Life of the Party by Kris Fletcher

Author:Kris Fletcher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-12-07T15:59:24+00:00

Chapter Eleven

If he hadn’t been pressed so close to her, he wouldn’t have noticed the fleeting stiffness of her muscles. “Ah. I didn’t know.”

“Very few people did. See, I was so busy that we’d been engaged almost four months and I still hadn’t made time to tell my family.”

“Maybe I’m a cynic, but to me that sounds more like you weren’t certain about her, rather than simply being too busy.”

Funny, Meredith had said almost the same thing when she gave him back the ring. He knew it wasn’t true, but she hadn’t believed him.

“Anyway, I left the office at a decent hour and spent the night thinking about what I really wanted.”

“Which was?”

“To help people.” He laughed. “I know. Corny, but true.”

“You are such a Boy Scout.”

The kiss she applied to his nose told him that she didn’t have any problems with that.

“I wasn’t going to help anyone except the partners by staying where I was. I sat down and figured out what I had to do, and then I spent the next night talking to Meredith about it.”

“I assume Meredith was the fiancée.”

“Right.”

“You didn’t think that she should have been part of those initial plans?”

“I had to figure it out for myself before I could talk to her. None of it was carved in stone except the part about changing jobs. The rest was open to negotiation.”

“I take it she didn’t see things the same way.”

“There was a strong difference of opinion as to what I should be doing with my life.”

“Is that lawyer-speak for you had a huge fight and she threw the ring in your face?”

“I means, she was fine with helping people as long as it meant staying in New York. City, not state.”

“That’s a pretty far cry from mayor of Calypso Falls, Sparky.”

“Tell me about it.” Frankly, he couldn’t have been happier about that. “She suggested working with some philanthropic organizations, something like that, and I did look into them. Most of them were doing some excellent work and I definitely could have made a difference working with them. But as I went on the interviews and did my research, it became clearer and clearer to me that I needed something different. More hands-on.”

“Allow me to say that I am a huge fan of the hands-on part.”

Damn, this woman was good for his ego. “Stop interrupting. I’ll never get back to the office.”

She clamped that alluring mouth closed, but the way she curled against him, her hand tightening at his waist, told him that she would be totally fine with him sticking around for a bit longer.

If only he had more time

“Anyway, there I was, hunting for something that felt right for me in the city, starting to get the eye at work because I wasn’t putting in my usual sixty-plus hours each week, and then my grandmother died. I came home for the funeral. The plan was to come down, stay a day or two, and then go back. But I got here, and it was like .

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