Overtime by Kat Mizera

Author:Kat Mizera
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heart Eyes Press LLC

I’d had one of my friends give me a ride to the store yesterday so I could pick up flowers, dessert, and the ingredients to cook dinner for Ellie. I wasn’t much of a cook but I’d found a pasta recipe that looked simple enough and hoped she’d like it. I’d practiced one night last week when she’d been in class, and Paxton and Naomi loved it, so I wasn’t overly worried tonight.

I did all the prep work, chopping garlic ahead of time and getting all the ingredients ready to go. Then I set up the flowers in the middle of our kitchen table, which I’d covered with a pretty tablecloth I’d borrowed from one of my friends, who’d borrowed it from his mother. I got out the package of fake rose petals I’d ordered online and spread them all over the bedroom. I’d made my bed for the first time in ages and lit as many candles as I could get my hands on. Paxton and I owned a few, Naomi gave me a couple of hers, and I’d bought a few as well. Hopefully, I wouldn’t set the place on fire between the candles and me cooking.

Just before Ellie was supposed to arrive, I put on dress pants and a button-down shirt. We’d never gotten dressed up since we’d been together, usually opting for jeans and sweats, and I wanted to make tonight a little more special than usual. It was our first Valentine’s Day together, and really, our first holiday of any kind, so I wanted it to be memorable.

Things had gotten serious between us much more quickly than I’d imagined they would and it had really all been studying, hanging out, and sex. I felt a little guilty that I hadn’t taken her out on real dates, beyond a few times at Tito’s and the coffee shop, but there was really no time and I couldn’t afford it. My savings was dwindling and there were four long months until I could get any kind of paycheck.

Money wouldn’t be a problem anymore if I went to the Sidewinders, though. Hell, even the entry-level salary was almost a million dollars a year, so that would change everything. Both for me and for Ellie, if we could find a way to be together. Like I’d told Paxton, I didn’t want to put any more pressure on her. She got enough of that from her family and professors, so the last thing she needed was a boyfriend pushing her in one direction or another. Everything would be so much simpler if she would just come to Vegas with me and we could figure out school from there, but that wouldn’t be fair.

She could probably go anywhere, to Harvard and beyond, so why would she want to be stuck at UNLV? It was a decent school, but it wasn’t Ivy League. Neither was Moo U, but this was different because her mother was both an alumna and a former professor, so Ellie had gotten a full ride.

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