AllFreeNovel
Share Us
A Night In
Chloe
Seattle, Washington
17 weeks, 5 days pregnant
Kristin: Can I get a raincheck on our meet-up at the creamery tonight? My engineer is out sick, so I have to run the show myself. Cheers to an all-nighter. :-(
Madison: Gah! I was going to ask for the same thing. My top client came in with a bunch of her teenage daughter’s friends. You know they always overstay their welcome and dance on all my chairs.
Kristin: Don’t they pay you triple per scoop because of that, though?
Madison:You want this raincheck or not?
Kristin:LOL. Chloe, confirm when you see this, please.
Stepping out of the shower, I pulled on one of Tyler’s T-shirts and sighed as I made my way to the living room. I’d been looking forward to having a night with them all week.
I confirmed that it was canceled and set my phone down in the kitchen.
I pulled all the shades open and reveled in Seattle’s night lights, watching ferries leave surface waves across the ocean as they moved across the water.
I guess this is as close as I’ll get to going out tonight…
Grabbing a blanket, I plopped onto the couch and turned on the television.
“I thought you were hanging out with your friends.” Tyler was suddenly standing in the doorway, shirtless and in grey sweatpants. “I was looking forward to watching you leave.”
“So you can have the condo to yourself?”
“No.” He stepped closer. “So I could get a glimpse of you in one of those designer dresses you bought.”
“I was planning to wear a coat over it on my way out.”
“I would’ve pulled it off you.” He smiled.
“I almost considered going someplace alone, but my children’s father is a psycho who might lose it if I even say ‘Hello’ to another guy on the way there.”
“Good to see this level of progress from you.” He sat next to me. “You don’t have any college associates to go out with?”
“Not in this city. I went to school in Florida.”
“Florida.” He tasted the state on his tongue. “Isn’t it almost always sunny there?”
I nodded.
“Why would you ever trade that in for nonstop rain?”
“It was for publishing, something I enjoyed.” I paused as he adjusted the pillow behind my head. “I got job offers in New York, but something told me to choose the West Coast.”
He nodded, but he didn’t say anything else.
“Not that you care, but when I first looked you up, I found a rumor thread about you and your younger brother.”
“What was it?”
“A long running theory on how you and him once had a crush on the same housekeeper. Is that true?”
