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Laughing, she began pulling her head and leg back out. “Yeah, makes sense.”
Walking over to the back door, I opened it up, letting her inside, but as I went to shut the door behind her, I thought I’d seen some movement in the distance. Staring in the same spot, I’d seen it, a creepy sense of being watched came over me, causing the hairs on the back of my neck to rise.
“What are you looking at?” Scarlett asked, setting her hand on my shoulder, causing me to jump. “Geeze, what is with you tonight? Why are you so jumpy?”
“Nothing. Just thought I saw something moving around out there.”
“Probably just Jared, walking back to his car is all.”
“Oh... wait. Jared? What happened to Kieran?”
“I couldn’t deal with his secret trips he takes anymore, so I told him that it was over if he didn’t tell me where he was off to yesterday.”
“I’m guessing he didn’t.”
“Nope, and I’m done giving him anymore chances. The great sex is not worth all the secrecy crap he keeps pulling.”
“Well, can’t say I blame you.”
“Anyway, I’m beat. I’m going to go to bed.”
“Night.”
After she left the kitchen, I continued to stand there. I couldn’t help the sadness that overcame me, feeling yet another loss with Kieran out of the picture now.
There was nothing left in my life now that tied me to my devil.
It had been over three weeks since I’d been abruptly dumped, and I was finally starting to move past it, thinking about him a little less as the days went on. It did help that Damon, a guy who’d been a customer at the café, had asked me out last week. When I’d noticed him the first few times, I could always feel him staring at me just before I caught him. I thought it a little strange, but then when he finally approached me, he explained how he’d almost been too shy to ask. We’d been out a couple of times since that first night and were really hitting it off. There had been no intimacy past kissing and heavy petting yet, which he had been really sweet about. I just wasn’t ready for that yet and needed to move slower this time. He was nothing like Creed at all. Something I forced myself not to be bothered by. I needed to stick to the nice guy. Too many times had I’d chosen the bad ones and been made a fool of.
Tonight, Damon said that he was taking me to a really nice restaurant and told me to dress to impress. The first thing I knew I needed to do was to enlist Scarlett as my stylist for the evening. “Ok, nowthis, I think would be perfect for you.”
I walked over to look at the dress she’d pulled from the rack. “That is pretty. I’m going to go try it on.” Grabbing the dress from her, I made my way back to the dressing room area. Looking in the mirror, I was impressed with how stunning the dress looked on me. It was a Navy colored A line chiffon dress with diamond beading on the top, the bottom flowing down to just below my knees. It was a very classy looking dress.
I couldn’t stop my thoughts from drifting to what my devil would think of me in it. Shaking that thought out of my head, I shifted back to Damon and whathewould think of me in it.Hewas the one I needed to think about now.
Turning abruptly, I walked out of the dressing room, the sudden movement causing me to grab my head when I became lightheaded. “Hey, you ok?”
I did my best to shake the feeling off. “I’m fine. Just turned around too fast and got a little lightheaded.”
“When was the last time you ate anything? I’ve noticed that you’ve hardly eaten anything lately since things went bad with you and Creed.”
“I know. I’m trying. Just haven’t had much of an appetite lately.”
“Well, what do you say we go grab some lunch at the food court after this?”
“I think that sounds good. This dress is perfect.”
“It’s beautiful on you. Now let’s get it and get some food down you, so you don’t go passing out on me.”
It was just over an hour before Damon was due to pick me up and Scarlett was putting the final touches on my make-up.
“There. You look absolutely gorgeous. Some of my best work, if I do say so myself.”
Taking a look in the mirror, flashes of the last time Scarlett did my make up came flooding back. How could I possibly still miss someone so cruel; he would dump me after opening myself up to him so freely? I couldn’t get the way he looked at me the last time I saw him out of my head. He looked as though I’d betrayed him in some way, when all I did was be truthful.
Getting up to leave for her own date with Jared, she tapped my leg. “Are you sure you’re feeling better now?”
Since I’d gotten lightheaded in the dressing room today, she had asked me more than a couple of times if I was sure I was ok or told me that I looked pale. I definitely wasn’t a hundred percent better, still feeling a little off, but I tried my best to convince her so she wouldn’t worry, figuring it was just my nerves about going out to this fancy place tonight. “Much.”
