Bittersweet by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams [Adams, Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary
ISBN: 1484861388
Published: 2013-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

Ten

Zoe stared at herself in the mirror, telling herself she looked perfectly appropriate for a blind date.

She wore heels, chocolate brown jeans, and a flattering top that didn’t show any cleavage.

She didn’t want to go out on a blind date, but she was anyway.

A couple of her friends had picked this guy, Ryan, out for her, and they’d been nagging her about it for a month.

She’d been holding them off pretty well, but every conversation about it ended up becoming an inquisition about her relationship with Adam. They all figured that, if she didn’t want to go out with this guy, then she must already be attached to someone else.

The questions about Adam were something Zoe couldn’t handle. She didn’t always know the answers to them, and that made her feel sick and guilty.

Josh had been her husband. She shouldn’t be attracted to his cousin this way.

Just the idea of it scared her. Had to be wrong.

So she’d finally relented and agreed to the blind date, mostly just to get her friends off her back.

She was smoothing down her hair when she noticed a glint of diamond on her left hand.

She glanced down at her engagement and wedding rings.

She really shouldn’t wear the rings on a date with someone else.

With a familiar heaviness in her belly, she slipped them off and went to put them in Josh’s leather box.

As the doorman rang up, saying that Ryan was here, Zoe felt strangely naked.

She didn’t like the feeling at all.

* * *

When Ryan had called earlier that week, he’d asked where she wanted to go to dinner. She’d mentioned a new Italian place that Adam had been talking up, so that was where they ended up going.

It wasn’t a bad evening at all. Ryan was nice and cute and, by any normal criteria, would have been a great potential date for her. But, by the time dessert was eaten and the check came, she was ready for it to be over.

She missed Logan. And, ridiculously, she kind of missed Adam too. While Ryan was very pleasant, it wasn’t the same as hanging out with Adam.

Zoe had thought about asking Adam if he wanted to babysit tonight, but she felt a little strange about bringing up the date at all. So she hadn’t mentioned it one way or the other and had instead taken Logan over to her nanny, since the woman had school-aged kids and couldn’t stay at the loft in the evenings.

Her nanny had suggested Logan just spend the night, since it would be late when Zoe returned and they would already be asleep. Zoe thought the woman might also have been thinking that Zoe might appreciate some privacy in the loft at the end of the date. It was a kind thought on her nanny’s fault, however ill-founded.

There was no way she was going to bed with her blind date tonight.

As they were leaving the restaurant, Ryan told her it had been great to meet her, and he put an arm around her in a casual half-hug.

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