Addicted To You Box Set by K.M. Scott

Author:K.M. Scott [Scott, K.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, anthology
ISBN: 9781941594827
Publisher: Copper Key Media, LLC
Published: 2017-11-23T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

Kristina

The cabbie loves to chat to his fares, and for one of the few times in my life, I’m thankful for the distraction. Being back in New York brings all the memories of my time with Ian back with a vengeance, making me want to cry at how much I still miss him. I thought all the weeks apart while he was in Rome would help, but the loss of him in my life only gets worse every day I don’t see him or hear him say one of those things that always sounded so perfect coming out of his mouth.

“The weather has been nightmarish, even for this city,” the cabbie says as he weaves his way through Upper West Side traffic.

Considering it’s rush hour, we’re making great time, but I’m in no hurry to be back in my apartment. Too many memories there. I’ll only be home for four days, and something tells me that will be too long knowing he’s just a few blocks away.

“It’s still better than Vancouver weather,” I say as the cabbie continues to chatter on about the wind and rain the city has been getting pummeled with.

I cradle my signed copy of Caligula’s Dream in my lap. Flipping to the page where Ian wrote that I was his greatest fan, I trace my fingertip over his handwriting, so strong and so masculine with its sharp angles and total lack of roundness.

I can’t help but remember that first night at my apartment. He didn’t know about any of the gossip that I was sure would make him not like me. Nothing about what had happened with John or all the awful things the tabloids had printed about me being so pathetic after he’d left me for that hotel slut.

None of it had mattered to Ian.

My cell phone rings as the cabbie begins to explain what he read in the Farmer’s Almanac about how this winter is predicted to be a bad one for the northeast, but even my talking to someone else doesn’t stop him from reporting what some groundhog or caterpillar thinks will happen over the next few months.

I answer it and see it’s Cilla. “Hey you! Are you back in the Big Apple yet?”

“Hi Cilla. Yeah, I’m home for a few days. Are you here or in LA?”

She clucks her tongue like she’s disgusted about what she’s going to say next. “LA. But I should be back there in about a week.”

“I’ll be gone back to Vancouver by then.”

In truth, I’m not really that disappointed I won’t be able to see Cilla this week. She’s never been very good at empathy, and with how I’m feeling about being back in New York, she’d just give me a hard time about being down. Even worse, she’d push and push to find out what’s making me sad, which is something I definitely don’t want to discuss with her.

Being upset about men isn’t Cilla’s style. She’s more a buck-up-and-move-on type of girl.

“Aren’t we just jet setters? Well, next trip then.

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