No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 186



I made my way over to Fanny's place, finding her luckily at home.

"Hey, what was so urgent you had to call me in the middle of the night? I was dead on my feet after a long shift and couldn't call back. Are you sick or something?" Fanny remembered the incident as soon as she saw me.

I kicked off my shoes and padded deeper into her house on the plush carpet. "If I was sick, I'd probably be ashes by now."

Fanny wrapped an arm around my shoulders, a teasing lilt in her voice, "Oh come on, you mad at me?"

"No, I know you're swamped with work. It was nothing, really," I brushed off, not wanting to bring up Ernest's illness just yet.

Fanny wasn't buying it. "Middle of the night calls are never 'nothing"."

"It was about Ernest," I finally confessed, not wanting Fanny to worry that it was something about me.

Fanny handed me a glass of freshly squeezed watermelon juice. "That guy is really stepping up his game. Licia, if you don't hold on to him, you'll regret it for life."

My heart was still tangled up with thoughts of Conrad, so I took a sip of the juice to avoid responding. "Conrad and I are done for good."

Fanny scoffed. "Weren't you two over a long time ago?"

stared off into the distance.

Fanny clinked her glass

words made me laugh. "Conrad was good to you,

to you, it's all

We'll go grab some delicious food soon," Fanny proposed,

out anyway. "After we eat, I'll take you bar-hopping.

coat, Fanny transformed into the epitome of "don't judge a book by

mentioned a

luck would have it, the restaurant was right next to the café where Haley had asked to

of the car when I spotted her through

seemingly lost in thought.

She looked... pitiable.

since she sent me that message and called. She wasn't

spiked, especially at

of her sitting

for

me

and making my dinner

I gestured

talk to her.

Fanny didn't