Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Rebecca Serle
- Language: English
- Genre: Romance
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The paper is blank save for the name: Jake. The four letters rest on cream
stationery lacking any additional information but sporting a firm black border.
It’s weighty, this note. Significant in my hands.
I find it slipped under my door on my way to dinner. The dinner that, if this
paper is to be believed, will introduce me to the man I will spend the rest of my
life with. This has never happened before. But then again, it’s not the kind of
thing that happens twice.
The restaurant is in West Hollywood, not far from where I live. I like to
choose the place. If I get the paper late, like, say, at dessert—and it says two hours
—I can wrap things up quickly.
Tonight we are at the tail end of summer in Los Angeles, and warmer nights
are descending into the low seventies. The wind has even started to pick up—
reminding us of all that fall can bring. I tuck my hair behind my ear and toss it
over my shoulder as I climb the steps and open the door.
“Hey, Daphne!” The hostess at Gracias Madre, a casual vegan Mexican place
on Melrose, recognizes me immediately. Her name is Marissa, and I know she
used to bartend at The Pikey on Sunset, before they closed. “You’re the first one
here, do you want to sit?”
The space is beautiful—a bar area spills out onto a large and lively patio to
the side. There are potted trees throughout the restaurant, and warm, yellow
light falls from the overhead glass fixtures and onto the terra-cotta-tiled floors
like honeycomb.
I’m nervous, and I’m never nervous. I’m wearing a black halter top and a pair
of 501s. Neon kitten heels. I would have probably chosen a different ensemble,
maybe even something a little more romantic, seeing as how this is going to be
my last first date ever, but I was already dressed, and now here we are.
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