Hard to Forgive (Hard to Love Book 3) by L.M. Reid

Author:L.M. Reid [Reid, L.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scarlet Lantern Publishing
Published: 2020-10-08T23:00:00+00:00

16

Mia

I glance down at the stack of resumes on my desk. I need to focus. Cooper doesn’t deserve to own this much of my mind, even if he did apologize. Just because he didn’t mean to hurt me, doesn’t negate the fact that he did. It also doesn’t mean that I have to forgive him. I can tolerate him. I can co-exist. But I certainly won’t forgive or forget what he did to me.

There is some type of commotion coming from beyond my office door. I don’t need any more disasters today. When I step out the door, I’m afraid to look. Expecting the worst because let’s face it, that’s how things are rolling these days I am pleasantly surprised when instead I find a sweet older lady who just so happens to be juggling one too many items.

“Everything okay?” I ask her. She looks vaguely familiar standing before me with her gray hair piled on top of her head, her brightly colored outfit, and a mischievous twinkle in her eye. She’s the woman from the coffee shop, Cooper’s assistant.

“Oh dear, I’m sorry. I’m just such a klutz,” she says. “I dropped a few things and…”

I bend to pick up the items. “Let me help you with that.”

“Aren’t you just a sweetheart?”

Placing the items on her desk, I ask, “Edith, right?”

“That’s me,” she says cheerfully. “I’m sorry, dear; I don’t think I caught your name.”

I place her things on the desk and extend my hand to her. “I’m Mia.”

“The Mia?” she asks as she shakes my hand. “Well, I had no idea that was you at the coffee shop that day. Isn’t this just wonderful, you and Cooper, together again?”

She certainly has my curiosity piqued. The Mia? What exactly has Cooper told this woman about me? Why has he told her about me at all?

“We were never together,” I correct her. His words, not mine.

“Oh please,” she says with a snort. “The man has been on edge since you came back to town. Whatever it is, there’s something going on.”

“We’re just co-workers, I assure you.” I refuse to be any more than that. I refuse to make the same mistake again when clearly; he is the same boy that I walked away from over six years ago.

“I know Cooper better than to believe that. He may say one thing, but his eyes say another,” Edith tells me as she shakes a finger in my direction. Her words strike home with me.

“Yes, exactly. What is it with him?” I ask but immediately regret my words. Edith is his friend, his assistant. I shouldn’t be commiserating with her. Anything I say will only get back to Cooper and cause more trouble. “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said that.”

“Don’t be. I was actually hoping you could tell me why. I have tried to get him to tell me where his stupid I rule against being in a relationship came from.”

“Beats me,” I tell the woman who genuinely seems confused. “The man is impossible.” I leave out the other choice descriptions I use for him.

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