Love On the Line: An Enemies to Lovers Standalone by Adriana Peck

Author:Adriana Peck [Peck, Adriana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

I feel seriously on-edge the night of the date with Rosa. This is the first time I’ve asked someone out since Carly all those years ago, and I don’t like to think about how that ended. Not good, that’s all I’ll say.

I spend the day leading up to the date working with Rupert and the rest of my contracting team. We’re making real headway on the back of the house right now as we finish installing various appliances in the kitchen and making sure they all run correctly after hooking up to the gas and electric lines.

After all the contractors have gone home for the day, I find a dilapidated table out in the lobby of my restaurant to sit down at. There’s still a few chairs left here from the previous owner, so I pull one up to the only table still remaining in the lobby and pull out my cell. I figure I should I call ahead to a bar a friend of mine from college happens to own. It’s a little dive bar, Loudmouth Louie’s, tucked away in an alley a couple blocks away from the downtown square. Things usually get a little heavy there on Saturday nights, so I call ahead to see if I can get ahold of Louis, the owner. Maybe he can reserve us a table. After all, what else are old friends for?

“Mason, how are you?!” Louie’s voice screams through the phone. Yup, that’s Loudmouth Louie for you. Big, portly, always sweaty. And he always seemed to be screaming about something related to this or that, God help you if you try to keep up with him in conversation. If he wasn’t mad about something going wrong at his bar, he was screaming about how much he loved this person, or that person, or whoever.

“Mason!” Louie screams. “I haven’t seen you in months! How are YOU?!”

“Louie!” I find myself shouting back even though my restaurant’s dead quiet. “I’m great! Things are fine! I’m starting my own restaurant! How are YOU?!”

“Things are fine, things are fine! I’m just dandy!” I can hear the Loudmouth's background, his bar is already packed with patrons from the sound of it. Probably that’s why he always shouts. Unlike Gambio, whose restaurant is usually on the quieter side, I imagine that Louis probably has some hearing damage after owning a bar for the better part of twenty years. I check my watch, it’s 5:30 p.m.. Of course a bar’s busy, it’s quitting time for all the office jocks and cubicle slaves, Louie’s usual clientele. I’m glad he’s able to stay in business after all these years. You’d think the yelling would turn customers away, but you’d be dead wrong.

After all, the sign out front does say ‘Loudmouth Louie’s’.

“To what do I owe the pleasure of this call, Masie?” His old nickname for me. Great. Didn’t think I’d have to hear that one, but here we are.

“Louis, how packed is it going to be there over at your place

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