While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory

Author:Jasmine Guillory [Guillory, Jasmine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Ben slowly got dressed the next morning before work. Would today be the last time he’d ever see Anna in person? Probably. Almost definitely, he was pretty sure.

She’d been weird yesterday. Not in the morning, not during and after their great suitcase caper through the streets of San Francisco. But afterward, when they’d both been at the shoot. He knew that obviously they couldn’t let anyone know they were sleeping together—or had slept together? He wished he knew.

Probably the latter, because she’d barely looked at him all day. Before—before Palm Springs—they’d been friendly on set, laughing and joking around sometimes, or even just smiling at each other when something funny happened. Even after Palm Springs, even though Anna had kind of avoided him on set when she was around him, she’d treated him like nothing had ever happened between them, like they hadn’t taken two long drives where they talked about their families and relationships and struggles—well, mostly she had, but still—and had a night and morning of fucking fantastic sex. That she’d been able to go back to treating him exactly the same as before had stung, even though he’d understood why she’d done it, and he’d tried—and, he’d thought, mostly succeeded—to treat her the same as he had before, too.

But the day before, he’d arrived on set expecting her to have a shared twinkle in her eye with him when they saw each other for the first time after the great suitcase adventure; but she’d barely even glanced at him when he’d walked into the room, and had gone right back to responding to whatever her hairstylist was saying. He’d tried to catch her eye a few times throughout the day, even though he knew he shouldn’t, but nothing worked. Did she not want him to assume they’d see each other again—alone—before she went back to L.A.? If that was the case, fine, he was clear on where she stood, but did she really have to ice him out like this? Despite . . . everything, he’d thought they were friends.

He’d almost texted her when he got home the night before. He’d gone so far as to pull up her name on his phone. Their last texts had been the suitcase pictures that Maddie had taken in the hotel lobby—he and Theo both looked like they were desperately trying to keep straight faces, which was accurate, and you could just barely see the flash of Anna’s yellow dress from the side of the suitcase where they’d left the zipper open a bit so she could breathe.

But he hadn’t done it. Anna had so far made it very clear when she wanted him—he wouldn’t push her.

When he got to the set, he told himself he wasn’t going to look around for her, but he did it anyway. She was over at the coffee table, filling up her cup and laughing and chatting with the caterers. Why did she have to be so fucking nice to everyone? This would be

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