Misspelled by Julie E. Czerneda

Author:Julie E. Czerneda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DAW
Published: 2015-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

Totally Devoted 2 U

John Zakour

Narrator: Ah, love. It’s all you need. It can also be more than some people deserve. That never stopped someone like Tina.

It was beautiful summer day. The sky was blue, the sun was shining, birds were chirping away as though they didn’t have a care in the world. Tina should have been happy. Only she wasn’t. She was frustrated over her man. Tina and Jerry had been going out for over three years now, and he still wasn’t nearly as devoted to her as she wanted him to be.

Tina didn’t know why. It couldn’t have been her. After all, she kept herself in good shape. She went to the gym if not every other day then every other, other day. She was still pleasant on the eyes. She may have been thirty-one, but her friends insisted she didn’t look a day over twenty-eight. Not a week went by when she didn’t catch at least one guy checking her out as she walked by. Tina wasn’t just a pretty face; she had a great job bringing in solid money as one of Buffalo, New York’s, leading fashion designers. To top it off she had a winning personality and a great sense of humor.

Yet, all of that wasn’t good enough for Jerry. Tina couldn’t shake the feeling that even when they were together, they weren’t really together. Jerry was always off somewhere else. He never looked her lovingly in the eyes, claiming it wasn’t that he didn’t love her but that it wasn’t manly. Whenever they were in a bar, restaurant, or just walking down the street, Tina would catch him not so subtly checking out all the other women. She was sure this meant Jerry wasn’t happy with her. He would leave the second somebody better came along.

Sure it may have been her imagination, but it probably wasn’t. Nah, it couldn’t be. She had a good ability for judging people. If Tina didn’t do something fast, Jerry and she would be history. She knew it and dreaded it. The problem was, Tina didn’t know what she could do.

Then, by chance, Tina walked by Madam Marla’s Magic Boutique. It was funny, Tina had walked down this street hundreds of times before during her lunch break and never noticed this strange little shop. She shrugged. It had to be fate. That meant she needed to check the place out. Tina wasn’t one to tempt fate.

Tina opened the door and peeked her head in. The place was small and not much to look at. There was a table with a velvet tapestry draped over it and a young lady sitting behind it. The lady was a pretty little thing with dark wavy hair and a dark complexion; she was intently concentrating on a notebook computer. Tina felt she’d made a mistake.

‘‘Oh, sorry,’’ Tina said to the young lady. ‘‘Wrong building,’’ as she slowly backed out of the door.

The young lady smiled. ‘‘Please come in, Tina,’’ she said. ‘‘There is more here that meets the eye, mind, and the heart.

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