Mad About Ewe by Susannah Nix EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Susannah Nix
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Romance Fiction
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DAWN
Slow walkers were a scourge upon the city streets.
It was all very well to live a leisurely, low-stress life, taking plenty of time
to stop and smell the roses—so long as you did it off to one side so those of
us with somewhere to be could get past you.
“Pardon me!” I chirped politely as I zipped around a young man strolling
down the dead center of the sidewalk with his phone pressed to his ear.
He was too engrossed in his conversation to hear me, and as I drew abreast,
his arm shot out to gesticulate at the person on the other end of the phone.
Fortunately, I had ninja-like reflexes when it came to navigating Chicago
sidewalks, and I managed to avoid taking a forearm to the face by ducking
under the offending appendage. I threw a glance over my shoulder as I
hurried past, but the man hadn’t even noticed me—or how close he’d come
to breaking my nose.
Unsurprising, really. I’d found as I progressed through my forties that men
didn’t seem to see me anymore. It was as if age had rendered me invisible
to them, no matter how faithfully I dyed my gray roots copper brown, or
how many steps I added to my skincare regimen. (Nine, if you’re
wondering. I was up to nine steps, and seriously considering adding two
more.)
Never mind Mr. Forearm Tattoo, I had more important things to worry
about. The store was supposed to open—I glanced down at my watch—five
minutes ago. Fudgsicles!
I picked up the pace, dodging around obstacles and pedestrians like a highspeed Ms. Pac-Man, breaking into a sweat despite the chilly spring weather.
Chloe had been scheduled to open this morning, but she’d called in sick an
hour ago. I’d still been in my pajamas, unwashed and unshampooed,
enjoying a rare late morning in, when she’d phoned to tell me she’d woken
with a sore throat and fever.
Sidestepping a yawning young woman in scrubs headed for the hospital a
few blocks away, I skipped over the leash of an old man’s wayward dog
while giving a wide berth to a deliveryman balancing a stack of boxes. I
was moving at a solid clip and making good time until I came up behind a
pair of spandex-clad women walking two abreast down the sidewalk ahead
of me.
“Excuse me,” I said to the back of their matching Lululemon outfits and
bouncy ponytails.
No response. They continued chattering at one another, as oblivious to me
as the young man on the phone had been. Apparently, my invisibility wasn’t
limited to men.
I’d simply have to go around. If I made myself smaller, I could just squeeze
by on one side—
“Excuse you,” one of the women said when my handbag bumped her elbow
as I squeezed between her and a parked SUV.
“Sorry,” I answered reflexively, feeling my face flush with a mix of anger
and embarrassment.
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