Texting With the Enemy: Digital Dating series #1 by Ray Marika & Stewart Delancey

Author:Ray, Marika & Stewart, Delancey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-16T00:00:00+00:00

13

Boston

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The high I was on as I walked El to her car, kissed her again, and then drove myself home to my condo lasted about twenty more minutes. Long enough to chat once more with my mother to agree that things had gone stunningly well, long enough to pour myself a beer to celebrate that I’d finally asked out the woman I wanted and that she seemed to potentially want me back, and long enough to be reminded in the most painful way possible that I’d been untruthful with her.

She still wanted to go out with Chad.

I sat in the wingback leather chair in my living room in the dark, facing the wall of windows that overlooked the river outside and stared at my phone as if it had betrayed me.

In reality, I was the one doing all the betraying. The only way to fix this was to break it off, to make the Chad problem go away.

The funny thing was that I hadn’t even talked to Chad since the festival. We saw each other once every couple months when we both had time, had a few drinks and reminisced about our childhoods. If I was honest, part of the reason I even bothered was because Chad felt like a connection to something easier in my life, to my Dad. He was part of a time when I was just a kid, when things weren’t so complicated.

But I’d never intended to pretend to be him.

I was pretty sure pretending to be someone you were not never worked out well at all.

I imagined beautiful El typing that one sad little word back to a guy she thought she had a connection with: Okay. And then I tried as hard as I could not to imagine her being sad, being disappointed.

My own disappointment at the revelation that she still wanted to see him, even after everything that had happened between us was enough.

I swallowed some beer and let my mind go to the dark places I’d keep it from visiting in the daylight. Was El the kind of woman who would play two men off one another? Was she not the sweet, kind, adorable woman I’d built her into in my mind?

I scrubbed a hand over my face, settling deeper into the comforting pressure of my chair. At least it loved me.

My phone dinged again in my hand, and my stomach lurched. Was she still hoping Chad would change his mind? I didn’t think I could take it.

But it wasn’t El.

Mom: You were wonderful tonight. Thank you so much for everything you’ve done to help me realize my dream, honey.

Well, that was nice. I started to type a reply, but Mom wasn’t done.

Mom: Also, Dalton told me you were kissing El, and I wanted to tell you that I’m behind that match three hundred percent, and so is her mother. It’s about time you let someone in.

Great. That was what I needed. My mother in the middle of it all.

Me: It was a good night, Mom.

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