Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 68500 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 343(@200wpm)___ 274(@250wpm)___ 228(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 68500 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 343(@200wpm)___ 274(@250wpm)___ 228(@300wpm)
“I don’t know…” she said as she looked at me.
In an act of desperation, I leaned forward and ripped my shirt over my head. “There, now we’re even.”
Her eyes were super wide, but instead of staring at her as she came up with a decision, I turned my attention back to the TV to act like her coming to my bed wasn’t a big deal. Clothed or not.
I pressed power on the television, and then I scrolled through Netflix until we both settled on Heartland.
Of course, the first fuckin’ episode, the mom died.
Which only helped put me in a bad mood all over again.
Sensing this, she’d changed the show to something new, a K drama that actually was quite cute and endearing.
Throughout the four shows that we watched, she crept closer and closer to me until she was all but pressed up against me.
In one brave move, I put my arm around her shoulders and tugged her into me, causing her to snuggle in tight.
That was, of course, when there was a knock at my door.
“Oh, no.” Val scrambled out of bed, grabbing up a pair of my sweatpants off the floor. There was a mustard stain on the left ass cheek where I’d wiped my hands one day last week. “I forgot I told Vicky she could call me so we could get your living room set to straights. I left my phone in my car.”
I followed behind her, shirtless, and leaned my shoulder up against the banister of the stairs as I looked on.
She yanked open the door, had an apology on the tip of her tongue, and bit it off when she saw who was on the other side.
Tammy.
Tammy pushed through the door with a flourish and said, “Move, bitch.”
Anger coursed through me at the way Tammy called Val an ugly name after she’d just done so much for me over the last half a day.
“Tammy,” I said quietly. “What are you doing here?”
Tammy looked shocked that I’d even ask that. Absolutely shocked.
And pissed.
“What am I doing here?” she questioned, surprised by my curt response to her arrival. “I’m your best friend!”
She was my only friend.
There was a difference between best friend and only friend.
One didn’t make her the other.
“I know that I asked Val to relay to you that I need time.” I lifted a hand and rubbed my head. “Do you mind giving that to me?”
Tammy blinked.
But before she could add anything to my request, like a big fat ‘no,’ I left the room, hoping that Val could deal with Tammy.
I just didn’t have the brain power or the desire to deal with anything else right then.
Not a single damn thing.
CHAPTER 14
Once in a while, someone amazing comes along. And here I am.
-text from Val to Felix
VAL
To say that I was flabbergasted by Felix leaving after delivering that parting comment would be an understatement.
Tammy obviously felt the same way, because she was mid-word, ready to rip into him, when he turned his back and left the room.
She hadn’t expected his response any more than I had.
“I can’t believe…” she said as she stared, for a solid five minutes, at the hallway he’d disappeared down. “I went through all that trouble to get his information from HR, since you wouldn’t give it to me, and bam. He asks me to leave!”
That only served to piss me off.
The fact that she went to HR was absolutely ridiculous.
What was even more ridiculous was that human resources actually gave her the information.
That wasn’t how this worked.
You didn’t give out an address to someone else’s place under any circumstance, no matter what kind of sob story was fed to you.
“He did ask you not to come,” I pointed out, trying to rein in my annoyance at her and her ability to ruin just about anything.
Especially a good time where I was cuddled up to Felix, and we pretended that our world had never changed.
“I didn’t ask you,” she hissed, crossing her arms.
I crossed my own, causing her to notice that my breasts were unbound.
I’d taken my bra and underwear off in the bathroom, intending to put them back on when I was done with my shower, but like old times, I’d forgotten how messy Felix was when he was first out of the shower.
There was barely a dry spot in the entire bathroom, and my bra, underwear, and sweatpants had found their own puddles to fall into.
“No, you didn’t. Or I would’ve reiterated that he needed some time,” I pointed out. “Thank you for stopping by, but he really does need some space right now.”
“And you’re allowed to be in that space?” she snarled, eyes flaring.
She really didn’t like that I was here, and that he was choosing me to lean on.
It made me feel ten feet tall, though.
“Apparently, seeing as I’m here and you’re not,” I said. “I’ll walk you out to your car. I have to get my phone out of my car anyway.”