Billionaire's Unexpected Landing by Kathryn Kaleigh

Author:Kathryn Kaleigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathryn Kaleigh

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SARAH

I left the next morning for what used to be Lawrence Valley Winery. It had long since changed names, but that didn’t bother me. I just wanted to stay in the house. Maybe take some walks around the grounds.

My father used it on occasion as a getaway, but a quick conversation had given me clearance to use the house since Father was in France.

He’d never remarried, but I often thought he should have. Since my mother passed, he’d been a bit lost and not a little bit wild. He did whatever he wanted and whenever he wanted to do it. And that whatever usually involved being away from L.A.

The drive up to the winery—I’d always think of it that way even if my family no longer owned more than a couple of acres around the house—was peaceful.

Needing to be alone with my own thoughts, I didn’t even turn on any music. As I drove, I went through a wide range of emotions.

Sadness at the loss of possibilities with Luke.

Then moved through a sense of freedom, mostly at being able to come up here and spend a few days. I could not remember the last time I had taken time off for myself. Any time off had involved work. I always had at least one or two work meetings with psychiatrists.

Then my thoughts wound their way back around to Luke.

I should be grateful to him for letting me know that I could still enjoy an evening with a handsome man. It had been too long.

Maybe after this weekend, I’d download one of those apps and figure out the whole swiping thing. But the thought depressed me, so I tucked it away.

I did not have to date. I was content with my life the way it was.

It hit me then. Right in the face. Perhaps I was more like my father than I’d ever wanted to admit.

No. I did not want that lifestyle. I did not want to be like my father, avoiding putting down roots. I understood why he was that way, but he must have some propensity toward it anyway or he would have settled down again.

Maybe meeting Luke was a kind of wakeup call. He was making me think about things I hadn’t thought about in a while. Including my lifestyle.

Maybe I would get a pet. Not a dog because I traveled too much, but maybe a cat. Cats were self-sufficient, weren’t they?

By the time I was driving down the lane leading to the house, I knew it wouldn’t be fair to get a pet when I was gone half the time.

That depressed me, too. Maybe Dr. Meek was right. Maybe I did need to take some of my own medicine. Literally.

Seeing the house was bittersweet. Familiar. And with that familiarity came memories.

The house was a two-story manor built in the early twentieth century. A wide balcony with wooden railing jutted out across the front of house and a trail of green ivy wound its way up the post on the far right.

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