This is Love by Kim Hartfield

Author:Kim Hartfield [Hartfield, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Writer
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2018-10-15T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Ella takes Abby to a gay bar they’d never been to before.

“I found this one online,” Ella says excitedly as their Uber pulls into the parking lot. “It’s got great reviews. A lot of five stars.”

Like it’s some cookie recipe from Granny’s digital kitchen? Abby thinks bitterly. ‘Five stars—great for sharing!’

Please.

Abby gets out of the Uber anyway with a big, fake smile on her face.

“Don’t do that,” Ella chides. “You look like a serial killer.”

The smile drops. “Thanks,” Abby says sarcastically. “What would I do without you?”

They go into the bar. The music is loud. It just pounds through the speakers and makes the whole place shake. As soon as Abby gets through the door, she’s miserable. But Ella is not. Ella looks like she’s a kid in a candy store. “She’s cute,” Ella says, and she points to a tall blonde. Then she makes a squeaking sound and points to another one. “Oh god, but so is she.”

“Uh-huh,” Abby says absently, and she does a double-take when she thinks she sees Zara.

Stop it, she scolds herself. Stop it right now.

Zara’s not here. She’s at home. Probably. Or she’s gone out. Doesn’t matter. All that matters is that she’s not here. That’s not her dancing with some woman across the room, and that’s not her tending bar. And it’s definitely not her standing at a table with a drink in her hand giving Abby a smoldering look.

“That girl’s staring right at you,” Ella observes.

And Abby knows that. But Abby doesn’t care.

Until she thinks of her looming deadline—the one that’s horribly close since it’s already the beginning of October—and her stomach turns into a knot.

Then she cares.

Not about the girl. Not about the fact that she’s getting checked out. But about her career. Her future.

Abby bucks up. She straightens her back and holds her head high. She forces a smile again. This one’s a little less disastrous than the one she had on before. “I’m gonna go say hi,” she tells Ella, and she tries not to let the internal misery seep through as she walks on over. She tries not to think about how much more she’d prefer to sit all cozied up on the couch watching Netflix with a certain neighbor than to say hi to this random girl, but hey. This girl’s here. And Abby’s got a book to finish.

“Hey, there,” she says. Okay, weak line. Abby swallows. “I mean—hi. What are you drinking?”

The girl smiles. She’s pretty enough, Abby can admit. She’s got dark hair, like Zara, but it’s pulled back in a long ponytail, unlike Zara. “Sex on the Beach,” she answers.

“Sex on the Beach, huh?” Abby can’t help but laugh. Well, that’s an easy opener if she’s ever heard one. “How’d you like to have sex at my place instead?” she says.

Ponytail girl laughs with Abby. “Funny,” she says, and she takes it as a joke, though Abby only partly meant it that way. “Want to try it?” She holds the drink out, straw to Abby.

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