The One & Only (A Clean Billionaire Romance) (The One Love Book 1) by Maria La Serra

Author:Maria La Serra [La Serra, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Maria La Serra
Published: 2019-03-07T16:00:00+00:00

The best way to get people to stop asking if you’re dating someone is to meet them with humor. Tell them you’re in a fully-committed relationship with yourself.

“How to Get People to Stop Asking If You’re Dating Anyone”

by Staci Cortés

12

Staci

“Rosita just got engaged, and she’s three years younger than you,” my abuela said.

Yay! Another wedding.

First Rachel, now Rosita. I hoped my cousin Rosita didn’t ask me to be one of her bridesmaids. I mean, I loved the girl, but there’s only so many peach-colored dresses a woman can have in her wardrobe.

“I thought you should know, just in case you wanted to bring a date,” she said, her eyes peering at me through her cat-shaped reading glasses. “A year should be enough time to find one, no?” Her red lips—the way they twitched on the sides made me think she wasn’t done with me yet. As much as I love how my abuela throws out these offhand comments while sitting there, smiling so innocently, I decided it was best not to engage.

I knew what she was thinking—the question. The one I had been taunted with since Luis had broken up with me. The one I had been asked at every family occasion, dinner, wedding, and even at funerals. Why are you single? Followed up with, How’s that possible when you’re a relationship columnist?

It was ironic, I know, but being single didn’t mean I was less qualified to do my job. Did chefs, after twelve-plus hours, go home and create masterful recipes? Probably not. It was the same for me. I wrote and thought about relationships for eight hours a day. The last thing on my mind is to want a relationship or fantasize about kissing Greg. Maybe it’d happened … once or twice in an hour, but whatever, no biggie.

It was moments like these I wished I were a man. Life was more comfortable for a guy. They didn’t get judged for being single. If you were a woman close to thirty with no prospects of marriage in sight, well, there was something wrong with you.

I hate double standards.

So my career, like my grandmother believed, was a man repeller because men didn’t like an independent woman.

“I’m happy for her. I’ll call Rosita later to congratulate her on the happy news,” I said to my abuela sitting across from my parents’ dinner table.

I felt my stomach twist. It was bad enough I would be dateless to my cousin Rachel’s wedding that was coming up in less than a month. Now, I have a year’s worth of torture coming my way.

“So, what are you waiting for?” my grandmother asked me in her Cuban accent.

“Well, I had my eye on the Prince of Wales, but he’s married now, so I guess I’m stuck going to the wedding alone.” I shrugged, watching my mother shift in her chair.

Oh, she’s just itching to get into the action.

“It’s not a joke, mi hija. What do you think you are? Benjamin Button?” My mother’s eyes scanned my face.

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