At the Wedding by Matt Dunn

Author:Matt Dunn
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503902466
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2018-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Rachel almost skipped towards the Metro, trying – and failing – to prevent the Cheshire-cat grin from creeping back onto her face, something that people had been noticing, and that one or two had even given her a wide berth because of. She’d just slept with Jay. Who she’d just met. And in the afternoon. What had she been thinking?

In actual fact, she hadn’t been thinking. Not with her head, at least. If nothing else, she’d proved that Rich’s comment about her not being impulsive was rubbish: asking Jay to lunch had been impulsive. Going up to his flat afterwards had been impulsive too. The couple of times she’d been impulsive while she’d been up there had made four. And then, as she’d left, she’d even thought about asking Jay to the wedding later. Though Rachel wasn’t that impulsive. Unfortunately.

So, instead, she’d left him sleeping peacefully in his bed, retrieved her clothes from the various parts of his flat she’d been shocked to find them in and dressed herself as silently as she could. Then – careful not to wake him – she’d snuck out of his flat and out of his life.

She knew Jay was possibly as embarrassed as she was, and probably wouldn’t have come this evening anyway, but that was okay. He lived in Barcelona, she lived in Brighton, and EasyJet wasn’t that easy – even though she had been. No, all it had been was a holiday romance. Or not even that – a fling. Which, Rachel suspected, was precisely what she’d needed after being chucked.

Maybe she shouldn’t tell Livia. As her maid of honour, what she’d just done hadn’t quite lived up to the title. But Livia would want to know how her sightseeing had gone, and Rachel doubted she could lie about it, or pretend to have been on the open-top bus for all this time. In any case, the fact that her smile would have to be removed surgically would probably give the real story away.

Funnily enough, she felt like crying too, her emotions (like her clothes) all over the place. She’d never had a one-night stand before (although technically it had been a one-afternoon stand, and they hadn’t actually been standing, except for that bit against the bathroom door en route to the bedroom). Never slept with anyone on the first date. It had taken her a month to finally sleep with Rich (and now she thought about it, it hadn’t been worth the wait), so this afternoon had been completely out of character. Maybe it had been the emotion of being robbed, or the half a bottle of cava, but Rachel hadn’t been able to help herself.

Twice.

Although why shouldn’t she have? She was (technically) single; Jay was too (or so he’d said, and she believed him: she’d used the opportunity while retrieving her clothes to do a quick recce of his flat, and it was definitely a single man’s apartment – a girl could tell these things, usually from the lack of dusting or the unhealthy contents of the fridge).

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