Harlequin Romance April 2023 Box Set by Susan Meier

Author:Susan Meier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

JESSIE STARED AT the brochures laid out on the coffee table, her open laptop perched in the centre, and sighed. She was getting nowhere.

Her inheritance from Mum gave her options. It meant she could go back to university, study something new, extend her career break...but she was struggling to feel inspired.

She feared the ability to feel the fire in her veins, the excitement, the thrill of something new, had gone away with Joel and she wouldn’t get it back.

That and the fact that every time she thought of moving on she inevitably thought of Joel and everything he’d done for her to get her to this point. The joy he’d brought her, the confidence, the fight to go after what she wanted...

And how had she repaid him?

By feeding his guilt over abandoning his family and his business, meddling in his life, and then backing him into a corner after only a few weeks of knowing him by declaring her love for him. Declaring her love when she’d known he was still in love with Katie.

It hadn’t been fair, and heaven knew what damage she’d inflicted. Yes, she had a broken heart, but what about Joel...?

The only saving grace was that she knew he’d attended his sister’s engagement party—she’d seen the pictures in the press to prove it. And he’d looked good. Too good. But she’d been starved of him for a month. He could look haggard and she’d still be mooning over him.

He’d been into the office too. Hannah had told her on one of the few occasions she’d dared ask after him.

All good signs, surely?

So why didn’t that make her feel any better?

You know why...because he’s moving on with his life just as he promised, and all without you.

She ignored the voice and reached for her phone, brought up his contact details, something she did numerous times a day, and fought the same battle—just one message. One message to see how he was, to reassure herself, to say sorry for overstepping and...and then what?

She threw her phone down with a groan and flopped back on the sofa. She’d done enough damage, said enough, confessed enough...

She should be moving on just as he so clearly was.

Molly, her mother’s cat, rubbed up against her knee, its meow as pathetic as she felt. ‘Yeah, yeah, I know, honey.’ She scratched her head. ‘We don’t need a stinky man to make us happy but—’

The doorbell rang and Molly scarpered. She checked her watch. It was a bit late for cold-callers and the few friends she had in the village would usually message before coming round.

Scraping her hair back into a messy bun, she headed for the door...her oversized sweater decent enough if a little threadbare. Her bunny slippers perhaps a little less so.

She could see the outline of someone tall through the glass. Someone tall and broad and very definitely male.

‘Have you sent me a stinky man?’ she said to her mother’s picture on the console table in the hall, unlatching the door and tugging it open a crack.

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