Christmas Rewind Express by Kathryn Kaleigh

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

CHAPTER 6

“How’s the family?” I asked.

“They’re good,” he said. “The kids are ready for us to come home.”

So he had children. Of course he did.

He had always been so normal. I was the one who was driven almost to the point of obsession.

In his defense, he hadn’t had to be driven. His family took care of him while he did whatever it was he wanted to do.

Apparently that thing turned out to not be law school.

He held out a hand, palm up, across the table.

I recognized the gesture and reacted instinctively.

I put my hand in his.

“Thank you,” he said, with a little smile.

“For what?” Was this the part where he thanked me for not going with him ten years ago so he could end up with someone else? The right someone else?

“Acquiring this art gallery was one of the most brilliant ideas you’ve had.”

I just stared at him. Speechless.

I was in mergers and acquisitions.

But he seemed to think that I had already done some work for him. He hadn’t even told me what we were doing. Hadn’t told me that he wanted to acquire an art gallery.

I just shook my head. “It wasn’t my idea,” I said.

“You’re just so humble.”

He took a sip of his drink and I did the same.

“You know,” he said. “You could have done anything. You could have been one of these big shot New York attorneys if you’d wanted to.”

I just stared at him, certain that my mouth was hanging open.

“Yes,” I said. “I suppose I could have.”

“Sometimes I feel like I held you back.”

Something in his voice cut me to the core.

“You never held me back Benjamin.”

He grinned then. “I’m glad you feel that way.”

“Of course I do.” I swallowed the lump in my throat. Being here with him. Talking with him as though there were no years between us felt weird and heartwarming all at the same time.

I took a deep breath and pulled my hand from his.

“One last night in the big city before we go back to our suburbian lives,” he said.

“Suburbian?” I asked, the only word I could manage to get out.

“Well, Whiskey Springs is not officially considered a suburb of Denver, but the way it’s growing, one day it will be.”

“I’m sure it will,” I murmured, hiding my confusion behind my glass. I was feeling a little bit off-balance.

“I’ll be right back,” he said, glancing at his phone.

“Sure.” I sat there staring at the empty booth across from me.

I automatically reached for my phone, but then remembered that I had lost it. I know I had it when I’d bought the subway ticket.

The only thing I had in my pocket now, in fact, was that odd ticket from the subway.

I pulled it out and looked at the back of it again.

Christmas Rewind Express.

What did that even mean?

There was some kind of expiration date on the ticket. In small print. Midnight Christmas Eve.

Well, I didn’t need it. I’d have my car and driver back in the morning.

As Benjamin came back, I shoved the ticket back into my pocket.

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