Loving Pursuit by Emilia Hattington

Author:Emilia Hattington
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

8

Little Talks

Marie

“Tell me everything,” Andrea said the next day as soon as I arrived at the shop.

“Can I finish my coffee first?” I asked, holding up the cup from the coffee shop across the street. I needed the caffeine boost after the sleep I’d missed out on last night. Not that I was complaining.

“No. What happened with your lover boy yesterday? Did he make a move?”

“I think that showing up here demanding a tour guide was him making a move,” I said, purposefully driving her crazy by not spilling the beans.

“You look different,” she said with narrowed eyes.

“No, I don’t.”

“Yes, you do,” she gasped. “You had sex!”

I looked around the shop quickly to see that we only had one customer and she was at the very back. Hopefully she couldn’t hear us.

“No, I didn’t,” I lied, keeping my eyes averted.

“God, you’re a terrible liar. Good for you, girl.”

“Can we stop talking about this, please?” I asked, as the customer came toward the front of the shop.

I recognized her as Lilian Howard, the owner of the local beauty shop. Great. If there was anyone that could spread gossip quickly, it was her. But Andrea didn’t care.

“I can’t believe that’s the guy you met in Hawaii,” she continued. “You didn’t say he was a gorgeous dreamboat.”

“Are you talking about that blonde hottie staying at the bed and breakfast?” Lilian asked, seemingly unable to resist butting into the conversation.

“Yep,” Andrea replied, while I glared at her.

“I heard that he was seen with you,” Lilian said to me with a smile that suggested I’d given her the juiciest news she’d heard in a while. Maybe since Greg had called off the wedding.

“His name is Lewis,” I said, not knowing how else to respond. I didn’t like that they were giving him nicknames based on his looks. It awakened a possessive monster inside that I never knew existed.

“I’m so glad to see that you’re getting back out there,” Lilian said.

My impulse was to deny such a thing. I still didn’t even know where Lewis lived, but it wasn’t here, and we hadn’t talked about what we were to each other. Not really.

Then, I remembered the way that he’d stroked my hair in the early morning hours after our second round of sex. And the way that he’d helped me find my grandmother. And the way his eyes stayed on me all the time, never straying.

Yeah, there was no denying that we were an item. I wasn’t sure why this rich, handsome man that could probably have anyone he wanted was interested in me, but I wasn’t one to look a gift horse in the mouth. So far, he made me happy.

Lilian bought a striped blouse, and left quickly after that, probably eager to go and tell everyone that came into her beauty shop that the town pity case had landed herself a “hottie.”

“So, tell me what happened yesterday,” Andrea said once again.

“Grandma was lost.”

I knew that wasn’t what she wanted to hear, but it was what I needed to talk about.

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