He Falls Harder by Melody Rush EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Melody Rush
- Language: English
- Genre: Popular Music
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Allison
Rude. I’m looking at my bank account on my phone, and the number of
dollars staring back at me is just plain rude. If I have to subsist on one
more packet of ramen this week, I might actually turn into a noodle. But as
I step up to the counter at Java Jive, I plaster on a smile.
“Three large coffees, please. And don’t forget the dash of cinnamon in
mine.”
“Of course,” the barista says, because she’s seen me here often enough to
know my peculiar preferences.
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My eyes dart between the barista’s swift hands and the damning total
inching up on the register. I hand over my debit card, praying to every deity
known to humanity (and a few unknown ones, too). The machine beeps,
and I exhale as the transaction approves. Small mercies, I guess.
“Here we go, ladies,” I announce, returning to the table where Elizabeth
and Cora are deep in conversation. They stop talking as I slide into my seat,
making sure not to spill a single drop of our precious perky bean juice.
“Thanks, Allison.” Cora wraps her hands around the warm cup.
“Anytime,” I say, though my insides are screaming, ‘Please, not anytime
soon.’ I pause to take in the sweet scent of my cinnamon-spiked coffee,
silently counting out a few seconds before I take a gulp, the spice tingling
my tongue.
In my head, I’m rehearsing every possible deflection for when the
conversation inevitably swings toward work. Ever since I quit my podcast,
funds have been tighter than my skinny jeans in high school. If my friends
knew how my career is hanging by a thread, if they started prodding about
why I really left the podcast… Well, I’d rather not go there and ruin their
perfectly good moods.
“Everything okay with you?” Elizabeth asks, her blue eyes perceptive as
ever. Damn her intuition.
“Couldn’t be better,” I lie smoothly. I brush my hands through my blonde
waves, trying to appear as relaxed as a person can be when their financial
life resembles a dumpster fire.
“Did your phone just vibrate?” I ask Cora, nodding toward her purse
where her cell screen is flickering.
“Uh, yeah.” Cora hesitates, her fingers fumbling as they reach for the
device. “It’s just Mike.”
“Mike?” My eyebrows do a quick tango up my forehead. “Hold the press
—who’s Mike?”
She sips her coffee, her cheeks blooming with color. “Oh, uh, Mike’s just
this guy I’ve been seeing.” Her words tiptoe out like she’s afraid they’d be
critiqued for grammar. And to Cora, there’s nothing more terrifying than
someone who’s even more of a grammar stickler than she is catching her in
an error.
“Wait, wait, rewind and play again.” I lean in. My Cora-radar must be on
the fritz. How did I miss this? “You’re dating? And I’m only hearing about
this now?”
Cora bites her lip, glancing at Lizzy for support. “We’re sort of keeping it
on the down-low.”
“From you, anyway,” Elizabeth murmurs through her teeth as she raises
her cup to her mouth.
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