Her Christmas Future by Tara Taylor Quinn

Author:Tara Taylor Quinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-07-15T21:52:10+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Martin worked fourteen hours on Sunday before attending a cocktail party that night to honor a newly elected politician who was supportive of legislation that would give tax breaks to Fishnet’s facilities. Since his organization wasn’t a school, and wasn’t part of the foster care system, but rather held guardianships until their kids turned eighteen or had agreements with the custodial parents, much like a boarding school would, they didn’t fit into existing tax break parameters in a lot of areas. He was hoping to see that fixed.

And on Monday, since Olivia had said she’d make the appointment with the Applegates to coincide with his schedule, he was flying to London for a series of meetings there to finalize plans for an exchange student program. And then it was on to Washington to lobby for funding for boarding of at-risk kids. As things currently stood, when underage kids came to Fishnet, because it was a private organization with ample funds, the young adults no longer qualified for welfare or some of the other government assistance programs. He was also meeting with a grant board while he was there and doing a friend a favor and speaking at a gathering of Ivy League techie grads about the dot-com he’d created as a poor college kid barely getting by.

In exchange, his friend was writing a sizable check to Fishnet.

There were dozens of other things on his schedule. A side trip to New York. And to Boston. Dinners. Parties. Financial meetings and meetings with officials to expand Fishnet into three more cities on the east coast. And then back to LA for a movie premiere.

He traveled alone, and yet, other than his time in the air or the few minutes he had in his hotel suites, he didn’t have a minute, or a meal, to himself.

His choice. His life fulfilled him. Energized him.

He wasn’t ever lonely or bored.

Or if he was, he was too busy to notice.

The week progressed as planned; his meetings were successful. He was using his life to leave the world, particularly the underserved young adults in it, a better place to grow and thrive. He was parenting in the way he could and was good at it.

And he kept waiting for Olivia to call. She’d texted once, to say that the Applegates were free Sunday, a week and a day after they’d talked. True to her word, she’d worked things around his schedule. She’d done what she’d said she’d do.

And nothing more.

Which left him far too much mental space for speculation apparently. The seconds throughout the day where his brain had a moment to itself, he’d think of Olivia, wondering how she was handling the idea of massive change to her life. Was she managing her fears?

He’d see a mother or a baby and be reminded that he had a child coming into the world. And draw a blank after that.

In a taxi one morning he found himself pondering the fact that she wanted the baby—when she’d been so adamantly against even a mention of the possibility all the years since Lily’s death.

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