Virginal Valentine by Barbra Campbell

Author:Barbra Campbell [Campbell, Barbra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Romantic Escapes Publishing
Published: 2020-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Missy

Thankfully the rest of my shift was busy and I avoided any further conflict before heading home.

I reread the text messages from Ty asking if I was okay, what had upset me, was there anything he could do to help, what time should he come over…

No point gracing any of them with an answer except the last question. He shouldn’t come over.

Me: No date tonight.

Would he shack up with Jessi instead? Would they get a laugh out of me freaking out over the picture?

The picture… I hadn’t been able to bring myself to delete it. I’d opened it twice already since getting home. Oh no, what if the sender could tell how many times I viewed it. Was it in some kind of trackable message? No, I was paranoid. I hoped. And now the picture was foremost on my mind again.

I turned my phone on and reached my finger to my Messages app. My mouth watered and my panties were decidedly wetter. I was a sinner. Simple as that. I’d ruined my life.

No, there was no reason to believe I could be ruined by one mistake. I was shy, but I was strong too. I closed my phone.

Distraction was necessary.

From the comfort of my couch, a blanket draped over my shoulders, I leaned over the coffee table and dealt a hand of regular solitaire. What made that version take over as the main one? No one even called it Klondike or Classic anymore.

It wasn’t my favorite, but trying to bring chaos into order appealed to me. All of the uncertainty, the cards in my hand, the ones under the top card in each stack, and whether I should choose this one or that one… I may not be able to sort it out in my life, but at least I could gather the cards and re-deal when I lost at a game.

I flipped three cards at a time, my usual preference, but with all of the unknowns I considered opting for the version that allowed a single card to be flipped. One at a time felt like cheating. I stuck with three.

I’d heard the term ‘ghosting’ someone, and quite frankly it was genius. Unfortunately, I hadn’t thought it through fully. Sure, not responding offered some kind of power or liberty or something, but it didn’t stop the messages from coming in.

Ty could text and call as many times as he wanted because there was no corollary for ghosting to dictate the other person would hit a magical limit and stop sending things to you.

Thankfully, after his initial texts he dropped off.

I flipped the last set of three cards from my hand, no plays. Unbelievable, not a single play the whole game. A rare event. I scanned my stacks, then went through the cards in my hand again. Not a single card played, a complete loss.

Lifting the top card from each stack, I added them to the cards in my hand then scooped up all of the untouched cards that remained face down.

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