Long Road Home by Stacey Lynn

Author:Stacey Lynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780996275187
Publisher: Stacey Lynn Books

Sixteen

Jordan

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Running a business was no fucking joke. When I first started the Carlton Resort and Spa I assumed at some point, I’d be able to spend most of the time on the course, or talking up members at the restaurant. Instead, I spent most of the days dealing with vendors falling through on previously made deals and a management staff with little spine to force it through. Don’t get me wrong, my employees, all of them were fantastic people. Good-hearted, strong working Midwest American grit and bone. That didn’t mean they had guts when it came to standing up to someone deciding to jack our costs fifteen percent only a few months after signing on the dotted line.

Which also meant since this wasn’t Pam’s first time refusing to do this part of her job, I would soon be looking for a new Food and Beverage Manager.

Just what I needed after the week I’d had, trying to figure out what in the hell to do with Destiny and Toby. She was as beautiful as ever and every time I saw her a burn ignited in my chest, slowly spreading south of my belt.

Time to forgive her, to push through the carousel of luggage we had between us, wasn’t on my side.

She was still planning on leaving at the end of the summer which meant I had weeks to try to convince my skittish ex that taking a chance on me would be the best decision she ever made.

And then there was Toby. Every time I saw him or talked to him, it killed me to hang up the phone. How in the hell did I worm my way into the life of a ten-year-old kid who called me Jordan instead of Dad?

Parenting was so far outside my wheelhouse it wasn’t funny. Plus the fact he didn’t know I existed for the first decade of his life made it worse.

What I wouldn’t give to be outside, club in my hand and sweat trickling down my back where the irritation of a sand trap or misaligned putt were my biggest frustrations.

I blew out a breath, refocused on the vendor reports and contracts and was finally in the work mindset when my assistant, Alicia, opened my door.

She peeked her head in, blonde hair bouncing on her shoulders and glanced back at the reception area. She turned slowly back to me.

“Yes?” I asked.

Her face had some weird pinched look she never wore, and I was already pushing away from my desk and standing before I asked, “What is it? What’s wrong?”

“Um. There are people here to see you.”

“So let them in.” Swear to God. If I had to tell one more person how to do their job today—

“It’s a woman and boy.”

“And?”

“She said it’s your son.”

Oh. That. “Yeah. He’s mine. Thanks, Alicia.”

“It’s just that, I’ve worked here for three years now, and you’ve never mentioned.”

I pulled my door open. It fell out of her hands and made her jump backward. “That’s because I didn’t know.

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