Chapter 9 Jealous Of The Other Man With Me

• Julia
• I sat on the couch in the living room, tugging at the short blue dress I had squeezed into. I grabbed my phone to check the time. He was fifteen minutes late. I had hoped he’d be here in time so we could leave before anyone came downstairs. This was the only tactic I could think of to avoid Michael.
• Fortunately for me, Beatrice had been able to find a man willing to go out on a date with me—on such short notice. It was George—the medical doctor she’d tried to pair me with last year, but nothing had come of it. Then Michael happened.