My Forever Plus-One by Shannyn Schroeder

Author:Shannyn Schroeder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Women's Humorous Fiction; Family Life Fiction; Women's Fiction; Friendship Fiction; American Humorous Fiction; Contemporary American Fiction; General Humorous Fiction; Chicago; Best Friends to Lovers Romance; Entangled Publishing; Shannyn Schroeder; August; Second Chance Romance; Popular Romance; Series Romance; Firefighter Romance; Divorce; over 40 romance;
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

After the weekend of festivities, Owen and Evelyn flew back home late Sunday night. He had to be on shift Monday morning, so Evelyn said she’d get Probie from the kennel. She’d skipped coffee with the New Beginnings crew because she was exhausted. Nina and Tess sent a couple texts teasing her for avoiding them, but she promised details soon.

Her morning at the studio had been pretty much what she’d expected. Harry already had her resignation papers drawn up. She signed and left. She’d thought it would be more stressful, but she felt eerily fine. The next two days she spent talking with Marilyn about the show and developing a list of ideas.

The more she had prepared, the more attractive the show would be. Evelyn hesitated sending the pitch to Donald. If she worked with him, it might make Owen a little crazy; he really hated her ex. Although Donald hadn’t been a very good husband, he’d always been an excellent producer. He created magic with every idea he gave the green light to. It didn’t mean she necessarily wanted to work with him. Part of her worried about him taking control of everything. And this was her baby, not his. Donald would never be like Owen. He couldn’t step back and let her do her thing.

She’d been spending every night at Owen’s house, but tonight, she was at her place to get ready for the networking event. Owen said he’d pick her up as soon as he got off his overtime shift, assuming, of course, no calls came in. He’d been grabbing a few extra shifts when asked. Normally it didn’t bother her. Tonight she prayed for a quiet evening. She really wanted him at her side.

At eight thirty, he was calling from the door to let her know he was there. She slid into her pumps and walked into the living room.

“Wow,” he said.

“I’m sure you’ve seen me wear this before,” she said, looking down at her outfit. It was her favorite little black dress.

“Probably. But I could never do this before.” He pulled her into his arms and kissed her. He wrapped one hand around her nape, and the other cupped her ass, bringing her flush against him.

When he broke the kiss, she realized that she had a tight grip on the lapel of his jacket. She smoothed it out. “I think wow is an understatement.”

“You saw me in this suit for Tess’s engagement.”

“I was talking about the kiss.”

“I can do better than that.”

“I bet you can, but we have to go. We’ll be fashionably late enough that all the people I want to talk to should be there and well-lubricated with alcohol, but not so drunk they don’t remember our conversation.”

He shook his head. “Always scheming.”

“Not scheming. Finessing.”

His face said he wasn’t buying any of it, but he wasn’t part of this industry. In his world, he took people as he saw them. People in TV had their own special dance of schmoozing. You never knew when you’d need a favor from someone, so there was always a fine veneer on every interaction.

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