The Road to Something Better by Renee Vincent

Author:Renee Vincent
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: beach read, series romance, coffee shop, sweet contemporary romance, romantic comedy
Publisher: Renee Vincent
Published: 2014-04-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

THE NEXT DAY BEGAN with me hitting SNOOZE too many times on the alarm clock, which made for a very hectic morning. I wasn’t late for work, but I wasn’t my usual perky, perceptive self. I had thrown my hair up into a chaotic bun and somehow wore two different colored shoes. To my defense, they were exactly the same brand and style, but one was navy and the other black.

Of course, Melissa noticed right away. But she assured me no one else would. Personally, I think she was just placating me, so I’d forget all about the fashion faux pas and get on with the real reason I’d lost my head when dressing.

Like the good friend I was, I told her every little detail. From the cupcake fight to the goodnight kiss after the movie, I divulged my entire evening with Joseph in between customer orders, all the while keeping a sharp ear on the door chimes. I refused to have another episode of Joseph walking in and eavesdropping on my conversation.

“I am so green with envy, Jamie,” Melissa said, fanning her face. “What I wouldn’t give to have a neighbor like Joseph take interest in me. Oh, my gosh, can the man get any yummier?”

I thought about her choice of words: a neighbor like Joseph taking interest in me. It was hard to believe that a man as suave and sexy as Joseph could be the slightest interested in a gal like me. I wasn’t anything special. I didn’t have a lot to offer him except for a splendid cup of coffee and some of my grandmother’s special recipes. While it might appeal to him now, I feared eventually it wouldn’t be enough to keep him.

Keep him...

I suddenly realized I was doing exactly what I swore I would never do again—leave my heart unguarded for a guy who was destined to break it.

I recalled our conversation over coffee the other morning when he confided that he wasn’t able to fall in love. If the beautiful, successful Caroline couldn’t get this man to fall, what made me think I could?

I squeezed my eyes shut and turned from the over-worked espresso machine. I needed to clear my head. In private.

“You got this?” I asked Melissa.

I could sense her concern, but she didn’t push the issue.

“Sure. No problem.”

“I’ll be in my office.” I wiped my hands on my apron and opened the door to escape. Images of Joseph sitting casually on the corner of my desk the other day invaded my thoughts. No matter where I looked, he was there. The espresso machine he fixed. The doorway he always used as a leaning post. Even the stupid jingle of the door chimes had me salivating like Pavlov’s dog in the hopes it might be Joseph. But I didn’t want to see him at every turn. I wanted a reprieve. I wanted things the way they were before, when I wasn’t so caught up in him. When I wasn’t thinking of him every minute of the day.

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