The Last Single Girl by Caitie Quinn

Author:Caitie Quinn [Quinn, Caitie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: QPub Books
Published: 2012-12-19T05:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

DATING TRUTH #4: There's always another fish in the sea… it's just that we keep dumping toxic waste in the water so who knows what you'll catch next.

I STOOD WHERE I WAS, too scared to move as John rang Hank up, charging him for all the broken items and my tea. The two women waited at the door, identical expressions of rage on their faces.

The irrational part of me was annoyed yet another date had been a failure. The irrational part also wanted an apology for the assault.

The rational side just wanted them out of there as quickly as possible.

Once they left, John scanned the room, his gaze hard.

"You." He pointed at me. "Sit over there and don't move."

I headed toward the far side of the room where he'd assigned me and collapsed into a chair, just glad to have something under me.

"You." He pointed at the teen audience member who had enjoyed every second of my torture. "Clean that up and then you and I are going to talk."

Abby grumbled as she grabbed a broom and dustpan. I slumped over the table, setting my head on my crossed arms and hoping John would go have that word with Abby first.

Instead, a light touch brushed my shoulder, pushing my hair to the side and letting the light into my little self-made cave.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes." I mumbled, barely able to hear myself.

"Sarah, look at me." He squatted next to me leaving no option but for me to meet his gaze. "Are. You. Okay?"

I nodded, realizing I was more embarrassed than anything—and guilty. I felt so guilty about John's lovely coffee shop getting torn up like that.

"John, I'm so sorry about all the craziness. I had no idea."

"Of course you didn't. You're not the type of girl who goes out with married men."

Well, at least someone realized that.

"And your poor tea tray. I can't believe she broke your stuff."

"Don't worry about that. I bought everything in bulk. I have at least two boxes of stuff in the basement I haven't even opened."

"But you charged them for it…"

"Of course I did. I wasn't going to let them off the hook. You can't reinforce crazy behavior with dismissive attitudes."

That made sense, in a weird John kind of way.

"I think maybe I'll start doing my meet-ups somewhere else."

Because I didn't like the idea of putting John out like this again. And also because I couldn't stand the thought of him seeing me in yet another humiliating situation. He was seeing me at my lowest, over and over again, and then once more.

"Absolutely not. You'll meet the rest of those guys here. I don't want you out of my sight until we know you're not meeting up with some crazy person. This could have been far worse. That guy was just a jerk and his wife was just ticked off. What if they really were nuts?" He stood and shook his head. "No. You'll meet them here."

I could all but hear the Where I can keep an eye on you he didn't say.

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