Perfect Partner by Kate Stone

Author:Kate Stone [Stone, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX - Jesse

“Hey, we need to talk. I’m really sorry about everything that’s happened. This is not how I’d planned on things going. I never meant for it to look like I was using you or taking advantage of you. You are the first person I’ve connected with in a long, long time, Jesse. Please call me back. I can get this cleaned up, but I need to know you’ll be at my side when I do it.”

Owen had left several voicemails over the last few days. Everything had blown up in my face. I knew – from the moment I walked in, I knew – that I was walking into a volatile situation between those two. I didn’t know if she wanted him or his business, or maybe even both, but my heart didn’t have to be a casualty in their fight.

“Jesse, please. I’m sorry,” he said in his last voicemail. It was all he said, the defeat in his voice creeping through the phone.

Then, there came a knock. Not at my front door, but at my back door. I knew who it was immediately. See, there were a couple of reporters watching my townhouse out front, so in order to get in without being seen, Owen had to come around back. But why was he there? As far as I was concerned, his problems had nothing to do with me, now that I had walked out on my job and my problems had everything to do with needing a new job.

When I pulled back the curtain from the window in my backdoor, I saw him standing on the stoop. He wore a dark gray t-shirt and jeans, not a suit. He glanced at me through the glass with his disarming eyes, but his smile was gone. His messy hair hadn’t been styled like he did it for work. He could have used a good shave, but honestly, the stubble only added to his down-to-Earth look. Looking at him like that, I didn’t feel like I’d just walked out on my job. I felt like I’d walked out on the only man who’d ever seen me for who I was, the only man who appreciated everything I brought to the table.

Get it together, I told myself, taking a deep, steadying breath. I’d only known the guy for a few weeks. Why did I already have feelings for him? Why had I allowed things to go as quickly as they had? Why did it hurt to see him stuck out there like that, sneaking around to the back of my house to talk to me?

I believed that love wasn’t for me. I’d been used, taken advantage of, and forgotten by a number of men in my life. I had been overlooked and completely ignored by many more. I had never been admired or pursued by anyone like Owen, a man who could have his pick of supermodels, a man who could have anything he wanted, any powerful, wealthy woman, any beautiful face and sexy body.

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