Ignite (Dark Kings) by Donna Grant

Author:Donna Grant [Grant, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250182890
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2019-04-29T18:30:00+00:00

TO MATCH OR NOT TO MATCH

Hello, lovelies!

You know how there are matchmakers out there that will help you find the right person? I’m actually tempted to hire one. The only problem is that the good ones cost a bit of money.

Hmm. Maybe we should have Date Analysts instead. Someone who could evaluate every step of a date from the initial meeting through to the end and then give a report. I wonder if that would help.

Sadly, I’ve considered this very thing for … well, awhile now. Every time I think I have one issue figured out, another pops up. This could be why there is no such thing on the market to help us date-disasters.

That brings me back to the matchmakers. Which—I hate to admit—are exactly what online dating is. They’ve just taken out an actual person and plugged in some algorithm to help sort through the thousands of people to find us proper candidates.

Why then isn’t it working?

And that brings me to me.

Perhaps I’m too picky. Maybe I want too much from the men I go out on dates with. Perhaps the faceless man I see in my dreams doesn’t exist, and I should accept that.

Or … maybe I shouldn’t even consider lowering my standards and being anything but deliriously happy with a man with off-the-charts chemistry that they always show in movies.

A lifetime of loneliness while waiting for The One, or settling.

I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be lonely than settle.

And yet I accepted another date yesterday. Hope that the next one might be IT keeps me going, I guess. After the last date where his pictures were at least ten years old so he looked nothing as I expected, I’m a little leery now. It’s my own fault.

I used to make sure that my date and I shared a selfie before we actually met. I didn’t with this guy, and I paid the price.

I was put off by his lie—because that was exactly what it was. In his pictures, he was fit. Very fit. Wide shoulders, muscular arms. So, imagine my surprise when a man with no muscles and a potbelly walked up at our meeting place.

Now, everyone knows with online dating that first impressions are the photos. That’s why people like, smile, wink, or whatever at you. So, if you don’t have recent pictures, you’re duping others.

That really upset me, but I didn’t want to be rude and end the date based on looks. I’d like to say I’m not that shallow, but if we’re honest, we have to be attracted to our mates, right?

And there was no attraction.

None. Nothing. Zip. Zero.

I made the decision to stay on the date. He immediately took my hand. Which, I still don’t know how I feel about. I’m affectionate, but we’d just met in person despite texting for over a week. Still … work up to that.

And he kissed me. Now I really fought about what to do regarding the date. I had driven some distance to see him and had a hotel to go back to, but I’m just not a mean person.

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