Always the Best Man by Michelle Major

Author:Michelle Major
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-07-19T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Monday morning, Emily jumped at the tap on her shoulder, spinning around in her desk chair to find Jase grinning at her.

She ripped the headphones off her ears. “You scared me half to death,” she said, wheezing in a breath.

“You were singing out loud.”

“You were supposed to be in court all day.” She narrowed her eyes.

“What exactly are you listening to?” He reached for the headphones, but she grabbed them, then spun around to hit the mute button on her keyboard.

“Music,” she mumbled. “Why are you back so early? I didn’t hear the bells on the door when it opened.”

“I came in through the door to the alley out back.”

“You snuck up on me,” she grumbled.

“What kind of music? I didn’t recognize it.”

“Broadway show tunes, okay?” She crossed her arms over her chest and glared. “Evita to be specific. I like musicals.” The words came out like a challenge. “You’re a lawyer—sue me.”

His grin widened. “Don’t cry for me, Emily Whitaker.”

“Asking for trouble, Jase Crenshaw.”

He held up a brown paper bag. “Here’s a peace offering. I brought lunch from the deli around the corner. That’s why I came through the back. Have you eaten?”

She held up an empty granola-bar wrapper. “I’m working through lunch since I’m leaving early today.” Tomorrow was Davey’s first day of kindergarten so tonight they were going to the ice cream social at the elementary school. Her son didn’t seem worried about the change, but Emily had been a bundle of nerves since the moment she’d woken up this morning.

She’d had a meeting at the beginning of the week with the kindergarten teacher and the school’s interventionist to discuss the Asperger’s and how to help Davey have a successful school year. For a small school district, Crimson Elementary School offered many special education services. This would mark the first time he’d been away from her during the day.

She’d enrolled him in preschool in their Boston neighborhood, having added Davey’s name to the exclusive program’s wait list when he was only a few months old. Despite the expense of the private program, the teachers had been unwilling to work with his personality quirks.

Much like her husband, they’d expected him to manage like the rest of the children, which led to several frustrated tantrums. Davey had lashed out, throwing a toy car across the room. It had hit one of the other students on the side of the head and the girl had stumbled, then fallen, knocking her head on the corner of a bookshelf. There’d been angry calls from both the teacher and the girl’s mother and even a parent meeting at the school to allay other families’ concerns about Davey continuing in the program.

Henry had been furious, mostly because two of his partners had kids enrolled at the school so he couldn’t brush the incident under the rug. In the end, Emily had pulled Davey, opting to work with him herself on the skills he’d needed to be ready for kindergarten.

She couldn’t control the way Asperger’s affected his personality and his ability to socialize with both adults and other kids.

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