Powerful: A Driven World Novel (The Driven World) by Kathleen Kelly & KB Worlds

Author:Kathleen Kelly & KB Worlds [Kelly, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KB Worlds LLC
Published: 2020-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Athena

Two nights of bliss. We haven’t left the house, but it’s Friday, the day before the wedding, and Ashlea and Mom are waiting for me at my parents’ house. Ashlea wants to make sure my dress is perfect, and she wants a trial run in hers. We’re doing the dress, the heels, the veil, everything. She was supposed to move in with me, but TB couldn’t be without her. But it’s the night before the wedding, and Mom has put her foot down, either Ashlea moves in with me for the night, or she stays with them. Wisely, she chose me.

“Penny for your thoughts?” asks Kris as he puts a cup of tea in front of me.

“I can’t stay, and you have to go.”

“Can I drive you?” I nod. “I have to check in on Dad, but I can come back later?”

“No, lover, you can’t. Ashlea will be here, remember?”

A smirk appears on his handsome face. “If you could be quiet, she’d never know.”

I take a sip of the pomegranate tea he’s made. “Where’s the fun in that?”

Kris chuckles, his eyes twinkle with mischief. “It’s that, or you sleep alone, and there’s no fun in that.”

We’re sitting in my walled garden, the sun is shining, and I don’t want to leave, nor do I want Kris to go, but family and the wedding have to come first. I stand and run a hand across his shoulders.

“Come on, lover, let’s go.”

“Do you have a to-go cup?” Kris asks as he picks up my teacup.

“Yeah, I think so? In the overhead cupboard next to the microwave.”

Wandering back into the house, Kris goes into the kitchen, and I go into my bedroom to grab my handbag. When I come out, Kris has a photograph and a piece of paper on the kitchen table. As I get closer, he holds out my tea and gestures to them.

“How long were you in New York for?”

For a moment, I stop breathing. My eyes go to the offending documents, and I feel my throat close.

“W-What?”

He holds up a picture of me at my job in New York, my colleagues surrounding me. It feels like a lifetime ago—I’m smiling. It was taken after my first big story broke before I was attacked. I’d forgotten it was even in the cupboard. I’d forgotten I had kept it.

Kris is searching my face, his eyebrows draw together in concern. “Athena?”

I take the picture and the paper and put them back in the cupboard.

With my back to him and my hand frozen on the closed door, I mentally shake myself and say, “It was a long time ago.”

“You looked happy.”

“How did you know it was taken in New York?”

Slowly, I turn around, and he shakes his head. “The name, the name of the company, was on the piece of paper. Their offices are in New York.”

Cocking my head to the side, my lips turn down. “They have offices all over the country.”

Kris crosses his arms. “But their head office is in New York.

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