Her Unexpected Match by Lacey Baker

Author:Lacey Baker
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 2022-11-04T11:59:07+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Kerry Lennon stepped inside Ryan’s living room, and Optimus danced around her, waiting for a touch, a word of greeting, anything that would acknowledge him in some way. While Ryan closed the door with a resounding click and turned to look at her, confirming that she was indeed here, alive and well, on Crescent Island once again.

“It’s so good to see you, Ryan,” she said when she stopped to stand in front of his couch.

She wore a coral pantsuit, a beige blouse beneath the jacket, and beige high-heeled shoes. Her coal-black hair was longer than he recalled, falling in bone-straight strands past her shoulders. The face that had once been so familiar to him was now layered with makeup—long lashes, coppery eyeshadow, and red lips.

“It’s a surprise to see you, Kerry.” He couldn’t think of another response, not one that didn’t run the line of rude or salty. And he didn’t want to be either.

She slipped the matching tote bag from her shoulder and set it on the couch. The sleeves of her jacket had been rolled up to her elbow, and she pushed a curtain of hair back from her face as she lowered herself to sit.

“I know I was the last person you expected to see today,” she said.

That was an understatement. Just as seeing her, in this very personal space he’d built for himself, wasn’t quite right.

He moved farther into the living room, not taking a seat but standing a few feet away from her near the leather recliner he liked to lounge in when he was watching television in this room. Optimus followed him, as unsure about Kerry, who still hadn’t acknowledged him at this point, as Ryan was.

“Why are you here?” Candid wasn’t the same as being rude. Nana had told him that when he was younger.

She crossed one leg over the other and sat back. “I’m here to make your life better.”

He couldn’t help it—he chuckled. “You? The person who all but destroyed my life five years ago is now here to make it all better? Do tell how you plan to make that happen.”

Old emotions—rage, hurt, betrayal—bubbled in the pit of his stomach, and he fisted his hands by his sides.

“Okay,” she said with a sigh. “I guess we need to get this out of the way first.” She cleared her throat. “You’re still upset that I chose my life over living the one you had planned out for me.”

Ryan shook his head. “Correction. I’m still baffled that the future we planned together was so easily dismissed the moment you received a job offer in the city. A job, I might add, that you actively pursued without even telling me.”

Which had been a special kind of hurt all in itself. They’d dated on and off for the first two years after he’d finished undergrad, then became more serious once he’d received his master’s degree and officially assumed his role as the manager at Parker BBQ. She’d graduated from college by then, too,

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