Page 13 of Reborn to Love You

“I love having coffee here in the morning.”

Payton kept smiling. “I can just imagine.” And it was rather easy to imagine, with all the photos Eric posted on social media. #coffee and #work were his favorite hashtags. But those photos would always make it clear that he was taking it from the private terrace of his corner office.

“Oh, don’t just imagine. You should take a closer look. I like how it makes me a little dizzy when I look down and see how far I am from the ground.”

“Um, actually...”

“Come on, don’t be a killjoy.”

Payton was startled when Rosé gave her a little push.

“I’m not good—”

The other girl gave her another push, a stronger one this time, and Payton’s stomach started cramping again.

“Just go and take a look.”

“Stop this—” Payton’s heart was pounding hard. Her whole life, she had always been the pushover type. It hurt to admit this, but it was time she stopped lying to herself about how weak she was.

“And if I don’t stop?”

Rosé shoved her hard this time.

Oh, that does it!

The moment the other girl tried shoving her again, Payton was ready, and so...she jumped to the side.

Because duh, she was thirty-one, not thirteen, and so it was never about engaging in conflicts—

“Can we just talk about this first?”

But instead, she would try to be mature about this, as women of her age should.

“Because we both know what this is about—”

Okaaay.

That actually had Rosé stopping and laughing.

“No, I doubt you do.”

And now, it was Payton’s turn to stop. Well, mentally that was, since those words seemed to imply like she didn’t have what it to take to face her problems head-on, and maybe...

“We both know this is about Eric.”

Maybe that was true for the old Payton, but not anymore.

“And that’s...that’s what I want to talk to you about. I...know about Eric’s money problems—”

“So what if you do?”

“I thought we could work something out. T-The three of us.”

Rosé’s lip curled. “How nice of you.”

“I just don’t want this to be...ugly. If Eric is really choosing you—”

Rosé threw her head back with a laugh, but when she looked at Payton again—