And Then There Was You by Molly O'Keefe

Author:Molly O'Keefe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Molly O'Keefe

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“What do you think he’s doing in there?” Deb asked the quiet room. Jennifer lifted her head and glanced at the closed office door.

“I have no idea,” she whispered. Spence shuffled around and looked up at her with damp, blue-grey eyes. “You hungry?” she asked and he nodded.

She helped him into his chair and picked up the glass of milk that had spilled, trading it for a full one.

“You okay?” she asked while he drank.

He nodded. “I don’t know why she did that,” he finally said, so baffled.

“Me neither, sweetie,” she said.

The office door behind them opened and Spencer stiffened, his fingers white around the glass. Jennifer stroked his hair and looked over her shoulder.

And time stood still.

Ian, the sexiest man alive, was gazing down at a tear-streaked Madison. Holding her hand, even. And Madison clung to him, like a boat in a storm.

“Madison,” he whispered, jostling their linked hands, and she looked at him for a long moment, gathering some kind of strength from something she saw in his eyes.

Finally she nodded and stepped toward Spence, who, still tense, still scared, looked at her.

“I’m so sorry,” she whispered, tears in her pretty green eyes. “I understand if you don’t want to be friends anymore,” she said. “But I promise I’ll never hurt you again.”

Jennifer was floored and Deb and Andille seemed equally dumbfounded. Angelina wiggled off Deb’s lap and threw herself against her sister.

Spencer, her serious little boy, stared at Madison for a moment then nodded solemnly, as if ratifying some international agreement.

Madison’s tears shook loose from her lashes and trickled down her cheeks. She hung her head, her shoulders so small, and Ian was right there.

“Good job, kiddo,” he whispered.

Deb and Andille burst into action, grabbing more milk and putting kids back in their seats, keeping up a steady and distracting stream of chatter and Jennifer, stunned and awed by this new unexpected side of Ian, stood to give him her thanks.

His eyes lifted to hers and her stomach twisted and plummeted to her feet.

His eyes were ravaged. Haunted. Past his smile and easygoing charm, whatever had happened in that office had scourged him.

“Let’s eat,” he said brightly, then he sat between Spencer and Madison, acting for all the world like nothing was wrong.

Jennifer sank into her chair, all too aware that he was lying.

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