Love Waits by Gerri Hill

Author:Gerri Hill [Hill, Gerri]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Romance
ISBN: 9781594931864
Google: vtChQQAACAAJ
Amazon: 1594931860
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2009-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Present Day

Gina stood naked in her room, eyeing the clothes she’d laid out on the bed. While the dinner and dance wasn’t deemed formal, Crissy advised it was a dress-up affair. However, this was Calloway. Not all “dress-up” rules applied here. Especially if you weren’t all that fond of dressing up in the first place.

The black jeans with the nice leather boots is what Gina wanted to wear. What she knew she should wear was the fancy suit Tracy had picked out for her. Would it be considered a fashion faux pas if she mixed the silky turquoise blouse of the suit with the tight black jeans? Gina decided she didn’t care. She wasn’t really a suit kind of gal. She was simply letting Tracy play dress-up with her when they’d gone shopping.

She glanced at her watch, knowing she had another half an hour before they were to meet at the bar for pre-dinner drinks.

Then dinner and dancing. And a brunch tomorrow for those who wanted, then they would all disperse and go on with their lives. Of course, Gina hadn’t spent much time talking to anyone other than Ashleigh and a few short conversations with Crissy.

She’d had a brief—and awkward—encounter with Jennifer, the girl famous for her swim parties. Gina didn’t recognize her as she was just a few ounces shy of three hundred pounds now.

Divorced with two kids, she still lived in Calloway. That was the extent of their conversation and Gina escaped back to the safety of Ashleigh’s company.

Which was ironic, seeing as how she’d been dreading meeting up with Ashleigh again. She couldn’t believe they’d actually discussed the breakup. More than that, she was shocked by Ashleigh’s claim that she and the cute little blonde hadn’t been lovers. Oh, Gina believed her. Ashleigh had no reason to lie about it now. She just couldn’t believe she’d let herself get set up like that, let herself believe it was true, let her insecurities catch up with her. Ashleigh claimed to have hated Gina all these years.

Well, the feeling was mutual. Gina had lived with the thought that Ashleigh had cheated on her, had lived with the feeling that she wasn’t quite good enough for Ashleigh, whether it be sex or whatever. All these years she believed that Ashleigh had found her lacking and had turned to someone else.

All these wasted years.

Well, at least Ashleigh had been able to finally move on. If she and Faith had been together a handful of years, then maybe she’d found her true love. It was odd though that she hadn’t even introduced Faith to her parents.

Gina sighed. Yes, all these wasted years. She’d like to think that maybe now—now that they’d cleared the air about what had happened—she’d be able to move on and perhaps let someone into her life again, into her heart. Not that she’d been intentionally keeping them out, she just hadn’t given anyone a fair chance. Because in the back of her mind, in the back of her heart, she was still comparing everyone she met with Ashleigh.

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