Grinch Please! by Alina Jacobs

Author:Alina Jacobs [Jacobs, Alina]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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GRACIE

What in all honesty could I do to Kelly?

I was her unpaid wedding planner; therefore, I knew all the vendors had already been booked, decorations ordered, catering menu approved, and cake deposit paid. There wasn’t much left to sabotage.

“Just face it,” I told myself angrily. “You’re not going to do anything. You never do anything. You’re going to eat the rest of the cheese in this Advent calendar, then you’re going to go home and hide in the kitchen while your family talks shit about you losing yet another boyfriend to your sister, and then come the New Year, you’ll be back at your desk doing everyone’s work for them.”

It wasn’t fair that my sister could ruin my life over and over and everyone still loved her and catered to her and gave Kelly everything she wanted.

I blinked back tears. A long-haul bus trip was bad enough without being the crying girl.

Just my luck, it was a full bus. I wasn’t even going to get a row to myself.

“Watch it!” a woman snapped at me as I pushed my way to the back of the bus, looking for an empty seat.

There was only one open seat in the back.

An angry-looking man in a worn leather jacket and heavy boots was manspreading in an aisle seat, arms crossed, reading a book. He ignored me when I stopped in front of him.

I cleared my throat.

“Excuse me.”

Pugnog barked, though since he was a pug, it was more of a wheeze.

The man acted like he didn’t even hear me.

“Excuse me,” I said, louder this time. “Is this seat taken?”

The man, wearing a black skullcap, looked up at me, annoyed.

I shivered as his pale-gray, almost-silver eyes met mine. There was a scar on his forehead and another under his jaw.

Dakota’s right. You need to grow a backbone.

“Could you scoot over so I can sit?” I asked firmly.

The man sighed in annoyance and made a big show of closing his book and standing up. He didn’t even offer to put my bag up above on the rack and instead stood there, arms crossed, and watched me struggle with it.

What a dick, I thought as I wedged myself into the window seat.

The man sat down beside me and resumed his reading and manspreading.

I hugged the window as the bus rumbled to life and we turned out of the bus depot.

My seat neighbor read, I stewed, and Pugnog snored loudly and drooled as the bus drove at a snail’s pace north from New York City to Rhode Island.

I bet James was halfway there already, driving the company car, because, of course, my father was going to side with my ex-fiancé over me, his firstborn child.

I didn’t even get paid enough to take the train. Whenever I had asked my dad for a raise, he hemmed and hawed and say that it would mean he’d have to take money from someone else in the family. Like that was some great loss. Shoot, Kelly was on the payroll, and she barely did anything besides sleep with my fiancé.

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