Dedicated to the One I Love by Beth K. Vogt

Author:Beth K. Vogt [Vogt, Beth K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

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Kylie shut the door to her office on an inquisitive Remington. After Dylan left, she’d thought and prayed about what she needed to do last night and into today. She didn’t need the distraction of her cat wandering in and out of the room. He peered at her through the lower glass panes before disappearing down the hallway toward the bedroom.

Have a nice nap, Rem.

She opened her laptop, positioning it just so on her desk. Pulled up the app, and then brushed her hair back from her face. Considered touching up her lips with gloss. No. This was a professional call. She wasn’t glamming it up for Joe Edwards.

As soon as he connected, Kylie offered him a smile. “Good morning.”

“Hello.” His eyes held a question. “It goes without saying I wasn’t expecting you to want to talk to me.”

“Element of surprise, right?”

“You could say that.”

She needed to just get on with it. “I want to apologize for walking away from you yesterday. I let my anger get the best of me.”

Joe leaned back in the chair. “Apology accepted.”

“I realized later I wasn’t angry with you.”

“You weren’t?”

“I take that back.” Kylie pressed her hands to the sides of her face. “I was angry about those rules. They’re a bit over the top.”

“I can see why you might think that.” Joe rubbed his hand across his jaw.

“You can? Thanks. I-I wasn’t expecting that.”

“My friends Mallory and Tucker? You met them at the cookout over Memorial Day. Mallory’s a straight talker. She keeps me in line.”

“You told her about sending me the email?”

“Yeah. She wasn’t impressed.”

“Nice to know Mallory’s on my side.”

Joe shook his head. “Don’t go trying to steal my friends, now.”

“Not in the plan at all.” Kylie took a deep breath. “My friend Dylan—she’s known me for years. Knows about all of this. How we met online. How we’re working on a book together.”

“The, um, difficulties we’re having working together?”

“Yes. That’s a diplomatic way to put it.” Kylie glanced away from the laptop screen for a moment. Refocused on Joe. “She came over yesterday. We talked, and I came to a realization.”

“That you weren’t angry with me—but then you just admitted you were.”

“Yes and yes.” Kylie laughed. “I was angrier with Andrew.”

“Andrew … your husband?” Joe’s eyebrows knit together.

Kylie thought this conversation would be better face-to-face, but she wasn’t about to drive up to Joe’s unannounced, so the virtual call seemed like the best option. But now that it was happening, her honesty was making things awkward. Again.

She clenched her hands together beneath her desk, praying Joe didn’t see the tension on her face. Either this succeeded, and she and Joe figured out how to work together, or she was done, done, done with this project and her next call was to Shannon.

“Yes, my husband, Andrew. It’s been three years since he died, but I had some lingering anger. He died right before my last book released.”

“I remember reading about that. I’m sorry.” Joe’s voice had gentled.

“Thank you. The year before he died had been stressful for our marriage.

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