Holding Her Breath (Indigo) by Green Nicole

Author:Green, Nicole [Green, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781585714834
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp
Published: 2011-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17: Not Gonna

Erika gave boxing lessons at a local gym that she owned. Whitney often got free workout sessions as a result. With the way work had been going lately, she really needed to work out some aggression. She’d been grateful when she’d called and Erika had said she had an open slot.

“Dang, girl. You trying to break my hand?” Erika joked after one of Whitney’s jabbing sessions. “Something’s got you more keyed up than usual. What is it? Work? Chace?”

“Why would you say Chace? Why would you automatically assume that?” Whitney said, aware that her response probably gave her away.

“Just that you spend every moment of free time with him these days. Not that you have all that much of it. If he’s not with you when I see you, you’re talking about him. And that’s not even mentioning your hot New Year’s kiss. That was something. I’m surprised you didn’t burn down the whole club with the fire from that kiss.” Erika put her punch mitts aside, and they went over to the punching bags.

“I do not want to talk about that kiss.” Whitney punctuated every word with a blow to the punching bag that Erika held for her.

“So you keep telling me.”

“And what do you mean, every moment? He’s only been in town a couple weeks and he doesn’t know anyone. What am I supposed to do, just abandon him?”

“Don’t get so defensive. I was just making an observation.”

Whitney stopped punching and pulled off her gloves with a heavy sigh. “I’m sorry. It’s just—work is stressing me out. And Aunt Cheryl’s stressing Mom out, like always, so she’s stressing me out. And this Chace situation. It’s more complicated than I even want to think about.”

Erika sat down on a weight bench and patted the space next to her. “So come tell me about it.”

Whitney plunked down next to her and buried her head in her hands.

“Kim is on the warpath with this case. The absolute warpath. Any time something goes wrong or looks like it might go wrong, she’s ready with a finger to point at me,” she said. “She has Andersen, the practice group leader, thinking I’m the devil. I’m always exhausted. I’m staying out way too late with Chace way too many nights of the week I don’t get nearly as much work done on the weekends as I used to. The weekends used to be my time to get ahead on things.” She shook her head. “What’s wrong with me?” she moaned, pressing her hands tighter to her face.

“Oh, my goodness. I think I know,” Erika said. Whitney looked up to see Erika with her hand over her heart, an exaggerated look of shock on her face. “A life. She finally has a life.”

Whitney laughed. “Shut up. You’re useless.”

“Seriously. This is the most I’ve heard you talk about anything outside of that job. And the most I’ve heard of you doing things outside of that job. Chace is good for you. Maybe he’s

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