Instalove in New York by Katy Winters

Author:Katy Winters [Winters, Katy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Bree

I haven’t seen Stephan in a few weeks now, and it aches like a loose tooth. I don’t know what it was about talking to him all night, and the way that he’d held me so gently afterwards, but he’d wrapped his arms around me and refused to let go. We talked about anything and everything: my dreams of becoming a nurse and how my childhood best friend had inspired me. The fact that he wanted to become a big enough lawyer that he could start doing pro bono work for people running away from domestic violence.

It went further than just having sex. After the initial few moments our need for each other settled into something that resembled more than that. It was amazing, and learning about each other just proved to me that our silly flirting with each other had had some kind of basis in reality to it.

I sigh, rubbing my eyes, and look at my phone. After that first night, though, I realized how ridiculous that sounded. He’d said it himself: it was a one-night stand. There was nothing to do with “reality”; of course we’d talked, it was just what people did, right?

I’d assigned myself a shift in the kitchen at the cafe this week to give myself some time to realize that blocking his number had been the right way to go. It had taken me a little while after, we’d texted every day, to realize that he was probably just being friendly because he lived in a new city and didn’t know anyone there. We hadn’t talked about that night, just things that he’d seen in Detroit and what was going on at his favorite cafe. It amounted to nothing but talk about the weather, so it was pretty obvious that nothing was going to happen.

I started scrubbing the dishes in front of me as Lory wandered, waiting for her next order to come up. “So are you going to tell me what’s been bothering you?” she said finally. “We haven’t gone out in weeks.”

“Remember table five?” I say finally, putting my plates in the dishwasher. The steam was relaxing me, the repetitive motions giving me a sense of purpose and calm that I didn’t feel.

“The hot lawyer guy? Yeah, he hasn’t come in in a while. What’s going on with that? The last time I heard...”

I interrupt her. “I wanted to jump him. Like, for real. And...” I sigh again, wiping my forehead with the back of my arm. “And he asked me for the one-night stand I told you about. And we did. And it was the most amazing thing that I’ve ever felt. But then… we talked.”

“We talked?” Lory asks. “What exactly does that mean?”

“It means we literally sat there for half the night talking about hopes, and dreams, and favorite foods and childhood nicknames and… all of the things that you want people to ask you that nobody ever does. But he did…and then he left. He’s in Detroit.”

She stays silent for a long time, leaning back on the counter.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.