Another Saturday Night and I Ain't Got No Body (A Page Turners Novel) Read Online Free PDF Page A

nights.
    So the evening progressed from Catcher in the Rye to a game of Catch Me If you Can, with Sunny as the prize.
     
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    After leaving Starbucks, the Page Turners took in a chick flick, then ended the evening in their favorite pizza place downtown, destroying two large pizzas and a Caesar salad. The pizza turned Sunny’s stomach queasy every time the topic of her dating life resurfaced, and she continually tried to veer the conversation back to the movie .
    “That ending was so cheesy,” Maggie said. Edna and Sunny had given her a ride home, and they sat in front of her house as she collected her bag and complained about the movie. “It was so unrealistic to have all that occur exactly in that order so he would just happen to see her again on that exact train.”
    “I liked it,” Sunny said. “Sometimes all the planets do align just right, and you can have a happy ending.”
    Maggie’s phone beeped, and she dug through her purse and pulled free her Blackberry. “Speaking of endings, it’s the asshole himself.”
    Maggie’s ex-husband, aka Chad the Cheater, had left Maggie and their teenage sons, Drew and Dylan, sixteen months ago on an ordinary Tuesday night. He’d tried to put a romantic spin on his affair, but when it was all said and done, Maggie Hayes, successful attorney-at-law, had been left for a Hooters’ waitress named Sapphire.
    Maggie now held up her phone and read the text aloud. “Sorry, won’t be able to make Drew’s thing this weekend. Sapphire and I will be in Mexico. Tell him I’ll make it up to him later.”
    “He is such an idiot,” she said. “Drew’s thing this weekend is his high school graduation party but evidently Chad’s thing comes before anything else in his life right now.”
    Sunny put a hand on her shoulder. “I’m so sorry.”
    Maggie sighed, and Sunny knew her heart ached for her seventeen year old son. Sunny hugged her, then Maggie got out of the car, slamming the door behind her.
    Watching her beautiful friend cross the lawn, Sunny was struck with doubt over this blind date scheme. Both Sunny and Maggie had been burned by men, and if a gorgeous, intelligent woman like Maggie didn’t have a man, what chance did Sunny have of finding not even a Mr. Maybe, but a Mr. Might Be Okay?
     

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    Not bad.
    Sunny surveyed herself in the full length mirror that hung from the closet door. It was Saturday night, and she was ready for her first blind date. Maggie had called a few days before with the news.
    “All right, I’ve got your first guy,” she had said as Sunny answered the phone Thursday afternoon.
    Sunny gulped. She thought it would take longer than a few days before the ‘dating game’ would begin. “I don’t know if I’m ready.”
    “You’ll be fine. You just have to start,” Maggie said.
    “Who is he?”
    “His name is Blaine Bishop. He’s a rich stockbroker who is a client of mine. He’s divorced, no kids and did I mention rich?”
    “What does he look like?” Not that looks were the most important part of a man, but a certain suspicious new neighbor had been creeping into her night time fantasies and a new hunky guy would be a great distraction.
    “He looks like an attractive, rich guy.”
    “Nice. Any other details, besides his wallet thickness?”
    “Sunny, would I set you up with a dog ? No. He’s tall, has dark hair, a great tan and he works out.”
    “Well, he sounds all right, I guess.”
    “Great,” Maggie said. “He’ll pick you up at seven on Saturday night, and I’m sure he will take you somewhere snazzy, so dress up.” 
    My first date starts tonight with a man I don’t know, going somewhere I’ve never been. How did I get myself into this? She took a deep breath and threw her shoulders back. I was looking for more excitement in my life, right?
    She wore the classic black dress and pumps for her date with Blaine that evening. She’d chosen a halter style dress to accentuate the good cleavage of her top half,