The Steeles at Silver Island 05 - Wild Island Love - Leni Steele by Melissa Foster

Author:Melissa Foster [Foster, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781960128133
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Publisher: World Literary Press
Published: 2023-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

LENI TYPED THREE more bullet points on the marketing plan for Alyssa Braden and glanced at her cell phone for the millionth time. It was Sunday afternoon, and Raz had been texting her pictures all day of his outing with his parents. Instead of focusing on the work she wanted to accomplish, she found herself anxiously awaiting his next text.

Irritated with herself, she turned the phone over and stared at the document on her laptop, struggling to concentrate. She glanced at her phone again, knowing she needed to stop this foolishness, but she was drawn to the stupid phone like a fish to water.

The heck with it. Just one more peek. Then it would be out of her system.

She picked up her phone and sat back, scrolling through the pictures again, taking in Raz’s and his parents’ smiling faces as they stood under the Washington Square Arch, in front of Hangman’s Elm, the longest-living tree in New York City, and outside the restaurant where they’d had lunch. There were photos of them standing beneath the Bleeker Street sign, in the middle of MacDougal Street, and a dozen others. In every single one, Raz was holding what looked like a Popsicle stick with a big picture of Leni’s smiling face attached to it. In several pictures, his parents pointed to her image with gleeful grins, and in others, Raz or one of his parents had their arm around Leni’s invisible body, as if she were there with them.

She wished she were.

What was happening to her? She didn’t recognize this girl who was wishing she was traipsing around Greenwich Village instead of working, and she didn’t like it one bit.

This is ridiculous. She needed to restart her brain. Maybe a spin class would do the trick. She pushed to her feet and stalked into her bedroom to change her clothes.

On her way out of her building, her phone chimed several times. She dug it out of her bag, hoping for more pictures and annoyed at herself for it. She deflated at the sight of a family group text. Jules had sent several of the pictures that had been splashed all over social media of Leni and Raz holding hands on their way out of the restaurant with his parents last night with the accompanying headlines: Raz’s parents meet his new love. Is there a wedding on the horizon?

Jules: Sissy is in LOVE! Time to plan another wedding! Three celebration emojis popped up.

Archer: He’d better put a ring on her finger.

Jules sent a video of Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).”

Jock: Don’t push her to marry a guy the rest of us haven’t even met.

Indi: Don’t worry. I’m revoking Archer’s texting privileges.

Archer: Even the dirty ones, babe? He added a devil emoji.

Indi: Um…no…those can stay. A blushing emoji popped up.

Grant: Please remove me from this group text.

Sutton sent three laughing emojis.

Levi: I don’t believe Leni is in love, and yes, please revoke Archer’s texting privileges.

Indi sent a laughing emoji.

Tara: Is this real? Leni is getting married? I’m on a photo assignment and haven’t looked at social.

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