Herons Landing by Joann Ross

Author:Joann Ross [Ross, Joann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2018-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

SETH ARRIVED AT Kylee and Mai’s house before his father. Deciding his old man must’ve gone fishing—he’d been talking about wanting to get out on the rivers and it wasn’t as if he was needed today—he walked through the rooms one last time, making sure everything was in order. Which it was. All it needed now was a final cleaning and polish, which was about to happen when the bright blue Highlander with The Clean Team written on it pulled up outside.

Megan Larson, who’d been a couple years behind him in school, jumped out, wearing a T-shirt with her business’s logo on the front and a pair of crisply pressed jeans.

“So, you finished ahead of schedule,” she said as she popped open the back of the Highlander and began pulling out a bucket, mop and various other tools. “Never thought that would happen.”

“You doubted me?”

“Not you,” she said. “But I’ve watched Kylee and Mai in action just choosing what movie to go to while standing in line. I figured you’d spend a third of your time in negotiations.”

“They were great clients.”

She laughed at that. “I’ll bet you say that about everyone.”

“Of course I do.” He helped her get the rest of the stuff out of the SUV. A toddler’s car seat was strapped down in the back seat. At the moment it was being used to hold a mesh bag of microrags.

Megan had dated Gabe for a few weeks, but since his goal had always been New York City, she’d ended up marrying a local guy shortly after high school. Jake Larson seemed to spend a lot of time at the casino while she’d attended Clearwater CC, taking business courses, because it was obvious that her husband, who was always into some crazy get-rich scheme he’d read about on the internet, was not going to be able to support a family on his own. Or at all.

She’d been three months pregnant when Jake had left town with the female partner in his latest venture, flipping houses after he’d cleaned out their savings account and maxed out their credit cards paying for seminars assuring him that he and his partner/lover would be the next HGTV stars. Leaving Megan with an empty bank account and creditors calling day and night until Quinn, who was still licensed to practice law in Washington, had written a cease-and-desist letter for what had been harassment. He’d also used some legal eagle stuff to extricate her from the expenses Jake had taken on after he’d run off, and he handled her divorce pro bono.

Megan had moved back in with her parents, and from what he’d seen, she was a lot happier than she’d been when married to the dickwad.

“I’m lucky that all my clients are good ones,” she said. “The ones who aren’t, I fire because they’re not worth the effort, you know?”

“I definitely know that.” Looking back on it, there’d been something sketchy about both couples who’d bailed on Herons Landing. But at the

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