Little Bird by Honey Palomino

Author:Honey Palomino [Palomino, Honey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

SAMANTHA

I was getting into the bad habit of falling asleep on my couch and my aching body was not happy about it. Gigi and I ventured off into the neighborhood for a walk after breakfast to stretch out my sore muscles.

Gigi didn’t help, though, up to her usual antics of lunging for every living things she came across. Five minutes into the walk, my shoulder was screaming from attempting to keep her under control.

Not wanting to take any chances, I’d shoved a ball cap on my head and put on a newly bought pair of sunglasses that looked nothing like the dark movie-star ones Nate had always insisted I wear. I threw on a baggy pair of jeans and a dark blue hoodie that hung loosely on my body. It had the desired effect — nobody seemed to look twice at me — but that wasn’t the same for Gigi. She drew attention wherever she went, just because of her massive size alone. If I could have, I’d have given her a makeover, too, but dyeing her coat was cruel and there really wasn’t anything at all I could do.

At least Nate didn’t have the entire world looking for her, too.

I still hadn’t replied to Dane’s message and I woke up feeling guilty about that whole thing. I never should have gone out with him in the first place, I realized that now. The look of disappointment on his face when I turned to walk away outside the restaurant had haunted me throughout the night. As much as I’d tried to enjoy it — and I had enjoyed parts of it — I shouldn’t have started anything with Dane at all.

He deserved something different than whatever my reality had turned into.

He deserved to be with someone who could be honest with him. Who could show him who she really was and have a true, authentic relationship with him. Not some farce of a lie that I was forced to live now.

Loneliness.

That was what I was doomed to now. I needed to just accept my fate, but it stung. The idea that I’d never be able to love again. That I’d never again be able to wake up next to someone I loved.

The amount of joy I’d miss was not lost on me.

But it was better this way. By all appearances, Dane was a good man and he deserved a good —

“Samantha!” A man’s voice boomed behind me, stopping me and Gigi in our tracks.

Slowly, I turned around, coming face to face with the very man I was thinking about.

“D-Dane!” I cried, looking around to get my bearings. I’d been so lost in my own thoughts, I’d been letting Gigi drag me around the neighborhood aimlessly. We were at least ten blocks away from our apartment, standing in front of a large Tudor-style home with an immaculately groomed garden.

I blinked a few times, trying to clear the confusion clouding my rattled brain.

“Wow, what a coincidence,” he said. “I was just thinking about you.

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