North Star - The Complete Series Box Set by Tracey Ward

Author:Tracey Ward [Ward, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“You’re in New York, you have to come see me.”

I grinned against my phone. “Oh do I? Am I legally required to see you?”

“I’ll write you a summons. I’m penning it now.”

“Well, when the judge signs it, I’ll consider it.”

“Are you really not coming?”

I chewed nervously on the edge of my fingernail, staring up at the ceiling of my hotel room. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to see Alexander. I actually really did. The problem was that we had ended things between us last year when he’d moved to New York to join a law firm, giving up the fun and sun of southern California for a very different lifestyle. I wasn’t sure he’d be the guy I remembered and if he wasn’t, then I wasn’t interested. He’d been borderline vanilla to begin with. If I went out to meet him only to find he was all suit and tie making Alex a dull boy, I’d regret wasting the perfume.

Then again, what did I have holding me here? Kellen and Laney were out at some fancy-bought-my-wedding-dress celebratory dinner together. Kellen had been forced into a suit that made him look his usual miserable suit wearing self, a look I was beginning to notice more and more. When they came back from their dinner and he was able to toss those clothes aside, he’d be ready to cut lose and I knew what that meant for me and the walls and the sleeping. There’d be none. Not for anyone. I wasn’t really down with that.

“Text me your address,” I told Alexander.

“I’ll send a car for you.”

“No, I’ll take a cab. Send the address.”

“Jenna, let me take—“

I froze, pausing halfway out of the bed and wondering if I was leaving after all.

“Are we doing this again right off the bat?” I asked edgily.

I heard him sigh. “No. Forget I said anything. Especially anything so awful as let me take care of you.”

“So we are doing this right now,” I said in a huff, falling back against the sheets.

“We’re not. I’m not. I’m done.”

“Are you sure?”

“Can I say one thing about it?”

“You’ve already said a couple things.”

“One more won’t kill you to hear. I don’t understand it. I never intended to steal your independence or make you less of who you are. I didn’t expect designer dresses and high heels. I would have been happy every day with your Converse and your tank tops.”

“Alex, we gave it a shot. I didn’t fit.”

“That was never my opinion.”

“It was mine. I didn’t feel right. Besides, you took off to New York and I had my job in the shop in Cali.”

“And there are no tattoo parlors in New York.”

I closed my eyes. “I’m staying home.”

“You’re not home. You’re in a hotel.” His voice softened, turning to that coaxing rumble that I fell for so many times before. “If you’d come to live with me like I asked, you could be home in ten minutes.”

“Is there a Jacuzzi tub in this home?”

“No, but I’ll draw you a bath and use a straw to blow bubbles in the water.

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