Harlequin Desire July 2016, Box Set 1 of 2 by Maureen Child

Author:Maureen Child
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781488006289
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Fighting tears, Terri drove down the canyon. She hadn’t planned her farewell outburst. She’d wanted to leave Buck on friendly terms, not like this, in a storm of hurt and anger.

Should she apologize? Tell Buck she’d changed her mind and wanted more time to make plans? No, Terri told herself. What was done was done. The break she’d both needed and dreaded had been made. Why go back, and then have to do it again when the time came?

She’d meant to drive straight home. But her preoccupied mind hadn’t been paying attention. By the time she realized where she was going, she was almost at the hotel complex that housed the Bucket List office. She slowed the Jeep, debating with herself. She was tired and she’d just made an emotional decision. She’d be wise to go home, get some rest and let things settle before taking action.

But why take the chance that she could go soft and change her mind? The office was empty now. She could let herself in, write up her resignation letter and leave it on Buck’s desk. She could also go through her emails, deleting all but the most essential, and clean her personal items out of her desk. Buck would arrive in the morning to find her gone and everything in order.

She’d left the Jeep and was unlocking the office door when another wave of doubt overtook her. For the past ten years, her life had revolved around helping Buck run his business and his life. Now change was coming. She owed it to herself to let that change happen. She needed it to happen.

Still, letting go of everything familiar would be like closing her eyes and stepping off a precipice.

For almost half her life she’d been in love with Buck Morgan. She’d let her imagination build him into a romantic hero, excusing his faults and cleaning up after his mistakes. But tonight had opened her eyes and slammed her against the hard wall of reality. The man was an insensitive jerk with skewed priorities. The people who cared most about him—especially Quinn—were the ones he took most for granted. No wonder he’d never remarried after Diane. And no wonder his daughter had left the house this afternoon.

Walk away, she told herself as she turned the key in the lock. Now, while the door’s open, walk away and don’t look back.

It took her fifteen minutes to bring up her computer, compose a brief, impersonal letter of resignation and send it to the printer. It took another fifteen minutes to clean out her inbox and shut down her computer, collect a few personal items in a cardboard box, sign the letter, and leave it on Buck’s desk, where he’d see it first thing tomorrow.

After securing Buck’s door, she picked up the cardboard box, locked the outer office and walked to her Jeep. She’d put out some feelers a few days ago and already had a couple of job offers. After her grandmother was buried, she would make a final decision and start packing.

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