Imperfect Love: Tied (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Kim Karr

Author:Kim Karr [Karr, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-06-04T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

It Wasn’t My Fault

James

South of Houston Street wasn’t where I expected to end up.

In my bed, with the woman I married, was where I thought I would have been by that time of the day. After all, Lindsay and I were technically on our honeymoon. We should have been fucking like animals.

I leaned my head back against the seat, still holding the phone to my ear as her voicemail clicked on once again. “Lindsay, pick up the Goddamn phone, I need to talk to you.”

Frustrated, I tossed my phone on the seat and looked out the window in front of me. I’d already called her five times. For a Sunday afternoon, traffic was stop and go like it was rush hour.

Anger splintered in my mind. What the fuck had just happened? How the hell had I let my mother play me?

Emmy.

That’s how.

Fucking Emmy Lane.

My on-again, off-again, off-again girlfriend. And I used the term loosely. She was always more like a fuck buddy. My mother though, she saw her as the perfect wife for me. She was an heiress after all, and tying together our two families was like her wet dream.

I, however, was not interested. Not in the 9th grade when Emmy and I had met, not in college when we’d dated, and not over the years when she’d continually made her play for me.

Emmy Lane was a piece of work. She had so many issues, but like I said, she was a publishing heiress—and that was what mattered to my mother.

She was an heiress who refused to learn what it would take to run a long list of publications owned by her family. She, instead, wanted to be an actress, not a business tycoon. And because of her resistance to learn the family business, her parents were not on board with her plan to relocate to LA. She had yet to get the big break she was waiting for. Yet that hadn’t stopped her from dreaming. Swan Publishing might have been her family legacy, but her passion was acting and I had thought she still hoped someday she would be a star.

Her parents held her trust fund over her head to keep her in New York. Soon though, like me, when she turned thirty, she would have complete ownership. She’d always told me that’s when she’d be gone.

But after her little stunt today, I had to wonder if her plans had changed. Was she looking to get hitched?

I picked up my phone again and hit redial. This time when it went to voicemail, I didn’t bother to leave a message.

At twenty minutes past three, I walked into the building Lindsay had taken me to yesterday. I didn’t bother to buzz her apartment. Chances were good she wouldn’t let me up. Instead I buzzed three others. One buzzed me in.

Once I reached the second floor, I took the ten or so steps to her door, and knocked on it.

Predictably, there was no answer.

I knocked again. “Lindsay, it’s me, open the door, I want to explain.

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