With Love from the Inside by Angela Pisel

Author:Angela Pisel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-07-20T15:48:50+00:00

SOPHIE

Sophie’s head was in a fog when she woke up the next morning. Eva. Thomas. The party. Her mom. She didn’t know which situation to try to process first.

“You believe me about Eva, don’t you?” Thomas said as he came back into the bedroom from taking a shower.

“I don’t know what to believe.” Sophie pulled the comforter over her shoulders and tucked it under her chin. “I know what I saw.” She wanted him to say more or at least repeat the explanation he’d given her last night: “I only want to be with you.”

Thomas threw his towel on the floor and sat beside her on the bed. “Look at me.”

When she didn’t, he kneeled down in front of her. “I’ve never lied to you. What you saw at my office and heard at the party was all Eva. Eva being Eva. My mistake was asking her to help plan your party. I didn’t realize she’d read more into it than that.”

Sophie started to pull away, but the more she looked into Thomas’s eyes, the more she believed him. He hadn’t lied to her before. That was her thing, not his.

She studied the shape of his mouth when he talked, the curves in his brow. She scrutinized every feature as she would if she were studying a suspected perpetrator in a series of police photos. All while looking for any discrepancy in his story, anything to indicate he’d been unfaithful. “I’m trying to believe you’re telling me the truth. I should’ve asked you about it weeks ago, after I saw her at your office the first time. I didn’t want you to think I was insecure or suspicious.”

Thomas kissed her softly on the lips. “You are a little insecure and suspicious,” he replied, picking up his towel and tossing it at her. Sophie didn’t catch it or laugh.

“Too soon?” Thomas said.

“Way too soon!”

Thomas pulled on his scrubs and then checked for messages on his cell phone and pager. Sophie watched his every move from their bed, gauging how empty her life would be if he wasn’t in it.

He noticed her staring and sat down on the bed beside her. “When are you going to get it through that thick skull of yours,” Thomas said with a smile that made her feel good all over, “you’re all that matters to me?”

—

SOPHIE ARRIVED AT STARBUCKS EARLY to clear her head before she talked to Mindy. A breakfast, they’d both decided last night, was needed. Sophie wanted a closer friend, but she needed a confidant. While ordering her coffee she contemplated how much to let Mindy in.

“A low-fat Salted Caramel Macchiato, no whip,” she said to the barista behind the counter. Sophie wondered what this girl’s story was. Working her way through college like I did, or taking a gap year to figure herself out? Sophie studied her as she put the lid on the paper cup. Her name badge had a yellow smiley face on it partly covering up the last of the letters in S-T-A-C.

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