Page 138 of Getting Down to Business

Chapter 27

“How’s San Diego?” Trent asked.

“Great,” Grayson said with an enthusiasm he desperately wished were real.

“You sound so convincing.”

Gray should have known better than to try to lie to Trent.

“Tiff and I stopped by to see her.”

“How is she?” Gray asked right away. Izabelle had refused to share information with him, calling it juvenile and unhealthy.

“She’s good, I guess. She and Tiff talked about wedding shit. Liss is coming to the wedding. Are you okay with that?”

“Of course,” he snorted. It was only August, by the following June, he would be okay with it. He hoped so anyway. The pain was still as strong as it had been when he left. “Is she seeing anyone?”

“I don’t know. Tiff didn’t say.” Gray wanted to reach through the phone and strangle his best friend for not asking the right questions.

“Did she find a roommate?”

“I don’t think so. Tiff said she was packing.”

“Packing? Where is she going?”

“I don’t know. Why don’t you call her and ask?”

“Because I don’t care.” He was certain if he said it enough times eventually it would be true.

“Right. Maybe you need to move on.”

“That’s great advice coming from someone who’s getting married.”

“If you felt for Alyssa the way I feel about Tiff, no way would you have just split,” Trent said.

“What if Tiff didn’t want you? What would you have done then?”

“I would have convinced her that she did want me.”

“Whatever. I have to go.”

Grayson hadn’t so much as gone to a bar in San Diego. He didn’t want to hook up with some random woman in an effort to get rid of the pain in his heart. He knew it wouldn’t work. He only wanted Alyssa. He would only ever want her.

He had made a few friends at the new office, but they were all happily married with kids. Something he couldn’t handle quite yet. He still wanted that life.

Doug had called next. With his expenses reduced, he could now afford a new phone. Apparently, he was also able to afford a diamond ring.

“I want to be ready, you know? I want to give us plenty of time to get to know each other better. I don’t want to rush into it, but I got the ring so I’d be ready when the time was right.”

“Good for you.”

“And you’ll come back for our wedding? If she says yes?”

“She’ll say yes, and of course, I’ll be there.”

“Good.” He stalled for a moment, and Gray thought he probably knew why.

“What is it?”