Fight Like A Girl: An Opposites Attract Romance (Fighting For Love) Harley Reid (top 100 books of all time checklist TXT) 📖

I check my phone.

Nothing.

Where the fuck is she?

Placing the controller down on the table in front of me, I pick up my phone, but it goes straight to voice mail when I dial her number. Maybe she’s got no signal. When she goes into the village, she always takes the trail through the woods to save time so she’s probably on her way back right now.

Pacing the floor, I wait.

And I wait.

Then I wait some more.

After trying her again, I decide to call Lexi to see if she knows anything.

“Hey, you two love birds sick of each other already?” She answers jokingly.

“She left for coffee about an hour and a half ago and she hasn’t come back. I’ve tried calling but it just goes straight to voice mail. Have you heard from her?” The words spew out of my mouth at warp speed and Lexi goes quiet for a second.

“I haven’t spoke to her since yesterday. Have you checked the coffee shop?” Yes, I’ll drive there and see if I can see her.

“I’ll head there now and call you back.”

“Fuck that. Mia doesn’t just go A.W.O.L. without a reason and if my sister is missing, I can’t just sit here waiting for you to call me back. I’ll drive over now and meet you at the house.”

The line goes dead and I race to the hallway, grab my car keys and head into the village.

It takes five minutes for me to reach the coffee shop and not wanting to waste time parking, I abandon the car directly in front before rushing in. There’s no sign of her anywhere so I join the small queue and hope that the waitress knows something.

There are two people in front of me and luckily, they are both ordering something pretty simple so I get to the front quite quickly and I’m greeted by a very flirty young lady with flame red hair.

“I’m looking for my girlfriend.” My tone hopeful.

“Look no further.” Her smile fades as she realises it’s not a chat up line.

“She came in a while ago and she hasn’t come back. She’s around five-four, dark blonde hair which would have been tied back, shorts and t-shirt with a pair of brown boots.” She stares at me blankly. My phone! I pull my phone out, scrolling through my gallery until I find a picture that we took in the limo on the way to the fundraiser and shove it in her face. “Have you seen her?”

“Oh yeah, I remember her. She was in here about an hour ago.” Her expression changes and I see pity in her eyes. “I hate to break it to you, but she was here with some other guy, and they looked pretty friendly.”

Fuck! Why would she do this to me? She knows what happened with Sam.

“This guy she was with… What did he look like?” I ask, resisting the urge to smash the whole place up.

“Oh, dark hair, good looking-ish but he had a giant chip on his shoulder. I’m pretty sure I heard her call him something like Paul or…”

“Peter?” I interrupt.

“That’s the one. They talked, she ordered and then they left.”

I told him I’d fucking kill him if he messed with her again. How could she choose him over me after how he treated her?

“Okay, thanks.” I leave with my ego bruised and drive back home to drown my sorrows.

As I pull into the courtyard I spot Lexi’s Audi and see her standing on the porch. The last thing I want is to have to explain to her that Mia has run off with someone else and I got her worried for no reason, but she’s now sitting in my car and I have no choice.

“No way. Mia wouldn’t do that. If she met with him there had to be some other reason.” I’ve never noticed this before but she’s really expressive and waves her arms around a lot when she talks. “She really likes you, there’s no way she’d leave you for him.”

“So, you’re saying the staff at the coffee shop are lying?” I spit, not being helpful in the slightest.

“Here, I’ll prove it.” She whips her phone out and taps the speaker button as the sound of ringing fills the small space.

“What do you want Lexi?” My blood boils when I hear his voice and I want to drive over to his house to beat the shit out of him.

“Is Mia with you?” She asks calmly as I try to be as quiet as possible.

“No, I haven’t seen her.”

“Liar. I know you met up with her this morning and I need to speak to her.”

“Fine, okay. I did see her this morning. I asked her to marry me and she chose him. There! Are you satisfied? Humiliate me all over again, why don’t you.”

My stomach somersaults. I can’t believe she chose me over him. I can’t believe I ever doubted her.

“Do you know where she went after she left the coffee shop?” Lexi asks, sounding like she’s holding back tears.

“No, she raced away from me and headed for the woods and I haven’t seen her since. Why what’s going on?”

“It’s nothing, we just can’t get hold of her and thought she might be with you. Thanks Peter.”

With that, Lexi presses the big red button, and we sit in silence, realising that shit just got serious.

For three hours we drove around the streets looking for any signs of where she could be. We even traced her steps through the woods, but we found nothing. I was hoping that we’d get back to the house to find her sitting on the sofa wondering what the commotion was about but when we returned, the house was silent.

Knowing how important it is to get missing people found quickly from the whole situation with Sam, I called the cops, but they didn’t want to know. We’ve got to wait until