Every Summer After By Carley Fortune EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Carley Fortune
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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The fourth cocktail had seemed like a good idea. So did the bangs,
come to think of it. But now that I’m struggling to unlock my apartment
door, I’m guessing I might regret that last spritz in the morning. Maybe the
bangs, too. June told me breakup bangs were almost always a very bad
choice when I sat in her chair for a cut today. But June wasn’t going to her
friend’s engagement celebration, newly single, that night. Bangs were in
order.
It’s not that I’m still in love with my ex; I’m not. I never was. Sebastian
is kind of a snob. An up-and-coming corporate lawyer, he wouldn’t have
lasted one hour at Chantal’s party without scoffing at her choice of
signature drink and referencing some pretentious article he read in the New
York Times that declared Aperol spritzes “over.” Instead, he would pretend
to study the wine list, ask the bartender annoying questions about terroir
and acidity and, regardless of the answers, go with a glass of the most
expensive red. It’s not that he has exceptional taste or knows a lot about
wine; he doesn’t. He just buys expensive stuff to give the impression of
being discerning.
Sebastian and I were together for seven months, giving our relationship
the distinction of being my longest-lasting one yet. In the end, he said he
didn’t really know who I was. And he had a point.
Before Sebastian, the guys I picked were up for a good time and didn’t
seem to mind keeping things casual. By the time I met him, I figured being
a serious adult meant I should find someone to get serious about. Sebastian
fit the bill. He was attractive, well read, and successful, and despite being a
bit pompous, he could talk to anyone about almost anything. But I still
found it hard to share too many pieces of myself. I’d long ago learned to
tamp down my tendency to let random thoughts spew unfiltered from my
mouth. I thought I was doing a good job of giving the relationship a real
chance, but in the end Sebastian recognized my indifference, and he was
right. I didn’t care about him. I didn’t care about any of them.
There was only the one.
And that one is long gone.
So I enjoy spending time with men, and I appreciate how sex gives me
an escape ladder out of my mind. I like making men laugh, I like having
company, I like taking a break from my vibrator once in a while, but I don’t
get attached, and I don’t go deep.
I’m still fumbling with my key—seriously, is something wrong with the
lock?—when my phone buzzes in my purse. Which is weird. No one calls
me this late. Actually, no one ever calls me, except for Chantal and my
parents. But Chantal is still at her party and my parents are touring Prague
and won’t be awake yet. The buzzing stops just as I get the door open and
stumble into my small one-bedroom apartment. I check the mirror by the
entrance to find my lipstick mostly smudged off but my bangs looking
pretty phenomenal. Suck it, June.
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