A Work in Progress by L T Smith
Author:L T Smith [Smith, L T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783955338534
Publisher: Ylva Publishing
Published: 2017-05-22T04:00:00+00:00
Chapter 8
I’d barely finished washing up my hands and taking a close look at the damage before my phone rang. A grin erupted, stretching my lips to their widest. I fully expected to see Virgina’s name appear on the screen, but it was Gill’s face that greeted me and not that of the woman with whom I had spent the early part of the evening. The grin slipped, my mouth slackening enough to release the sigh that reflected my deflating mood. I should have been joyous, ecstatic. It was Gillian Parker! My Gill! The woman I’d been in love with forever was calling me, and I was wishing that it was someone else.
What the fuck? Why on earth would I be wishing that? I loved Gill, always had. Even if she would never know it, would never be mine, I still loved her.
“Why haven’t you been answering my calls?”
Gill’s tone indicated she was pissed off, and I was surprised. Not because she was pissed off, but because I hadn’t picked up her call and I could still hear her.
“I’m behind you, you twit.”
I swung around and saw Gill half-in, half-out of the doorway to the restroom. She rolled her eyes at me and stepped inside.
“I’ve been calling you for the last forty minutes. You’re late.”
“Great to see you, Brynn. Thanks for coming, Brynn. Oh, Brynn, have you hurt yourself?” My tone was sarcastic but not malicious.
“You’ve hurt yourself?” Gill stepped forwards, her eyes and hands checking me over. When she turned my hands over and saw the palms, air hissed in through her teeth. “These must sting like a bitch.”
I nodded, trying to look tough whilst she prodded the grazed skin. I felt every poke and had to stop the expletives attempting to grind their way through gritted teeth.
“What happened? You okay?” She stepped back, her hands still gently holding mine as she lifted them to check me over some more. “Did you fuck over in those heels?”
Words suddenly failed me, so I nodded. It wasn’t Gill being so concerned about my welfare that rendered me speechless; it was that I didn’t feel that sudden rush I usually got when I saw her that knocked me off-kilter. For the last twenty years or so, Gillian Parker’s presence had always elicited some physical reaction from me, whether it was a blush or palpitations. When she was near, my heart would go crazy, my blood seemed to pump more quickly through my veins, everything seemed to have more purpose. But now? Now it was just me and Gill in the loos, with her checking over my bumps and bruises.
“I’m fine, Gill. Just stumbled in these bloody shoes.” I tugged my hands free from hers and held them closer to my face for examination. “I think I’ve got all the shit out of them.”
“Tom can look at them. He won’t mind.”
I shrugged. “I’ll live.” I grinned at her and winked. “Just.”
Gill’s eyes squinted as if she was reading me. “Did you bang your head?”
I shrugged again.
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