Showing Jessie by JoMarie DeGioia

Author:JoMarie DeGioia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vacation romance, contemporary romantic comedy, family saga romance, opposites attract romantic comedy, nature and wildlife contemporary romance
Publisher: JoMarie DeGioia

Chapter 12

By the time Friday afternoon rolled around, Jessie was ready for the weekend. Yesterday afternoon Noah had sought her out and made a point of telling her how great the new furniture looked. He’d thanked her again, and she was tempted to ask him to dinner on Oliver’s gift card. In the end, she hadn’t. There was just something about the pull between them that put her on her guard. She had trouble focusing when he was around, too. Trouble thinking, really.

Hadn’t she told him out at the lakeshore that they wouldn’t fool around again? And yet, they had. She’d loved everything he’d done to her with those hands and that mouth. She’d wanted to kiss him…there, too. She’d been sincere when she’d said that, and the hunger on his face told her he’d be more than fine with that. It was just that she really didn’t know how to do it. Maybe she’d do some online research this weekend. She laughed to herself. Just imagine what kinds of ads would show up in her social media newsfeed after that little project!

She shut down her laptop and began her ritual of straightening her desk. As she packed up, she thought back to what she and Noah had talked about. Jeez, she was mortified every time she thought about how she’d gotten scared there for a minute. How could she even think about Mitch when she was with Noah?

Mitch had been a stalker. A controller. A bully. He’d check on her all the time, look into her search history online and thumb through her phone. He hadn’t liked it when she went anywhere with the people she worked with, so she’d stopped accepting their invitations until they didn’t ask anymore. He didn’t even like her hanging out with Shannon, which served to drive a deeper wedge between her and her sister. Five years later, they just didn’t have the comfort and closeness that she saw among all of the Chapman siblings.

She’d been with Mitch for four long months before he’d gotten tired of her. Belittled her. Told her she wasn’t worth his time. She’d cried that day, but not because she would miss him. No. That day was the best day of her life.

She put her laptop in her bag and stood, rolling her chair back under the desk. As she walked down the hall toward the lobby she ran into Tammy coming out of her office.

“Hey, girl,” Tammy said. “Noah told Ben you were a big help with the townhouse.”

“It was my pleasure.” Her cheeks heated at the double-entendre but she tried to ignore that. “The place was gorgeous with nothing in it, though. It was very easy dressing it up.”

Tammy smiled. “Yeah, I had a blast picking out every little bit of the place when it was being built.” She winked. “I got to do that with our house out in the green neighborhood, so I’m okay with giving my old place over to someone else.”

“I think Noah’s son will love it,” Jessie said.

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