Prove You Wrong by Cherry Keeley

Author:Cherry Keeley [Keeley, Cherry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Ella

As I mindlessly storm back to the toilets, the flame of embarrassment flares through me. If he could hit on someone when I’d only left for a few minutes to go to the ladies room, then I’d been right from the start.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

I know I was only supposed to be having fun, seeing what might happen. But that planted the seed in my stupid overthinking brain that something could happen. I thought I’d been wrong about my first impression of Nate. And maybe that meant I’d been wrong about relationships, too.

Walls I’d carefully constructed to protect myself — from relationships and their inevitable failure — had been undermined by these sneaky thoughts. Maybe I could find a trustworthy, reliable guy. Maybe I already had.

But nope.

I swipe under my lashes. The smoke machine is making my eyes prickle. Nothing else.

Cross with myself, I wonder why I hadn’t listened to my instincts. I barge through the door and into the relative peace of the ladies room. It’s blissfully empty and I pace up and down outside the cubicles, unsure of what to do next.

I’m holding my beer but I don’t remember grabbing it. A mist had descended when I saw Nate flirting with that gorgeous blonde. I can’t think why I’ve holed back up in the grotty toilet, either.

Wrapping my arms around me, I brood over all the ways Nate is wrong for me. Guys that look like him are nothing but trouble. I’d honed this theory many years ago thanks to my mum’s revolving door of a love life.

It’s not only his underwear-melting good looks that should have warned me off, although that should be a game-ender by itself. There’s his buzz cut. The tattoos. The inability to commit to a job.

He’s like the love-child of all my mum’s exes, all rolled into one perfectly built package.

What was I thinking?

I stop pacing and clutch the edge of the sink, staring into the mirror.

He’s probably been with Angel, that blonde, and every other woman at the bar.

And then he brought me here, too.

Playboy player with no scruples.

Except …

I had been listening to my instincts. When I’m with him, my heart trusts him. Not my brain, there’s nothing logical about it. But, my heart does.

My bag buzzes, my phone vibrating inside, cutting into my thoughts.

‘Can you talk?’ Josie’s voice comes down the line when I answer. She sounds funny, strained. A glance at the screen shows patchy signal.

‘Yeah.’ Why not? I’m not planning on coming out of this toilet anytime soon. And I’d appreciate my friend’s perspective.

‘It’s all echoey. Where are you? Oh no, are you still on your dinner date?’

‘Kind of.’ I pinch the bridge of my nose. ‘We ended up in Bash.’

‘I’m not far from there. Wait, why are you talking to me? Go enjoy yourself.’

‘He’s just like all the others, Josie,’ I sigh, blinking away the misting in my eyes.

‘Who, Nate? Which others?’

‘My dad. Chloe’s dad. Shane. Peter.’ The reflection in the mirror shows my jaw set grimly as a resigned disappointment swarms through my head.

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