Ace Part Seven by Kate Aaron

Author:Kate Aaron [Aaron, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

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That night, I couldn’t get Lexi out of my head. I missed him. I’d grown accustomed, in only two short weeks, to having him beside me, to holding him in my arms when I sat on the sofa or lay in bed. I found myself talking to inanimate objects as I bumbled around the flat, just to have something to speak to. I asked the shower how long it was going to take warming up; quizzed the wardrobe whether or not it was too early for me to throw on a pair of fleecy joggers and an old, stretched T-shirt; urged the kettle to hurry up and boil. None of them answered me back.

I turned on the television just to hear the sound of voices. I’d led such a silent life, sitting mute in front of the TV watching imaginary people live out their imaginary lives for my entertainment. It was all so hollow; empty. I wasn’t entertained.

I flicked over to a music channel, Classic FM or something, less talking, just soothing instrumental music. I took a battered book off a shelf and settled down to read, hoping to lose myself in another time and place, a different world, but not even angels, demons, and an angsty love triangle between a warlock and two Shadow Hunters could hold my attention. Even the Mortal Instruments had failed me.

I spent the weekend working myself to the bone at the gym, dragging my aching carcass home and falling into bed exhausted every night. Channel hopping on Sunday I’d paused to watch an attractive brunette woman explained to three others the mathematics of heartbreak. It took half the length of a relationship to get over it, she declared with absolute conviction.

I did the calculation my head: I’d known Lexi for fifteen days—and how pathetic was that when I added it up; how heartbreakingly inadequate?—which meant I needed seven and a half to get over him. Best round it up to eight to be sure. That meant I only had one more day left and I’d stop caring. I wondered what that felt like, if I’d wake on Tuesday morning to find Lexi had been removed from whatever place inside me he still resided, like a surgeon taking out a tumour. Did I even want that, or did I secretly enjoy him being there—did his presence comfort me, even if it only existed now in my head? Would I feel empty inside without him there; would he leave a hollow space behind that I couldn’t fill? What if he was The One?

I shoved that thought down quickly. I wasn’t some love-starved teenage girl. Grown men didn’t think in terms like that. Certainly, I didn’t think like that. Looking up, I realised the show continuing to play on the TV was Sex and the City. Shuddering, I switched it off.

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