My Kinda Mess by Lacey Black

Author:Lacey Black [Smith, Darcey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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I use my lunch hour to run over to the office building where Chris Jacobson works. It’s on the main drag, only a few blocks away from the flower place Lexi’s oldest sister runs. Parking my old Blazer on the street, I’m hit with Christmas music piping from speakers beneath the awning of the gift shop as soon as I set foot on the sidewalk.

A bell dings as I step inside the brightly lit office with a tabletop Christmas tree displayed and garland hanging from the ceiling. An old desk is situated in the center of the room and is currently unoccupied. Not waiting to find out where the receptionist is, I head down the hallway, looking for the douche’s office. I pass an empty conference room, a supply room with a copy machine, and a small kitchenette.

At the end of the hall, I come to a door that sits ajar and raise my hand to knock. Before my knuckles connect with wood, I hear voices from within the room.

“I’m asking you politely, boy, to reconsider. You’re making it worse,” an older gentleman says.

“I don’t want this.” This voice I recognize as Chris’s.

“But she does. And you dragging your feet is upsetting her.”

“I can fix this, I know it.”

“Not anymore, you can’t. It’s over.”

“But…”

“No more buts. She wants out. She deserves to be happy. The only thing standing in the way of that is you.” There’s a dramatic pause and I find myself holding my breath. “Let her go. Sign the papers.”

Suddenly, it all falls into place. Orval is in there with Chris doing, well, the same thing I came to do. But he’s doing it the proper way. I was planning on using harsh words and my fists, if necessary.

“I love her.” The man who used to belong to Lexi sounds so small, so defeated.

“I know. I do too, and that’s why I’m here. She needs this, Chris. Let her go. Set her free to live the life she wants.”

“I was giving her everything. We had a home, nice cars. Hell, I was planning a surprise vacation to Fiji. We had everything,” Chris says softly.

“Did you really?” There’s another pause. “Sign the papers, Chris. Please.”

I don’t hear anything for several tense seconds over the blood pounding in my ears. And to top it off, I’m probably going to be discovered lurking in the hallway because my own heart is as loud as a fucking snare drum.

“Thank you,” Orval says, followed by the scraping of a chair against the tile floor.

Instead of giving them the opportunity to find me, I quickly backtrack to the front door and slip out into the crisp December air. When I reach my truck, I lean against the passenger door, wishing I had a cigarette. And I don’t even smoke.

“How much did you hear?” My attention is pulled to the elderly man in front of me with a twinkle in his eye and a sly grin on his face.

“Not much,” I answer. “Did

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