“Quit whining about how old you are and give us the dirty details. Because the date I heard about definitely wasn’t with Landen,” Lucy demanded. “In fact, I heard Landen came into the office not long after you left with a face like thunder and an attitude to match.”
I winced. How in the heck had I completely forgotten about my date with Phillip? I glanced at Tanya. “Do you know Phillip from your office?” I asked.
She nodded as she sipped her water. “Yes. He’s a nice guy until you go up against him on a case. Why do you ask?”
“He asked me out last week. We had drinks and tapas. He is nice but we just didn’t…click, you know? I like him but there wasn’t much of a spark there.”
It was Lucy who spoke next. “So how did you go from a date withPhillipthe lawyer to Landen Weber? And when?”
I sighed. “It’s complicated.” And I really,trulydidn’t want to get into it with her at the moment.
“Well, we’ll be here for a while, so get started,” Lucy demanded.
“Lucy…”
“I tell you everything,” she pointed out.
I scoffed. “I know and I repeatedly ask you not to since Chris is now my boss and Ido notneed to know the intimate details of his sex life.”
She scowled at me. “You were my friend before you were his employee. I’m allowed to talk about my love life with one of my best friends. But quit trying to change the subject. How in the hell did you end up going out on a date with Landen Weber?”
I took a sizeable sip of my mimosa and wondered where in the heck Adam was with my Bloody Mary. Finally, I decided to get it over with. I would have to talk about it at some point and now was as good a time as any. “He kissed me at your wedding a few weeks ago. I thought it was a drunken fluke, but he tracked me down while you and Chris were on your honeymoon and asked me to dinner.”
“Tracked you down?” Yancy asked, disbelief ripe in her voice. “Were you avoiding him?”
I was saved from answering by Adam’s arrival with my erstwhile Bloody Mary. I thanked him profusely and lifted the glass to my lips.
“Are you going to answer me?” Yancy prodded.
I shrugged and drank more of the Bloody Mary. “Yes. I wasn’t sure what to say to him and I wanted to have my thoughts together before we spoke again.”
“How was the dinner?” Lucy asked.
“Good.” I stopped and cleared my throat. “Actually, it was excellent. It was one of the best first dates I’ve been on.”
Lucy’s brows rose. “Why didn’t you mention it?”
Yancy, who was sitting next to me, poured me a mimosa and handed me the glass with a sympathetic glance. I knew she wasn’t doing it just to be helpful though. The sneaky wench was going to try to get me drunk so I would spill.
Taking a sip, I sighed and put the glass down next to my plate. “Because he ghosted me.”
So I told them the story. How he’d vanished for over a week only to reappear just in time to see me leave the office for my date with Phillip. How he called me later that night to apologize and begged me for another chance. Okay, so I exaggerated that part and it was clear by Lucy’s knowing glance that she didn’t believe me.
Before I could continue, Tanya interrupted. “I can’t believe he did that and you still gave him the time of day. That’s not like you.”
It wasn’t like me. Normally, I would have written a man off after that, but I couldn’t tell them why. Though Landen hadn’t asked me for secrecy, I felt discretion was the best option.
“He explained what happened,” I said carefully. “And he apologized. I didn’t let him off easy. At all.”
“He actually apologized?” Lucy asked.
I nodded. “He did. Twice.”
Her brows raised. She’d dealt with Landen while she worked for Chris, so she knew what a big deal that was. The man was not big on apologizing. “Wow.”
“Yeah, it surprised me too,” I stated. “But he took me for a picnic yesterday and he even bought me a kite.” A kite that was hanging on the wall in my bedroom almost like a piece of art. I’d spent an inordinate amount of time staring at it last night before I fell asleep, thinking about how much fun I’d had with him that day.
“A kite?” Yancy repeated, looking confused.
