CHAPTER 1

Morgan Davis

“For fuck’s sake, when was the final time you bought laid?” Zara teased me, her eyes twinkling mischievously over the rim of her iced latte. She lifted her eyebrows up and down just a few occasions very suggestively, and my mouth dropped vast open in disbelief.

I felt my cheeks warmth up, a heat flush spreading throughout my face sooner than a blazing wildfire. “Zara! You’ll be able to’t simply ask that out loud in a espresso store,” I hissed, glancing round to ensure nobody was eavesdropping on our dialog. She at all times had a flare for the dramatic, and he or she by no means handed up a possibility to make me blush.

It was like her superpower.

For no matter cause, she thought it constructed character. I disagreed, however that didn’t save me from moments like these. Nonetheless, I cherished her. She was my greatest good friend and had been by all of it with me, from one break as much as the subsequent, to my perpetually impending single-dom.

“Oh please, Morgan,” she waved off my concern with a flick of her completely manicured hand, “we reside in Seattle, not a fucking nunnery. In addition to, don’t assume I don’t see the way you’re dodging the query. Now kindly reply, please and thanks.”

I sighed, stirring my espresso absentmindedly. “You realize I’ve been too swamped with work. And after the entire debacle with Mr. No-Lengthy-Distance-Asshat, I’m not precisely dashing to leap again into the relationship pool.”

Zara rolled her eyes dramatically. “You imply after Mr. ‘I-can’t-handle-a-few-thousand-miles’ bailed on you the day he was imagined to fly out? Woman, that was ages in the past. Okay. Possibly solely two weeks in the past, however you want to leap again on the horse. Or, , somebody who resembles one. Or perhaps you simply want a tough trip… No matter. You realize what I imply.”

I couldn’t assist however chortle, shaking my head. “Your metaphors want just a little work. And it’s not like I haven’t considered it. It’s simply…”

“Simply what?” Zara leaned in, her expression out of the blue turning severe. “Morgan, come on, you moved throughout the nation to start out your organization, Davis Media Relations, and that’s no small feat. You’ve constructed one thing superb right here. However this,” she gestured at me with a flourish, “isn’t residing. You’re employed so fucking arduous. You want enjoyable, pleasure, perhaps a steamy fling or two or ten. You realize, you actually deserve it.”

Part of me hated that I believed she was proper. She’d spent all morning pestering me to tug myself away from work for brunch as a result of we hadn’t seen one another in ages. I had been swamped with my most up-to-date shopper. PR disasters didn’t await anyone. I’d had a little bit of a clusterfuck happening since Thursday, and it confirmed no indicators of letting up.

Even now, I used to be apprehensive about it.

I bit my lip, mulling over her phrases in my head. “I do know, I do know. It’s simply arduous to consider relationship. Each time I do, I simply keep in mind how he known as, actually as his flight was boarding, simply to say he couldn’t do long-distance, and he wasn’t coming in spite of everything. It felt like such a slap within the face, particularly after all of the planning and the build-up with the silly ring and the three years I wasted on his dick face.”

Zara reached throughout the desk, squeezing my hand. “I do know it hurts, however that’s all of the extra cause to maneuver on. You want somebody who appreciates how unimaginable you might be, somebody who received’t get chilly ft simply due to just a little—okay, a number of—distance.”

I smiled, feeling a surge of gratitude for my good friend. She at all times knew what to say to make me really feel higher.

“Thanks, Zara. I don’t know what I’d do with out you,” I mentioned, and I meant each phrase.

She grinned, releasing my hand. “In all probability flip right into a hermit and undertake six extra cats. However don’t fear, I received’t let that occur. Now, let’s speak technique. There’s a complete metropolis of potentials on the market, and we’re going to search out you somebody who’s worthy of the superb Morgan Davis.”

I laughed, the sound mingling with the clatter of cups and the delicate hum of dialog throughout us. A person shut by heard me chortle and regarded my manner, however I didn’t pay him any thoughts. I used to be an excessive amount of in my head to care.

Possibly she was proper. Possibly it was time to place my ex-fiancé up to now and see what Seattle really needed to provide.

“In any case, what’s the worst that might occur?” I didn’t know why I mentioned that out loud… Possibly as a result of I used to be an fool.

These have been well-known final phrases, weren’t they…? Anytime anybody mentioned that within the motion pictures, one thing dangerous at all times occurred, however that wasn’t actual life, proper?

Zara cleared her throat and leveled me with a figuring out look. I instantly obtained a foul feeling about no matter she was about to say. I opened my mouth to immediately renege on what I’d mentioned, however she beat me to the punch first.

“I’m pondering rapid motion is required, and I’ve the right answer. You and I are going out tonight, and earlier than you even consider protesting, I’m not taking no for a solution.” Zara wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.

Fuck…

I raised an eyebrow, a mixture of amusement and apprehension swirling inside me. This might both go very well, or actually, actually badly.

In all probability actually badly…

“Zara, I don’t know. The final time you mentioned that, I obtained so tipsy that I ended up on stage at a karaoke bar singing ‘I Will Survive’ in entrance of a crowd of poor, unsuspecting strangers.”

“And also you killed it,” Zara shot again with a smile. “In addition to, tonight shall be totally different. Suppose much less public humiliation, extra scouting for potential Mr. Proper… or a minimum of Mr. Dick-Me-Down-Proper-Now.”

I couldn’t suppress a giggle. “I’m unsure my singing or my love life wants that form of publicity once more.”

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