One Night Stand (The Complete Story) by Katie Silver Read Free Book Online Page B

am exhausted. Can we do another day?”
     
    “How about tomorrow?” His face was beaming with excitement, softening the sharp, masculine lines of his jaw and cheekbones.
     
    “Tomorrow would be perfect,” I agreed. His smile was contagious. I couldn’t stop the happiness that was bubbling up inside me. After the nightmare day I had just had, everything was finally falling back into place. And Lorenzo Romano was going to take me out on a real date.”
     
    “I’ll pick you up at seven,” he said, grabbing my hands in his and planting a quick kiss on my cheek. “I can’t wait to see you.”
     
    As he hurried back to his apartment building, I leaned against the heavy marble and felt my heart fluttering. It was hard to catch my breath after the rollercoaster of emotions I was riding, but the sheer joy of being kissed by Lorenzo outweighed everything else. He wanted me! He even wanted to take me on a date!
     
    I practically skipped the whole way home, despite my exhaustion. I threw open the door and rushed into the apartment, almost knocking over my roommate Riley, who was standing in the kitchen with two fresh pints of ice cream.
     
    “Emma?! Oh my God, you scared me!” She dropped the ice cream containers on the table and threw her arms around me in a big hug. “Is everything alright? I got us some ice cream since I figured you might need a movie night after everything that happened with that jerk Lorenzo.”
     
    “Is Emma back?” Ava, our third roommate called out from her bedroom.
     
    “I’m back!” I called out, then turned to Riley. “Ice cream and a movie night sounds perfect, but I actually have some pretty big updates on the whole Lorenzo situation. I could feel my cheeks heating up and looked away, trying to hide my smile.
     
    “Oh my God! Emma! Did you do it again? You slept with him again after everything he did and even after he turned out to be involved with the freaking mob?!” Riley tossed her long blond hair indignantly and placed her hands on her hips. I knew she was trying to be all motherly, but she just managed to look like a model posing for a magazine cover.
     
    “You slept with him again?” Ava shouted excitedly, running into the room and coming to a skidding stop. She had already changed into her pajamas, a matching set of baby blue shorts and a tank covered in multi-colored fish. With her bright red curls tumbling wildly down her shoulders, she looked adorable and completely excited.
     
    “I didn’t sleep with him,” I assured them, to Riley’s relief and Ava’s disappointment. “But I do have a date with him tomorrow.” When I saw their faces, I laughed and quickly added “there is a lot to explain.”
     
    “Let’s grab some ice cream and move to the couch so you can explain it all,” Riley replied gently.
     
    “That sounds great.” I could feel the exhaustion seeping in again and curling up on the couch with some ice cream and my two best friends sounded pretty wonderful right then.
     
    We grabbed our chipped old bowls and some spoons and served ourselves each a bowl of butter pecan and cookie dough ice creams, and then walked over to the faded, but comfortable couch in our living room. I curled up in the middle and Ava and Riley snuggled up next to me on both sides.
     
    “Alright, spill!” Ava demanded after we had silently taken a few comforting bites of ice cream.
     
    “So, basically, my day was crazy,” I started. “Some guy named Bruno who works for the Romano family basically showed up to warn me not to fuck with them. Then I got this call from this detective guy who wanted me to meet up with him. I did, and he basically warned me that Lorenzo is a no-good womanizer, tried to get info on the Romano family. Of course, I have no information at all, which I told him. Then that Bruno guy showed up again and told me I had to go see Lorenzo and his father, Giovanni.”
     
    “Holy shit!” Ava interrupted. “You mean the mob boss