Not Looking for Love: Episode 3 (14 page)

I start the engine and drive back to his apartment, running a few red lights to get there faster. The windows are dark and my packed bag is sitting by the closed and locked door.

I sit on the landing and call him until my battery is flashing red, but his phone is off. Cold is snaking up the stairs through the broken front door, and the windows above me are rattling in the wind.
 

The prideful Gail is telling me to get up and drive home, forget all about Scott and never think of him again. But even her voice is brittle and unconvincing, because the abyss waits for me beyond the broken door downstairs, and as soon as it shuts behind me, I'll topple right over the edge and the raging black waves will swallow me forever.
 

Scott has to come back here eventually, and I can wait until he does.
 

I will wait.

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
 

Thanks for reading! This story unfolds over a series of episodes in the form of short novels. The next episode of Not Looking For Love will be out in two weeks. Please sign up for my mailing list at
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About the Author:
 

Lena Bourne is a young writer, but she has seen her fair share of the world, of love and loss, and all that happens in between. Now she's here telling the stories you might otherwise have missed, which all are made up, of course, but could very well be real and true. Not Looking For Love is her first serial, a steamy New Adult romance, which will be released in five installments over the next few months.

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