Long Distance Love by Margaret Ethridge

Author:Margaret Ethridge [Ethridge, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781622371853
Publisher: Turquoise Morning Press
Published: 2013-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Labor of Love

Ellie was a woman on a mission. For four long hours she drove like a bat out of hell, daring the troopers along I-65 to try to stop her. Eight weeks. She’d survived another never-ending eight-week stretch without seeing Jack. Barely. Okay, not even barely. If she’d been stuck in Labor Day weekend traffic just one more hour, she might have spontaneously combusted. Luckily, she was heading into the city when most were trying to get out. The bottleneck broke free before she had to start ramming cars to get them out of her way.

Hunched over the steering wheel, she tried to ease the knots in her shoulders and neck, but they wouldn’t budge. These aches weren’t simply the accumulation of hours in the car following a stressful meeting with her Regional Manager. Something had to give, and that something was her. It had to be. She was the one who’d nearly blown everything she ever wanted sky-high.

At least, she hoped it was only nearly blown. These days it was hard to tell. Everything seemed okay between them. On the surface, anyway. They still talked every night. Jack still told her he loved her. It was just that things weren’t quite the same as they were before she visited over the July Fourth weekend, and a part of her feared they never would be again.

That afternoon at the Chatham Hotel-Indianapolis confirmed all of her suspicions. As she sat there waiting for her boss to give her the meeting he’d agreed to, she couldn’t help inspecting the hotel that used to be her second home through the eyes of the woman she was now. The woman she’d become because of Jack. Just two short years earlier, she left Indy heartbroken and seeking refuge in her work. The promotion that provided her means of escape led her to Little Rock, and in a roundabout way, to the man who changed everything.

She’d resisted. God knows she tried so hard to resist him. But after months of being pursued by Special Agent Jack Rudolph, the surrender of her heart seemed inevitable—as inevitable as he believed their future to be. But her feelings for him and his for her weren’t what tripped her up. Her downfall came when she let her fear give Jack cause to doubt her commitment to him.

Ellie hadn’t shared their relationship to her family. She’d kept Jack her secret while he planned to ask her to be his wife. She hadn’t told the people she loved first about the guy she loved most, and that hurt him. And in trying to keep her heart safe, she hurt herself even more. After all the fuss and furor, Jack didn’t pop the question, and she couldn’t blame him.

Ellie hooked a left and exhaled with a whoosh as she scanned the street. Cars parked bumper to bumper with barely an inch to spare. Her parallel parking skills were nowhere up to this level. She wasn’t sure she could handle this solo.

The last time she visited, she flew into O’Hare and Jack picked her up outside the baggage claim.

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