High Society Secrets by Karen Booth

Author:Karen Booth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-07-08T19:46:05+00:00

Nine

It had been a hell of a week and it was only Thursday. Astrid couldn’t stop thinking about her conversation with Clay and everything he had been through. She liked him—a lot—but did she really want that much trouble in her life? Her existence with Johnathon had been hard. Years of vying for his attention and affection, month after month of infertility treatments, and ultimately, the realization that the love between them turned into something far less warm and caring than she ever would have wanted. What if that happened again?

At work, she and Clay had returned to their old dynamic, but there was a layer of unease in the air that hadn’t been there before. That was saying a lot—their interactions before LA had been plenty uncomfortable at times. Perhaps it was all in her head and Clay wasn’t thinking about her at all, or about the things she’d lobbed back in his court. She hoped that wasn’t the case and that he’d taken at least some of it to heart. Yes, he had been hurt, badly. But he wasn’t the only one carrying around battle scars. At some point, he was going to have to admit that he might not be protecting his heart. He might be slowly smothering it to death.

For tonight, Astrid would have a distraction from her turmoil over Clay. Tara and Miranda were coming over for dinner. That was fraught with its own complications. Miranda had figured out what happened between Astrid and Clay. Astrid was legitimately surprised she hadn’t received a phone call about it during the week, but she was certain that meant it was going to come up in conversation. With Tara there, Astrid wasn’t sure how it would all shake out.

Tonight would mark the first time the wives had ever met at Astrid’s penthouse apartment in downtown San Diego. All previous gatherings of the three wives had happened at Tara’s or Miranda’s, aside from the times they’d convened at places like Ruby’s to shop for Astrid’s dress, or on much sadder occasions like Johnathon’s funeral or the lawyer’s office for the reading of his will.

That day seemed as though it had happened a decade ago, but it had only been a few months. Astrid had never bargained on becoming business partners with either of them, let alone both, but that had been exactly what happened when Johnathon split his shares of Sterling Enterprises between them. For the most part, she liked Tara and Miranda very much, and she was grateful that he had managed to bring them together after his death. Was that what he had always wanted? For the three of them to be friends? She could see his ego trying to engineer that—three women he’d once loved, united because of him. In her mind, it was an awfully prideful pursuit, but that was Johnathon—he bent the world to suit his needs. Astrid needed to take a page out of Johnathon’s book and start doing the same for herself.

Astrid’s

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