City of Yes (A Novella) by M.J. Pullen

Author:M.J. Pullen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: M.J. Pullen
Published: 2017-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

They walked slowly, rollerblades dangling. Charlotte’s legs and back felt like jelly, but a breeze had come up to dry her sweaty clothes and push away the clouds, leaving perfect afternoon sunshine.

Strange: normally with a mere two days to pull off a proposal, she’d be running around like a madwoman, barely eating, cruising on her cortisol high from all the stress. But just now, the casual stroll felt like the perfect pace. Whatever tension Jared had been feeling about the engagement seemed to have left him, at least for now.

Then again, Jared had never been much for worrying.

“So, I guess I haven’t asked yet…” he said after a while. “I mean, maybe I assumed, because…” He coughed.

“What’s up?”

“I mean, I assume you’re not seeing anyone now,” he said, “but what’s your story, since you moved to San Francisco? Have you been breaking all those hearts people keep leaving here?”

She laughed. “Why do you assume I’m not seeing anyone?”

“Because…” He went red, obviously thinking of their kiss the night before.

“I’m not,” she said, letting him off the hook. “Honestly, I don’t have much time to date these days. So many of my evenings are spent helping other people get engaged, the idea of romance at the other end feels exhausting. When I do get a night off, I’d rather just go out with friends to the Piano Bar or sit home on the couch and watch old movies.”

“You’re still into those black-and-white movies? You used to make us watch those for hours.”

“I never made you guys do anything. And yeah, I still love the classics.”

He looked thoughtful for a minute. “So, no big relationships for you? No heartbreaks?”

“Just Boyd,” she said. “That was enough to last me for a while.”

Jared was quiet, watching their shadows lengthen on the path in front of them. Before Charlotte knew it, they had reached the Little Blue Shack and the small trail to the parking lot. Grimacing, she slipped out of her flip-flops and into her sneakers while Jared laced up his boots. “I know this is probably a stupid idea,” he said. “But would you like to have dinner tonight?”

“Don’t you need to…do anything? For tomorrow? Make calls?”

He looked confused.

“Did you decide about the families?”

“Oh, that,” he said. “Yeah, I should’ve said that earlier. Sorry, I’m bad about making decisions in my head and not verbalizing them. Drives my team crazy. The families can wait. This is our moment. And, I mean, what if she says no?”

Charlotte had to stop herself from saying, “She won’t say no,” because it was against the Perfect Proposals’ rules to make promises on which they couldn’t deliver. In five years of doing this, there had been very few prospective spouses who had said no. Usually by the time someone got to the point of contracting for her services, they were pretty sure of the answer. But you never knew.

Still, she couldn’t imagine anyone turning down Jared. Objectively, he was rich and handsome and brilliant and funny. Plus, he was…Jared.

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