Three Part Harmony by Mindy Klasky

Author:Mindy Klasky [Klasky, Mindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book View Cafe

16

Emily caught her reflection in the mirrors at Namastyle. Some day, she’d actually get Tammy to cut her hair. Even out her bangs. Trim the ends in a straight line. Maybe even do one of those color washes Anne always talked about.

But this wasn’t the day.

She headed straight for the box of white wine on the table in the back room, in the yoga studio. She would have preferred cider, of course. But any port in a storm.

And there was going to be a major storm when she filled everyone in on recent, um, developments in her life. She braced herself with a healthy swallow from her cup. The stuff wasn’t as bad as she’d thought it would be.

Before long, Anne came rushing in with Lexi Taylor. They both gave Emily a strange look. “What?” Emily asked. “Do I have something in my teeth?”

“No,” her sister said. “I’ve just never seen you get here early.”

“I’m not early!”

“Well, not late.”

“I figured I needed to fortify myself before my interrogation.”

“Speaking of which,” Megan Sartain said, putting on her best prosecutorial voice. “I believe you had a contract with this group? Four dates with one man, before the end of November? You skipped Yoga Night last week, so I assume you came up empty. Again.”

“We have a contract now?” Emily asked, even as the Purr turned over in the back of her mind. “I thought I’d just accepted a dare.”

“You’re delaying,” Megan said severely. “Should we just skip over the part where you whine and complain and tell us why things didn’t work out with whatever poor shlub you chose?”

“I don’t whine and complain!”

“So,” Megan said. “Things didn’t work out.”

As Emily spluttered, Rachel raised her glass of soda water and gave her a wicked smile. “Yeah, Emily. Tell us. Things didn’t work out?”

Well, here goes nothing.

Emily took a deep breath. Without looking anyone in the face, she said, “I sort of fit in my four dates in the four days after Thanksgiving. I’ve got December taken care of too.”

“Holy shit,” someone breathed. It sounded suspiciously like Tammy.

Before Emily could lose her nerve, she said, “Matt-Dawson-and-I-have-kind-of-sort-of-well-you-know-been-seeing-each-other.” The Purr hummed its satisfaction.

Anne recovered first. “You and Matt Dawson?”

Emily nodded.

“And you didn’t tell us at Thanksgiving?”

“Nothing had happened at Thanksgiving.”

“Then what…? How…? When…?”

Emily grinned. “Well, little sister, when a man and a woman love each other very much…”

“You’re in love with Matt Dawson?”

Wow. That was a lot more than she’d intended to say. She wasn’t in love with Matt Dawson. She couldn’t be. She was his sworn enemy. He wanted to run her business out of town, her and everyone she knew.

But after the past ten days, she was pretty seriously in like with Matt Dawson.

Lexi cut to the heart of things. “What does this mean for Save Our Stores?”

“It doesn’t change a thing.”

Rachel snorted.

“It doesn’t!” Emily insisted. “It’s not like Matt and I spend our evenings discussing business strategies.”

“I certainly hope not,” Tammy said. “During shishir, Hindu winter, people should have sex every day. The body is at its maximum sexual strength during shishir.

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