Second Best by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams [Adams, Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-14T18:30:00+00:00

Seven

I really had no idea what to expect from Sean as a response to my text message.

He’d given me his phone number, but there was no reason to assume he’d just been waiting around for me to change my mind and would want to return to our Wednesday evening agreement without hesitation. I knew very well he could find another woman—for sex or for anything he wanted—without even trying. Women must have made moves on him every single day. All he would have to do is crook his finger, and they’d come running.

He could have gotten bored or annoyed or disinterested in me—even in the few days since I saw him at the ballet.

Or he might want to make me suffer a little for dropping him the way I did.

I told myself not to expect a response very quickly—if at all—but I was so on edge after sending the text that I nearly jumped out of my chair when my phone buzzed seven minutes after I sent him the message.

It was Sean.

Tonight? Usual place and time?

That was it.

Evidently, he was ready to fall right back into our old schedule as if the interruption had never happened. That was what I wanted too.

Wasn’t it?

I texted back, See you then, and tried to focus on work, but my mind kept straying to Sean and what would happen when I saw him tonight.

I didn’t get much done all day.

***

Seven hours later, I was riding up the hotel elevator, my heart pounding painfully in my chest.

I hadn’t been this nervous since the first time Sean and I had gotten together—four and a half months ago now.

Honestly, I had no idea what to expect from Sean when I entered that room, and that uncertainty was what scared me the most.

After putting on a brave face, I knocked on the door and waited until he swung the door open. Sean wore one of his regular business suits—this one a slate gray—and he wasn’t smiling.

This didn’t bode well for a comfortable encounter. I shifted from foot to foot and took a shaky breath.

Shit. What if he was annoyed by the whole thing? What if he didn’t want to waste his time with a stupid person who’d made up a man to be the love of her life?

His face relaxed into a little smile, and I immediately felt better.

“You can say I told you so if you want,” I said.

He stepped out of the way to let me in with a huff of amusement. “Do you really think I’m that kind of person?”

“Well, yeah. Isn’t everyone?”

The hotel room was perfectly neat and utterly familiar, with nothing marring the smooth surfaces except a white box on a side table and Sean’s phone lying on the table near the wine bottle and glasses. Even the smell of the room hit me with a deep sense of acquaintance. Homecoming.

It had been a full month since I’d been here, but the room hadn’t changed at all.

When I glanced over, I saw that Sean was studying my face.

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