So good

MICHELLE PEYTON

“Why do I feel like you aren’t hearing a damn word I said the whole time?”

Lonnie’s voice made me jerk back to reality. Fuck! Did I zone out again?!

He had a look of pure frustration on his soft face. I couldn’t blame him. He had put up with so much from me and yet here he was like a little lost puppy.

Lonnie sighed. “Michelle, what’s going on? What are you thinking about?”

I smiled nervously, shaking my head.

If he could get a preview of what I was thinking about then he would drop dead from severe heartbreak. I didn’t want to be the one to do that to him even though he had it coming.

“It’s nothing. I'm just having a rough week.”

“A rough week? It’s Monday!”

Oops!

“I know. It’s just one of those things.”

Sitting across from him, I tried to imagine what had made me agree to be his girlfriend in the first place. He wasn’t my type even if he had a full magical makeover courtesy of the fairy godmother herself.

“Anything I can help you with?” Lonnie said.

He sounded genu