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“Good for you. This is cause for a celebration.”
“Kelsia!”
“Seriously, girl. After what’s his name left you, I really thought you were not going to get over him. You said something like taking a break from all men, didn’t you?”
“That’s true,” Jen said as she took a sip of her coffee, staring out of the window in the café. “I did say that.”
“Well, every cloud has a silver lining, girl. If you didn’t have that ugly break-up and lose your job…honey, you would’ve never met Mr. Right.”
Jen gave Kelsia an appreciative smile. What she said was so true about the silver lining. Blake was her silver lining. So was working at the flower shop. She couldn’t wait for Blake to call her tonight.
At nine o’clock in the evening, Jen sat by the phone in the living room as she watched an episode of The Bachelor. Speaking of bachelors…why hadn’t Blake called her? She resisted the urge to try his cell phone or his office in case he was working late. Perhaps she shouldn’t have taken it so literally when he said he would call her later. God, what was with her? She was crazy about this man and she really didn’t know if he was just as crazy about her. She thought he was but maybe she was wrong.
Damn Blake!
By eleven o’clock at night Jen scrolled down her call display to see all the calls she may have missed that day. None was from Blake. Had he forgotten about her already? Okay, it was only fourteen hours since she last saw him but that seemed like an awful long time.
Damn you, Blake! Why don’t you call?
Jen spent the night tossing and turning, unable to sleep. What a contrast to last night when Blake and she had made passionate love over and over again. Why hadn’t he called her? How on earth was she going to go to work tomorrow with a cheerful smile on her face knowing that Blake hadn’t even tried to get a hold of her?
By morning, Jen woke up deflated. She got dressed and skipped breakfast and headed out to the flower shop to work. She was not going to be the one to call him first. The last thing she wanted to do was come off as desperate. Maybe she was wrong about him, after all.
“Good morning, Mr. Myers,” Jen said as she walked into the flower shop.
“Hey, Jen. Good to see you bright and early. Is everything okay?”
Jen flushed. Was it that obvious? Did she have the look of disappointment or rejection on her face. “Um, yeah. Of course. Just a little tired.”
“Oh?” he looked puzzled. This was the first time she didn’t feel a hundred percent when she came in to work. What could she say? That she’d flirted with and slept with the store’s richest client and he hadn’t even called her back? Jen felt empty and rejected. She was definitely going to swear off men for a long time now. She didn’t want to build up her hopes that he would call so she tried to shrug it off.
Jen had secretly hoped that Blake would step through the doors of the flower shop today but she had no such luck. With every ring of the door chime, her heart turned over in anticipation that it would be him. But she was disappointed every time.
By eight o’clock in the evening she started to clean up to get ready for closing the shop. She’d had her last customer at seven o’clock and it had been quiet since. She ended up working a full day today instead of half a day since the other part-time store clerk had an emergency.
When Jen went outside and locked the door of the store, she turned around and was stunned.
It was Blake, leaning against his Ferrari looking breathtaking. A grin touched the corner of his lips. His hands shoved in the pockets of his suit.
“Blake! What are you doing here?” Jen’s heart flip flopped in her chest.
“I couldn’t wait to see you. I wanted to pick you up from work.”
Jen smiled but she became puzzled. Why hadn’t he called?
“I’m sorry I didn’t get back to you yesterday,” he said as he opened up the passenger side of his car to let her in.
“Nice ride.”
“It gets me around,” he said matter-of-factly.
“So I guess you were tied up with business.”
“No.”
“No?” she echoed, surprised.
