Finding My Charming (Charmed Book 1) by Brittney Mulliner

Author:Brittney Mulliner [Mulliner, Brittney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

ari had responded to my emergency text last night with plans to meet for lunch on my break. I needed to hurry and decide who was the right guy, but I was being split in two, and I needed her input.

Another sigh escaped when I checked the clock and realized there was still two hours between now and lunch. Two hours of me sitting in my chair of self-pity and disdain.

“If you sigh or groan one more time, I’m going to lose my mind, Elise. You don’t want that to happen, do you?” She gave me one of her best motherly looks, which only added guilt to my montage of negativity.

“I’m sorry, Sherrie. I’m going to go back and file.” A closet in the back housed hundreds of old case files that had already been converted digitally to the computers but needed to be sorted and stored. It was a daunting and excruciatingly mundane task, but it would be perfect for me. I needed something mindless, yet productive, to do before I went completely mad.

“You don’t need to do that, dear. I wasn’t trying to kick you out, I just wanted you to cheer up.”

I grabbed my phone and wireless headphones so I could have music playing in the back and stood. “It’s okay. It’s got to get done, and I could use some time to think.”

“You can talk to me. You know that, right?”

I nodded and walked past the desk to the hall leading to my prison for the day. I didn’t know what I was going to do about my situation, and this would give me a chance to make a plan before I talked to Ari. She would probably have some crazy ideas to help, but I needed logic and strategy right now. Time wasn’t on my side, and I didn’t have the luxury of making mistakes.

With some depressing songs to keep me company, I was able to get through almost half of the stacks of files by the time Ari appeared at the doorway.

“Sherrie told me you were back here.” She looked from the cabinets to my phone to me sitting on the floor surrounded by files with a look of confusion and concern. “Things are really bad, aren’t they?”

I nodded and bit my bottom lip to keep from bursting into tears. Ari was my rock, always had been, and if there was any way I was going to get through this, it was going to be with her by my side.

“Oh, Elle.” She knelt and wrapped her arms around me.

I bit harder, but she’d broken the dam. Tears streamed down my cheeks as I took rough, hiccupping breaths.

She squeezed tighter, and I felt her rest her chin on the top of my head. “Let’s get you cleaned up, then I’ll get us some food, and we can go eat in the park by the library, okay?”

Ari knew that park was my favorite. During the past summers, I would take a book and a snack

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