Smiling into his cup, he thanked the server for the plate of food appearing in front of him. He was several bites in when Lisa replied.
Lisa:
Lisa: I’ll tell Nina soon.
Lisa: I’ll make it casual.
Jesus, she was cute as fuck.
He didn’t mind her keeping him a secret.
So he told her so.
Splice: I’ll be your dirty little secret for now.
As he’d known, no reply came after that.
Splice was pleased with how his day had gone. He’d established a connection with Lisa again, and she hadn’t rejected it.
There was no game plan; he’d rarely gone into dating any woman with a plan, but this was Lisa Wolfe, the woman who’d once ruled over his heart, the woman who’d broken it, too. There were no lingering hard feelings on his part. However, he’d been curious why she’d dropped him the way she had.
But something had brought her into his world once more.
He’d be a fool not to act on it.
Even if it was only to be friendly with her.
Remember how you jotted down her wish list and stared at it like a goof, trying to figure out how to make it happen?A voice mocked in his head and Splice shoved food into his piehole to shut the voice up. He wasn’t lacking in self-awareness; he’d known what he was doing.
All he knew was that Lisa had been difficult to forget.
And now she was back.
Splice paid attention to his gut feelings.
His instincts urged him to get close to her again, by any means and in any form she might accept.
TWELVE
Lisa
That night, while Lisa sat curled up on her linen couch, with a pint of melting ice cream on the coffee table, she laughed at yet another message popping through in the girls’ chat thread.
It had started with Monroe begging for ideas on how to bring on labor. Then it snowballed into other topics, as it mostly always did. She loved that they included her.
Casey: Lisa! How do I say: “Go screw the goats because you’re not sleeping in my bed tonight?” in another language?
Monroe: Hahahaha!
Nina:
Scarlett: LMAO – what did Denver do? He’s such a sweet guy!
Aurora: Not the goats, Casey!
Lisa:
Kylie: What a way to join the chat.
