AllFreeNovel
Share Us
She smiled ear to ear.
My eyes grew wide.
I felt a white light suddenly hit me.
I slowly looked down to find my seat number.
I blinked fast.
I was in seat sixty-nine.
Meaning I just won a date with Atlas.
Chapter Five
ATLAS
Even from my distance,I saw the look on her face.
Pure shock. Utter surprise. Intense panic.
A lot of hatred for the woman sitting next to her.
I assumed this had been one of those kind of situations where the best friend set up the other one, thinking it was what she needed.
Great. As if this entire thing can’t get any worse. Now I’m going to have some woman up here who clearly does not want to be up here. Who clearly does not want to be near me. And I feel the same about her.
Then again, when I saw the so-calledlucky womanstep out into the aisle, my left eyebrow jumped up for a second.
The color of her dress, so dark red it almost looked black.
Legs, hips, a few more interesting curves that definitely caught my attention.
A nice dress, not meant to show off anything more than what would show in a pair of jeans.
I wasn’t sure why I liked that but I did.
Her hair messy, but in a quick put together way.
A far cry from the rich people around me who probably paid triple to have personal hair stylists come to their houses to do their hair.
“Come on up here!” Ellen’s voice boomed next to me.
This woman really wanted nothing to do with the event.
And for that I really did like her.
I felt someone elbow me.
My head turned to the right and Ellen stared at me, smiling.
“Make it enjoyable for her,” Ellen growled.
I felt like growling back that I would breach my fucking hockey contract with her husband’s failure of a hockey team and jump ship across the world to play hockey for another country.
“Atlas,” Ellen said. “This is important to me.”
Not that I needed to give a shit about Ellen’s feelings…
