ten minutes late. Only polite – no-one ever liked when someone arrived exactly on time for a dinner party, formal or informal – but he couldn’t help worrying that for some reason she wouldn’t turn up.

He’d checked the bolognese again. Had he definitely added the oregano? Yes, he was sure he had.

And the doorbell had gone.

Liv had got there before him. Had she run there to beat him to it?

By the time Sam made it into the lobby, Liv had accepted wine and chocolates from Izzy with no audible thank you, and was ushering Izzy and Ruby inside, pointing out that they were late. Was she saying it on purpose? She was smiling like an angel, but she had to know how unfriendly it sounded.

Sam rushed to thank Izzy for the gift and to say that they’d arrived at the perfect time. And he’d over-compensated and probably made it sound as though he too thought they were late. Izzy was wearing a bright green skirt and a purple top, which looked great against her reddy-gold curls. In fact, she looked amazing. He leaned down and kissed her cheek. She smelled amazing too.

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