Never Let Me Go by Elena Aitken

Author:Elena Aitken [Aitken, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989685549
Publisher: Elena Aitken

Chase was only about halfway through his six-month banishment to Trickle Creek, and it was getting harder and harder to lie to his boss about where he was and why he wasn’t coming back to the office. He’d done his best with the Clearwater account, and frankly, Chase was proud of his work. His clients were happy, and if they’d noticed any difference in the quality of work delivered because he was working remotely, they hadn’t mentioned it.

At least not to him.

To his surprise, Chase was also finding more and more that he didn’t really care whether they had an issue with it. And more specifically, whether Bruce had an issue with it. Sure, he had full intentions to return to the city and to work in a few months…at least, he thought he did.

It was a decision that every day didn’t seem quite as clear as it once had, and the time he’d been spending with Annie had a whole lot to do with that. If she was in Trickle Creek, would he want to stay?

But she’d told him repeatedly that she, too, was looking forward to moving on from the small town. Would she come with him? Did he want her to? Would he ask her to?

He was so wrapped up in the questions rushing through his head that Chase didn’t bother looking at the caller ID on his phone when it rang. If he had, he would have sent the call to voice mail the way he had with all the others that had come in over the last week.

“Carlson,” he answered the phone.

“It’s about fucking time I got you on the phone.”

Shit.

There’d been a reason he was avoiding Bruce’s calls.

“Where the fuck are you, Carlson?”

And…that was exactly why he’d been avoiding his boss’s calls. Because one of two things would happen: Chase was either going to have to lie, again. Or agree to going back to the city.

Neither option felt like it would result in a positive outcome. Still, it clearly could no longer be avoided.

“I’m still dealing with—”

“Do not tell me you’re dealing with family stuff, Chase. For three years, I never heard about a family. Not even one time, and now all of a sudden, they’re so damn important that you’re willing to throw your whole career in the toilet for them? I call bullshit.”

Chase bristled. His family was important. They always had been. And true, maybe he hadn’t even realized how much so until recently, but he’d be damned if anyone was going to talk about them like that.

“Careful, Bruce. My family is—”

“Yeah, yeah.” His boss cut him off, and Chase bit his tongue.

His job might already be on the line; he didn’t need to put the final nail in the coffin over something so stupid.

Instead, he shifted gears. “I don’t think Clearwater had any issues with the fact that I handled their account remotely,” he said. “The projections are pretty damn positive, and they’ve implemented most of the changes I suggested in my report.

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