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She lifted her shoulder. “They’ve become my little addiction. Call out if you need anything else.”
Courtney left the table, but she didn’t head behind the counter. Instead, she walked up to one of the Blue Halo men. Fiona’s heart melted as she watched the couple lean into each other and kiss. Adorable.
“Oh my gosh, look at you.”
She swung her gaze back to Jenny. “What?”
“You’ve got that ready-to-fall-in-love look on your face. Just ask him out already.”
“I do not. And definitely not with Callum. Remember, I need—”
“Short, chubby and bald. Yeah, yeah.”
She laughed. Jenny clearly didn’t believe her.
“I hate this guy who hurt you. I want to kick him in the teeth, and I don’t even know him.”
Fiona scoffed. “Trust me, you’re not the only one.”
She wishedshe’dkicked him in the teeth the moment she’d found him in bed with her sister, but the shock had taken hold of her body and all she’d been able to do was stare at them, mouth open like a gaping fish, before turning and walking out.
“But,” Fiona said, refusing to feel down about a past she had no control over, “it brought me here, so it can’t have been all bad.”
“And if you hadn’t come here, we would never have found each other.”
“What a tragedy that would have been.”
“Exactly.” Jenny took one more sip of her coffee before rising. “I’m just going to the bathroom real quick.”
She had just left the table when Amanda texted again.
Amanda: You have until tonight, or I’m going to assume you don’t have a date.
Fiona closed her eyes, then with a resigned sigh, opened them and started typing a response. She was halfway through her epic, fictional breakup story when the phone rang. Oh, man…it was her mother.
Fiona groaned. First Stacey, and now her sister had set their mom on her.
“Hi, Mom.”
“Hi, baby. It’s so nice to hear your voice. I miss you.”
Her chest tightened. “I miss you too, Mom.”
And she really did. She’d moved to get away from Amanda and Freddie, but the distance between her and her parents had been unfortunate collateral damage.
“I was just talking to your sister,” her mother started. Fiona massaged her brow. “And she asked me to call about your plus-one.”
“I was just responding to her when you called.”
“Oh, good.” Relief was heavy in her mother’s voice. “She suggested he wasn’t real, but I told her you would never lie about that. I know things are…complicated, with her marrying Freddie.”
Complicated? They were more than that. But her parents didn’t know she’d found them in bed together. When her sister and Freddie had come out as dating a few weeks later, her parents had been utterly shocked and more than a little stressed. She loved her mother and father, plus her dad had some health issues…so she’d lied again. Told them she was fine with it and happy for them.
Then they’d gotten engaged…
“I’m sorry this will be difficult for you. I tried speaking to her about it being too soon after you and Freddie split, but…” But her sister was a selfish bitch? “I don’t think she understood the issue.”
Of course she didn’t. Amanda only ever thought about Amanda. “I’m okay, Mom.”
