Don't Believe a Word by Patricia MacDonald

Author:Patricia MacDonald [MacDonald, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780727885876
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2015-12-08T23:00:00+00:00

SIXTEEN

Eden followed Flynn to the door and slammed it, locking it behind him. Then she crept over to the couch and curled up in the corner, pulling an extra blanket from the hall closet around her. She was shivering from head to toe, though the room was warm. There was a part of her that wanted to cry. And a part of her that refused to. For years she had been working and hoping for this job, and now she was going to lose it. The man who had wrecked her family was now going to wreck her future. For a minute she hoped that he would reconsider. That he wouldn’t do it. But he had really left no room for doubt.

She looked around the desolate room. It wasn’t as if she liked it here.

In a way, she thought, she would be glad to leave here. She was anxious to see her father again. She could hardly wait to return to New York, her apartment, her job, for however long she would have it, and her friends. The life she understood. She would never, for a minute, miss this dreary town, and all the unhappiness she had encountered here. She set her phone down on the coffee table, expecting it to ring. Realistically, she knew it would take a day or so. Gideon Lendl would try to talk Flynn out of this drastic move. It was the sort of professional tantrum which gave authors a bad reputation. But Flynn would not listen to his agent. Eden felt pretty certain of that. Then there would be conferences between the Lendl agency and DeLaurier Publishing. At the earliest, someone would call her tomorrow. She could be relieved of her job by tomorrow night.

At least you can go back to New York, she told herself, no matter what happens. Get up. Get your stuff packed up. You’re leaving this place. She forced herself to her feet. If there was a silver lining, she thought, as she pulled her suitcase out of the closet and opened it on her bed, it was this. She would never have to tell her father that she had come out here to work on Flynn’s book. It would no longer be a factor in their lives, and for that reason alone she was glad to have this over with. If she lost her job, and it seemed that she would, she would make up some excuse so that her father would never have to know how it involved Flynn Darby.

She opened the suitcase and began to put a few things into it which she would not need again until she got home. Her gaze fell on the cardboard box of her mother’s things which Flynn had pushed onto her the day she was at the house. She hadn’t even opened it yet. She needed to open it, and discard anything she didn’t really want to bring back with her. No point in paying for extra luggage if she didn’t need to.

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