West Coast Soulmates (A Rockstar Romance Collection) by Carla Krae

Author:Carla Krae
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: first love, holiday romance, christmas romance, music romance, forever love, rockstar romance, rock star romance, second chance romance, rockstar romance set
Publisher: Willowick Publishing

Chapter Eleven

“You look better.” Patrick was stirring something on the stove.

“I feel better. Thank you. Ros asked me to drop by today, so I don’t know how long I’ll be out.”

“Ah.” He put a bowl on the breakfast bar.

“What’s that?”

“Oatmeal. Easy on your stomach.”

“Seriously?”

“Try it, Jess.”

Sighing, I did, and okay…whatever he’d seasoned it with made it not half-bad. My stomach gurgled, but I didn’t get nauseous. “Thanks.”

A satisfied smile. “You’re welcome. Keep that down, and if you’re still hungry, you can have something else.”

“Okay.”

“Rosalind texted me a thank you for coming.”

“See? You did the right thing.”

He rolled his eyes. “Let it go, Jess.”

The oatmeal sat okay, so he made me scrambled eggs and hash browns next.

“You could come with me.”

He waved it off. “Go have girl time.”

Turns out, this was the last day I’d see Ros. She had to fly for business tomorrow and a moving company would be packing and shipping her stuff this week.

This was goodbye.

I came home with a puffy face. My normally not-touchy-feely roommate took one look at me and hugged me.

I sighed into his t-shirt. “This would really suck without you here.”

“Was it this bad when you parted for college?”

I looked up at him. “No. We made all kinds of promises about keeping in touch and seeing each other at holidays and we believed it. This time, we know things are gonna change.”

Standing in the circle of his arms felt like the perfect place to be, even though he was a foot taller than me.

He wiped away a tear I hadn’t felt on my cheekbone. “I’m sorry you’re in pain.”

“Like I said, having you here helps.”

He smiled at me. A second or two of staring into each other’s eyes, then he pulled away.

Moment broken.

“I was going to run by the grocery store tonight,” he said.

“Okay.”

“You can come if you want.”

“You just don’t want to carry everything on a bicycle.”

“I’m caught. I’ve been using you for your car,” he deadpanned.

The snorting laugh that brought out wasn’t very ladylike. It still surprised me when he made jokes. He was such the straight-man all the time.

“Okay, let’s go.”

When you’re with someone that likes to cook, you learn new things, like it’s apparently a necessity to go to more than one grocery store. This one had the best prices on shelf staples, that one had the best produce, another had the best butcher. How he’d even discovered all this, I can’t tell you. It mystified me, but I went along, shuttling him everywhere he wanted to go and arguing over the bills.

He’d just been paid on the fifteenth. I insisted on buying the stuff specifically for me.

Most important thing—it got my mind off Ros for a couple hours.

Once we were home, he put a frozen meal in the oven and we turned on a movie. I took advantage of my perceived need for comfort and leaned on his shoulder. Would’ve been really nice to hold hands, but that wasn’t us.

After dinner—Stouffer’s lasagna was quite tasty—I got ready for bed.

Before turning in, I chanced a quick peck on his cheek.

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