Sensational by Janet Nissenson

Author:Janet Nissenson [Nissenson, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Inevitable
Amazon: B0153ZMBR6
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2015-11-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

November – New York City

“Hey, Ben. Robert McKinnon is asking to see you. He knows he doesn’t have an appointment but was hoping you could spare him just a few minutes.”

At Kym’s very unexpected announcement, Ben’s attention was immediately diverted from the pile of paperwork on his desk – the pile that never seemed to get any smaller no matter how many hours he devoted to it.

“He’s actually here in the office?” asked Ben incredulously. “Not just on the phone?”

“Sitting right across from me,” confirmed Kym in a hushed tone.

Once again Ben’s mind began to wander in half a dozen different directions about what Lauren’s father could possibly want to speak to him about. But even as he tried to come up with a plausible reason, he found himself tidying the various stacks of papers into one neat pile, and telling Kym, “Okay. Give me about two minutes and then send him in.”

“You got it.”

As he hurried to finish straightening up his desk, Ben glanced at his computer monitor and was startled to note it was already past four o’clock. It had been a relatively quiet day, save for the mounds of paperwork he was trying to catch up on, but he had figured that things would be low key given that it was only two days before Thanksgiving. The office was barely half staffed, with no one currently out on assignment, and would be closed starting tomorrow for a few days. He was determined to finish everything up by tonight so that he and Elle could leave town at a decent hour tomorrow. They were spending the holiday weekend with friends of hers who owned a sprawling estate in the Hamptons, and he wasn’t especially looking forward to it. They had spent last Thanksgiving with Katrina and Duncan, too, and Ben had felt very much out of place in their opulent mansion. Their “little holiday gathering” had wound up including over two dozen people, and he’d struggled for a good part of the time to pretend he was enjoying himself. All he had really wanted was to eat a hearty turkey dinner, put his feet up, and watch football for a few hours. Instead, he’d made small talk with a lot of pretentious snobs and tried his damndest not to let Elle know how miserable he was, especially since she was so obviously enjoying herself. Needless to say, a repeat performance of last year was just about the last thing he wanted to do this holiday weekend.

But he was trying, really trying, to work on his relationship with Elle, to do more things that made her happy, and therefore circumvent any of her little emotional upheavals and upsets. And things had been considerably calmer as of late, though part of that was because both of them had been traveling on business and hadn’t seen much of each other. Her parents had just left town this past weekend after an extended visit, and Elle always kept her emotions well in check when they were around.

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