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- Authors: Katana Collins
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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7 years later…
There’s a reason why I don’t drink more than two glasses of wine
anymore at any given time.
I sat in the living room of my small flat, staring at the paper shopping
bag that sat on my coffee table and trying to calm my racing heart.
I didn’t buy what I thought I bought, did I? I couldn’t have.
I wasn’t that drunk last night, was I?
Okay, yes, I was that drunk. But I wasn’t that stupid, was I?
Taking a deep breath, I reached into the paper bag with the stamp
Olsen’s Books and Antiquities inked on the front and pulled out the
hardbound, gorgeous green book with gold peacock feathers embossed on
the front.
Oh no.
It turned out, I was that drunk and stupid.
With a chirp, my tuxedo cat, Jules hopped up on the coffee table and
brushed her head against my knuckles, trying to get some scritches out of
me.
I didn’t know whether to laugh, cry, gasp, or dance around my living
room.
The book in my hands was a first edition copy of Pride and Prejudice.
But not just any first edition. Nope, that would be too simple…. And I,
Addy Meyer, was known for being extra.
This was the 1894 first Peacock edition signed by the legendary
illustrator, Hugh Thomson… from his own private collection.
I’d been staring at this book, drooling over it, for more than a year since
it entered the doors of Olsen’s Books and Antiquities. But the $8,000 price
tag made it so that it was never more than a pipe dream.
With trembling hands, I placed the book back into the archival bag it
came in, then dropped my forehead onto the coffee table, just as my
ringtone pierced the quiet patter of London’s drizzle against my window
panes.
I didn’t even look at the screen, forehead still on my coffee table as I
lifted the phone and pressed it to my ear. “H’llo,” I mumbled.
“Let me in,” Daphne said, her thick Manchester accent still as charming
as it was the first day I met her. “I’m downstairs and I’ve got the biggest
Americano they serve around the corner.
Which meant it was basically 10 oz. Europeans didn’t serve the massive
sized drinks we did in America. Even still, beggars can’t be choosers. And
since I’d apparently just spent the last of my savings on a freaking book,
well, it wasn’t like I could afford my own damn cup of coffee today.
Practically near tears, I peeled myself off of the pine coffee table and
made my way down the narrow staircase to let Daphne in.
Brown eyes wide and excited, she shoved the coffee into my hands and
brushed past me, sweeping up the stairs. “I can’t believe you did it! You
actually did it, Harp! Can I see it? Can I touch it?”
I gaped at her, fury and panic swelling in my lungs. “You knew that I
was going to buy that stupid book and didn’t stop me?”
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