I Think I Love You by Bond Stephanie

Author:Bond, Stephanie [Bond, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: NeedtoRead Books
Published: 2011-10-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

DO rehearse your "I'm over you" reunion scene.

Justine sat on the side porch smoking her third cigarette since the attorney had left. Dammit, dammit, dammit. Everything that had ever gone wrong in her life she could trace back to one sister or another. It was obvious that Regina had blabbed the story to her fling thing and he'd promptly reported it to his brother. The man had probably come to town under the guise of appraising just to sniff around for local gossip that might help the case. If she got bogged down in a resurrected murder trial, she'd be fired for sure. And what kind of a recommendation letter was she going to get after she'd slept with the husband of the vice president of human resources?

She took a deep drag on the cigarette. She should've gone to Florida or to the Bahamas for a few days and found a tall beach bum to help her forget her troubles. She still wasn't sure what she'd been hoping for when she came back to Monroeville—maybe the warm fuzzies of having her parents all to herself like the three precious years before Regina came along. Just her luck and timing that Cissy and John would decide to split up this very week. And as for her father, well, she truly had believed him to be above the debauchery of most men. Tears welled in her eyes at the thought of lost father-daughter moments—those, too, seemingly stolen by Mica, John's little darling. Because when she'd absconded with Dean for LA, instead of offering Justine a shoulder to cry on, John had grieved for Mica.

She blew a stream of smoke into the air and scoffed at her genuine—albeit sappy—reason for returning home: the hope that she'd rediscover the basically good-hearted, loving girl she'd once been. Here was where she'd left that girl, the moment she discovered Dean and Mica's betrayal.

No one knew what she'd gone through those first few months. Regina had escaped to Boston to her new job. Cissy and John, as usual, were so wrapped up in each other that they hadn't paid her much attention. In their defense, they had never been demonstrative parents and didn't know how to help her through a traumatic experience that one of their other children had created. Meanwhile, all her own friends had gone off to college and exciting careers, which she had forsaken to be near Dean. Suddenly she was a jilted twenty-five-year-old with no prospects, and the only real talent she had was helping Tate Williams pretty up the corpses in his funeral home when his cosmetologist wife, Sarah, went to visit her mother in Atlanta.

"You have a real knack," Tate had told her. "These people didn't look this good when they were alive."

But since she hadn't wanted to work on stiffs the rest of her life, she'd answered an ad for a Cocoon makeup representative. Her life became a blur of home makeup parties, which she'd hosted in a much-laundered yellow suit.

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