Tangled~Contemporary Romance Trilogy by Dee Bridgnorth

Author:Dee Bridgnorth [Bridgnorth, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Adult Themes, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Small Town & Rural Area, Trilogy, Alvarez Family, Collection & Anthology
Publisher: Dee Bridgnorth
Published: 2019-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Kevin

Pacing. Pacing. Pacing. I’d gotten no sleep. I could not even relax long enough to sit down. I felt wired. I couldn’t tell you how much coffee I’d had. The office was still empty. I didn’t even know what time it was. I’d come back after having dinner with my mother the previous night. The old mouse-eaten cardboard box was still sitting in the middle of my desk. My notes from the call with Todd and Dan Hopper were still beside the phone. It was as if there were just too many things swirling around in my head. It was pretty much like circling the drain. Soon enough something would pull the plug and everything would just go down the trap and that would be it. My life would be over. My career would be in the sewer. That would be that and I could finally stop worrying.

I moved toward the window. The gray clouds were still thick and heavy overhead. The rain had briefly stopped. Soon enough it would start up again. People were pulling into the parking lot. Their lights cut through the bleak early morning gray creating shadows that seemed to swirl around the trees and their naked branches. The blacktop parking lot itself was covered in dead leaves. I wondered what time it really was. Or what day. I wasn’t even conscious of that fact. Thanksgiving was coming up soon. I don’t know why, but I had set that as a personal goal of when I wanted to be done with this project and out of here. At the moment I could not see that happening.

“Knock, knock.”

Eleanor’s voice was so welcome that I nearly lost control of my face and showed her exactly how welcome. At the last second I was able to control the size of my smile. I hoped it at least looked somewhat normal and not maniacal.

Eleanor walked just far enough through the doorway to be officially inside my office. “I would have spoken with your secretary—oh, excuse me—your administrative assistant before coming into your office, but I heard a rumor somewhere that you fired her last night.”

She looked good. Different. What was it that made her look different? I couldn’t quite tell. She was still rail thin. But her hair was down again. It fell in soft waves around her elegant face. Eleanor had always had extremely delicate bone structure. Her face was almost elfin. Narrow cheeks, pointed chin, and a cute nose with beautiful high cheekbones, but for once she had color in her cheeks. There was a flush to her previously pallid complexion. Her brown eyes were bright with thoughts and ideas that I could not begin to guess at.

“What?” Eleanor lifted her narrow arched eyebrows. “Was that rumor inaccurate? Because I’m pretty sure that Ruth Powers would not be currently cleaning out the administrative staff if you hadn’t fired her.”

Eleanor’s words suddenly hit an actual shred of leftover intellect in my brain. “I’m sorry. Did you say cleaning out the administrative staff?”

“Yup.

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