On the Line by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 1852 Media, LLC

THREE

Jolie

I reach for the door handle just as a hand drops onto my shoulder and I’m spun back around.

“Have a nice life?” Leo snaps.

“I—”

“Really?” he says, still snapping.

“I—” I blink, genuinely confused before reality hits. Of course. He did me a favor, retrieving my cell—or sending someone after it anyway—and now he wants… “Uh…do you want money for getting my phone?”

Which, right…

I glance down like my purse will magically transport itself from the bar next to Colleen and Toby and onto my shoulder.

In fairness—and lack of magical abilities aside—they’re probably watching that about as well as they did my phone.

Which means I will have credit cards to cancel.

Though, what does that say about me that my worry for my cell was greater than it is for my purse? Probably because my life is in my phone, and while losing my purse would be inconvenient, losing my cell—

The door swings open again, narrowly missing us—the narrowly part coming because Leo jerks me out of the way.

“Fuck, Theo,” Leo mutters. “What’s your problem?”

The man—Theo, apparently—draws to a halt, his hand clamped over his heart. “Doors,” he mutters. “Jesus Christ.” Then he shakes his head. “Sorry. Here,” he says, holding out my purse and my jacket, “I figured you’d need these.”

“Oh,” I murmur, disappointment settling heavily in my belly. Stupid, huh? “I guess Toby—”

Leo snorts.

I turn, lift my brows. “What?”

A shrug of those big, broad shoulders. “Toby is a dumbass name.”

My brows lift higher, but I can’t focus on that, not with Theo passing me my purse as I turn back. “He didn’t notice?” I can’t help but ask.

The expression on Theo’s face tells me enough.

No.

Toby didn’t notice my purse being picked up by a stranger, nor my jacket. The same as he didn’t notice my cell making it into the pocket of Red Hat’s jeans.

Too busy with Colleen.

Which…God, that really hurts.

“Thanks,” I say instead of letting the pity on Theo’s face slice me deeper.

“Honey,” Theo begins.

Leo growls.

Theo’s brows shoot up, gaze going over my shoulder, but then his expression relaxes, mouth tipping up.

I blink, shake off the melancholy, the confusion, the…mix of weirdness in my belly. Like even though my life has just imploded, I’m standing on the precipice of something…something big. “I—” I clamp my lips together, clear my throat, then exhale, shoving that all aside. “Just, thanks.”

Theo nods, turns away with his lips still curved, and grabs the handle, slipping back in through the door, albeit much more cautiously this time.

The wooden and glass panel slams closed, and I ignore the throbbing in my hand as I reach my uninjured one into my purse, digging out my keys. Home, ice, ibuprofen, change the code on my smart lock (ensuring both Toby and Colleen can’t get into my place), then sleep.

Tomorrow I’ll work.

I’ll ignore the hurt.

I’ll break up with Toby…and Colleen.

Then I’ll drink my frothy hot cocoa, slip into my expensive and cozy jam-jams, and sleep through the night, through the next day, because, thankfully, I take Sundays off.

Then…back to work.

Making money because I can’t make my fucking love life work.

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