Complicated by Claire Kent

Author:Claire Kent [Kent, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

Three

“So are you ever going to tell me about it?”

“What?” Victoria gave a startled jerk and turned in her desk chair to face the door.

Jeanie was standing in the doorway of her office. Her hair was a pinkish shade this week, and she was wearing all black—a turtleneck and stretch pants like a beatnik poet. “You’ve been moping around for the last three weeks. I was wondering if you were ever going to tell me why.”

“I haven’t been moping.” But then she snapped her mouth closed at Jeanie’s knowing, sympathetic gaze. “I didn’t think it had been that obvious.”

She had been depressed for the last three weeks, far more affected by her breakup with Greg than she’d expected to be. She’d known it wouldn’t be easy—she would miss him, miss the sex, and miss having such an exhilarating aspect to her life—but she’d thought she would be able to talk herself out of her low mood fairly quickly.

She was a smart, realistic, matter-of-fact kind of person. She was used to not getting everything she wanted, and she’d always managed to be satisfied even when life didn’t go the way she wished.

In the past, she’d been able to make the most out of circumstances.

Which was why she wasn’t prepared to still be brooding about Greg almost a month after she’d broken up with him.

She couldn’t stop thinking about him. Couldn’t stop wishing things had happened differently. Couldn’t stop hoping he was all right and hoping he missed her a little bit too.

She hadn’t seen or heard from him since she’d left his house that afternoon. She hadn’t expected to.

But that didn’t mean she wasn’t crushed.

She was the one who had ended it, and she was still certain she hadn’t made a mistake. Obviously her emotions had gotten more involved than she’d intended—otherwise she wouldn’t be so upset about losing him. If they’d stayed together for meaningless sex, she would have had her heart broken eventually.

It was better this way.

It just felt like her heart was broken anyway.

“You hide it pretty well,” Jeanie said, coming into the office and shutting the door. “But I know you. Did your fling with that guy fall apart?”

Victoria let out a shaky breath. “Yeah. It fell apart.”

“And it wasn’t as casual as you thought?”

“No. I guess I just fooled myself into thinking it could remain casual indefinitely. It was bound to end badly, one way or another.”

Jeanie perched on the end of a chair next to Victoria’s desk. Her face was compassionate. “Did he decide to move on?”

“No. I ended it. It was getting too complicated.”

“If you ended it, why don’t you just tell him you changed your mind?”

“I can’t. It needed to end. Even if this particular complication could be resolved, there’s no way I could go back to meaningless sex with him now.” Victoria rubbed her forehead with her finger and thumb, trying to rub away the faint headache she’d had for the last few weeks.

“It wouldn’t be meaningless anymore?”

Victoria groaned and lowered her head into her hands.

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