The Machine by Stephanie Julian
Author:Stephanie Julian [Julian, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-04T05:00:00+00:00
*****
“Deep breath, dork. You’re such an idiot.”
Faith checked her hair in the mirror one more time before turning away with a huff.
Jake would be here in a few minutes. She’d been ready for the past half hour and yet she was still fussing with her hair.
It wasn’t like she could do anything different with it. It wouldn’t hold a curl to save her soul, and only the fact that it had a few layers made it at all interesting. Same with her face. She wasn’t ugly but she didn’t turn heads like Bliss or Vivi. She was…cute.
Cursed with being cute.
Ugh. What the hell did Jake, the uber-hot hockey hotshot, see in her?
Yeah, yeah, Bliss would totally be up in her face if she heard Faith right now.
But Faith had no illusions about herself. She wasn’t outgoing, she wasn’t some gorgeous supermodel type. And no, she didn’t think she was hideously ugly.
She was just…average.
So of course, she couldn’t stop asking herself why he was interested in her.
When the doorbell rang, she had half a mind to ask him. Especially when she opened the door and found herself face-to-face with him.
That giddy, heart-squeezing, light-headed sensation swept through her body and she had the simultaneous urges to shut the door in his face and grab him by the front of his chest-hugging thermal shirt to drag him inside her apartment so she could push up against the wall and kiss him.
Then she’d pull him over to the couch, straddle his lap, and kiss him for hours on end.
Screw dinner. She could stand to lose a few pounds anyway. Wonder how many calories she could burn making out with him?
“Hi.”
“Hello.” He nodded, lips curving in that smile that made her heart beat faster. “May I come in?”
She nodded, then noticed the pizza boxes in his hand.
Waving him in, she closed the door behind him. “I didn’t realize we were eating in.”
“You have not looked out the window lately, have you?”
“No, why?”
Then she shook her head because she realized his shoulders were coated with a fine layer of quickly melting snow.
“Oh, wow. I didn’t realize it had gotten so bad. Why didn’t you call? We could’ve postponed to another night.”
Although she really, really wouldn’t have wanted to. And now that he was here, she couldn’t help feeling even more excited than she had earlier.
They were alone. Together. And the look in his eyes made her think he had had the same idea.
“I did not want to postpone. I wanted to see you tonight.”
Since it was the best thing he could have said, she smiled and waved him toward the table as she walked to the window.
Pulling aside the curtain, she huffed out a short gasp. “Oh my god. I had no idea how bad it’s getting. When I got home today, they were still only calling for a dusting. There must be a couple of inches at least.”
“Yes, and more on the way. It is supposed to continue all night.”
He spoke from directly over her shoulder, startling her into looking up.
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