Page 65 of Tormented Billionaire Romance Series

“He better not be seeing someone if he's interested in you.”

“Laura, come on. Just tell me.”

“He might be seeing someone soon.” She winked and nudged me playfully. “There is that wedding coming up.”

I turned away from her while turning about fifty different shades of red. I grabbed a few squash from the stand, not bothering to inspect them as I had the other produce we had collected. I paid the vendor and briskly walked the end of the aisle where we turned right to head down a new aisle.

Laura caught up to me. “You can't run away from your feelings forever.”

“I'm not running away. I'm just considering what this might mean objectively.”

“This isn't an interior design project, Clara. You can't plan your way around it.”

I laughed. “I mean, I could if I wanted.”

“But that wouldn't make it any fun. It would just make it work.”

“There are plenty of drawbacks to seeing Levon again. Namely, the entire reason why we initially broke up.”

“But what if he stayed in town? Would you consider him then?”

I stopped in front of a cherry stand. “You think he would do that?”

“I mean, anything can happen. It's a wedding, right?”

“He's not going to make that decision overnight. It'll take him forever to think about it and he'll still follow his job at the end of the day.”

“Sure, he might do that,” she posited. “But what if he didn't?”

I fanned myself. “It's hot out here. Are you almost done collecting?”

“We can walk down this aisle and then head out if you want.”

“Yeah, that would be good. I'm getting dehydrated.”

“We did say Levon as ahottopic.”

I swatted her arm playfully. “Your puns are the worst, Laura!”

She laughed. “Aw, come on! That was a good one. It's not every day I get to make that sort of joke. I had to take the opportunity.”

“I swear, you could to comedy if you applied yourself to it.”

“I'm too scared of crowds.”

I chuckled. “We're in a crowd now.”

“Yeah, but I'm not infrontof the crowd. There's a huge difference. I have stage fright.”

“Oh, I remember that from when you were in elementary school.”

“That was the worst play of my life!”

I tried to stifle a laugh. “But you were the cutest princess! You ran off the stage and right to us sitting in the audience.”

“That was so embarrassing!”

“But you looked so adorable running with your princess dress.”

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