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Okay Fine A little bit of my heart as well But mostly the booze

"I just wanted to make sure he was okay He hasn’t been happy lately," Iaway froo dark, and I sigh dejectedly that I didn’t get another look at him

"How do you know he hasn’t been happy lately if this is the first time you’ve seen him since last hen he stormed out of the diner?"

I wince and slowly turn back to face her I couldn’t keep the guilty look off my face if I tried

Lorelei’s eyes widen and her jaw drops "Oh,hiht hear you!" I whisper My head whips around and I stare in horror at his front door, expecting hie over to the car, de hiht not be a bad thing I’d be able to see his naked chest up close and personal

"Paige, I highly suggest you never drink again People make utterly unhealthy life choices when they drink and this just proves it It’s one o’clock in theand we’re parked outside a man’s house because you have some misplaced affection for him"

"It’s not misplaced I know exactly where it is," I tell her stubbornly, crossinghim all week, haven’t you?" Lorelei demands

It’s like she KNOWS I followed him to work once

Okay, three tier and irritation I saw flashed across his face that first time wasn’t a fluke And it wasn’t Each time I saw him this past week he looked exactly the sa way I felt responsible for putting that look on his face

"Will you stop calling it ‘stalking’? That’s such a harsh ter’"

She clenches her jaw and narrows her eyes at me

"What is this really about? Is it because Andy won’t leave you alone about the uy who co? This isn’t like you, Paige"

Letting ainst the headrest, I close ht This isn’t liketo do with Andy I couldn’t care less if he’s jealous I justI don’t want to end up like my mother Seventy years old, bitter, and alone"

It’s the first ti like this, and honestly, I didn’t even know it bothered me until I found someone like Matt and then lost hio anywhere

"And who says you will? You’re the only one who has the power over your own life, Paige YOU control your destiny I’ll ad outside of this guy’s house stalk--"

I cut her off with a glare and she huffs in annoyance

"Anony Kennedy that you’ve strayed frouess I understand," Lorelei tellsKennedy and Griffin be so in love and not have the sa for ourselves"

This little piece of sincerity from Lorelei shocks me into stunned silence Lorelei has always been adaain She swore off men for the rest of her life because she doesn’t think love is worth the hassle

It coh exterior of hers there’s a o ho frohtwith your heart"

Okay, e

Lorelei starts up the car and pulls away froure out a way to get Matt to forgive you, if that’s what you really want One that doesn’t involve anony a bartender a dick"

"I should probably go back and apologize for that, huh?"

CHAPTER 11

Without bothering to relasses perched on my face, I slide into the church pew at Saint Michael’s and briefly wonder if God knows I ca like booze and shalasses off--this isn’t a disco," my mother whispers harshly in my ear

Thankfully, I rollher that it’s no longer 1970

"Care to enlighten me on why you asked ht sunlight strealasses into my purse

"Youand it’s been over a month since you’ve set foot into a church?" she whispers back

Super Hangover frouilt

I raise an ins singing along with the other parishioners, ignoringto end and everyone to sit back down before I try again

"What was so important that it couldn’t wait until later today?" I whisper

She shushesinspot After a few minutes, she leans in closer to me

"Someone stole the Coold chalice wentYou need to tell your friend Kennedy to help us"

I bristle a little at the fact that she didn’t demand that I help her solve this case She’s convinced my only purpose at Fool Me Once is to be a whore Even my own mother doesn’t believe in ht? Why couldn’t I be the one to help you?"

Not that I would I’ to help Matt, but it’s the principle of the thing

"You kiss strangeto help us?"

Nothoseor how tasteful the photos are that I’ve done, she knows sohter who posed for Playboy and then went on to do porn, or so like that As soon as I was hired forthe rosary every single night because she thought she’d lost me to the dark side