All My Love (The One and Only Book 2) by Lauren Milson

Author:Lauren Milson [Milson, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-16T06:00:00+00:00

9

Elizabeth

I am finally in Paris! The city of love is more beautiful than I could have imagined. Oh, and imagine it I have. The tall Tower with its twinkling lights against a black and blue inky sky. The shops and cafes dotting the narrow, winding, tree-lined streets. I’ve seen it all in books and on the internet and now I finally get to take it all in.

And can you imagine a smell? Why not? Warm butter, honey, chocolate, red wine, it’s all there in my imagination, and it’s finally here all laid out in front of me to taste. Go on, imagine it. I’ll wait.

And the men! The men are so forward. Last night, for example, I was sitting with Ben at the most gorgeous outdoor cafe I’ve ever seen in real life. I’ve seen pictures of places like that, mostly on social media, but it was so incredible to actually be there. It’s surreal. It’s like I’m having an out-of-body experience, and the way everything’s clicking into place feels so right.

Oh, back to the men. I was sitting with Ben and he had to take an important work call. As soon as he left the table, a man sitting at the little outdoor bar came over and started to talk to me. He wasn’t shy, he wasn’t coy, he just came right up to me and told me that he thought I looked like an interesting girl and wanted my number.

It was a little bit brazen, I have to admit. I mean, I was sitting there with Ben, and this other man swooped in just seconds later. He was cute, he was nice, and he was direct.

It was all very flattering, in fact. A man coming up to you when you’re on what looks like a date with an entirely different man, no Mrs. Doubtfire type situation there to give you anything like plausible deniability?

I ended up not giving my number to this Parisian man. It didn’t feel right. I think Ben assumes I did, and I’m not going to correct his assumption. It feels as though I would be overstepping somehow if I tried to correct him.

This is spring break, a time when thousands of coeds across America venture to far-away lands to have sex with foreigners. I should let myself do this. Allow myself this little indulgence. Give myself over to the romance and mystery of the city.

I have a perfect candidate.

The perfect candidate, though, is Ben.

Which means he’s anything but perfect.

I take a deep breath and close my laptop. I cannot publish this. My parents read my blog, god help me, my mom even has an alert on her phone that informs her every time I hit the publish button. My father is slightly less tech-savvy but just as interested as my mom is, and if they published my blog as a serial in Reader’s Digest he would be all over it. If my father, especially, knew what I was thinking about his friend, I don’t know who he’d kill first - me or Ben.

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