Once Friends by Z.L. Arkadie

Author:Z.L. Arkadie [Arkadie, Z.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942857211
Publisher: Z.L. Arkadie Books
Published: 2018-03-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The four-hour flight went way too fast once they got down to business. Jay had rented a house on Airbnb as Jake Johnson, a name he actually had a real ID and credit cards for. He’d also ordered groceries through Instacart and rented a vehicle. It was a sports car, of course. Even when they were kids, Jay had preferred everything fast, from his bikes to his girlfriends.

They strategized their first move.

“I mean, do small towns ever change?” Sonja asked.

Jay cracked an amused smile. “That’s right, you’ve never been to Midland.”

“Have you?” she asked.

“Never. But have you ever been to Texas?”

Sonja shook her head. “I guess I don’t get out of California much.” Now that she admitted that, she felt so embarrassed. Sitting across from the big-time actor who could schedule a private flight at a drop of a dime made her feel as though her life had been more stagnant than she thought.

“Hey, Sonja?” Jay said with a delicate voice.

She looked up.

“There, that’s better.” He smiled.

Sonja hadn’t realized she had dropped her face due to all her regrets about the stuff she’d never done. It wasn’t as if she hadn’t the means and opportunity to get out and see the world. The days had just gotten away from her. One day, she looked up and she was snaking Ms. Jenkins’s toilet yet again and hating every minute of it.

They decided to change the subject and get caught up some more. He told her all about his experiences working with Elaine for the last two months. Basically, she was a bossy hard-ass who got shit done.

“How’s Theresa these days?” he asked.

Sonja smirked. “She’s still the same. Alpha to the extreme and can’t stop exercising to save her life.”

Jay laughed. “But she hasn’t gotten married yet either.”

“Ha!” Sonja scoffed. “She’s like a praying mantis ready to rip a guy’s head off simply because she’s hungry.”

Jay clutched his stomach and laughed even harder. Sonja remembered how much she used to love making him laugh. She told him more stories about Theresa. Like how she’d brought one of her many boyfriends to a family dinner and broke up with him before the night ended because he drank too much wine.

“Then she broke up with another guy because she could do more push-ups than he could. And then another guy because he said that her sister and cousins were knockouts.”

“Well, you are,” Jay said in a frank tone.

“Thanks, but that’s not a reason to break up with your boyfriend.” Sonja shook her head. “I don’t get her. If she doesn’t want to have a boyfriend, then why keep picking them up? Now she’s crazy.”

“And what’s Robin’s story?” Jay had made himself comfortable in his seat.

When she’d first seen him yesterday, she’d thought his face displayed some serious exhaustion, perhaps from all the stress of being a movie star, but as she smiled at him in that moment, the puffiness underneath his eyes evened out and his skin glowed. It was clear Jay was

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