Rebound by Sophia Summers & Rebecca Connolly & Heather B. Moore

Author:Sophia Summers & Rebecca Connolly & Heather B. Moore [Summers, Sophia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-11T06:00:00+00:00

16

Summer listened from her office to the ladies at the checkout desk signing up children for the winter reading program. She’d just finished setting up the new display as people entered the library. And now she was working on ordering the next batch of books for the kid-lit department. J. Scott Savage had a new middle grade title coming out, and the library had already had a stream of requests. She wanted to make sure they got the book as soon as it became available.

Then she pulled up her email. She always had a couple hours of her workday available to dedicate to her doctorate. Today, she was transcribing the pages of a young woman’s journal documenting her time in Czechoslovakia when the Iron Curtain fell. The differences between her life before and after were stark and informative to Summer’s thesis. The journal had been a gold mine, and she couldn’t wait to share it with the world.

Her email dinged. The subject line caught her eye. Fellowship opportunity in Prague. After clicking on it, she became even more excited. Two recipients would spend half their time studying in Prague and the other half at New York University. One year away, learning from a different culture and country and working with New York University—she knew she should jump at the chance, and she wanted to. Did Rocco ever play in New York City?

When had he started playing a role in her life choices? It didn’t matter when, she guessed. He was. Sort of. Except he couldn’t be. She’d waited for hours last night, sleeping by her phone, and he had never called.

So her phone was turned off in her purse, and she had half a mind to switch her number just to avoid the angsty stress of waiting for a call that might never come. She was a mess. Other people survived dating just fine. Why couldn’t she?

Rocco’s smile came into her mind. For the first time ever, she’d met a really great guy. She didn’t think she’d meet someone like him again, and she didn’t want to lose him.

But she didn’t feel like she really had him.

She was a mottled knot of emotion, and her phone was not coming out of her bag until she got home from work.

This fellowship would be amazing. She couldn’t let the possibility of a relationship with a man, who didn’t even call when he said he would, keep her from pursuing her dream. They weren’t anything official. He was just awesome. But she couldn’t wait around for something awesome to happen. Maybe it would, maybe it wouldn’t. She still had a life to live.

She began the application process right then. But she couldn’t hit submit.

The library was especially busy that morning. They had a storyteller for the children, and two adult groups were meeting in the conference rooms. They had taken the Christmas decorations down, and the place was a busy, goal-setting wonder. Summer left her office to go check out the goal clouds of all the kids participating in their contest.

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