The Boyfriend Tune-Up by Michele Gorman

Author:Michele Gorman [Gorman, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Notting Hill Press
Published: 2019-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

When she’d first moved with him to the US she hadn’t minded not working. With the wedding to plan she hadn’t had time anyway. It was only after the confetti had settled that she’d got restless. With him working stupidly long hours she’d had a lot of time to fill on her own and there were only so many ways she could rearrange the medicine cabinet. One morning as she’d stared out the sliding door off the kitchen until her tea was cold, she realized she could sit there staring all day.

When Richard got home she pounced on him. ‘I’m going insane. I’ve got to work.’

‘Kate, sweetheart, it’s not up to me. It’s US Immigration that say you can’t. Have you been in touch with those clubs my secretary emailed about?’

‘I don’t want to just sit around drinking tea with a bunch of other expats. My brain is turning to mush. Do you know what I did yesterday?’

Her glare warned him to wipe the smirk off his face. ‘I arranged all the tins in the cupboards. Only I got stuck. Do you organize them by size or color or type of food? I went round and round and round. Richard, I fell apart sitting on the kitchen floor because I couldn’t organize the tins.’

She leaned into his chest when he put his arms around her. ‘I’m sorry,’ he said. ‘I know I’ve been working crazy hours and you’re here on your own. Believe me, I feel guilty about that but you know you can’t work. We can’t take the chance you’ll get caught, even if you could find something without a work permit. Is there anything I can do?’

‘Yes, there is.’ She pulled away from him. ‘Help me find somewhere to volunteer.’

But that wasn’t as easy as it sounded. She figured she’d need qualifications and experience to find proper work, but to volunteer? Her meagre offering of bar jobs and an eighteen-month marketing stint after graduation didn’t get her past the first interview.

She had to give up on the sexy charities – the Greenpeaces and United Ways – and start looking for the ones nobody else wanted to work for.

Finally she found a food bank on the bad side of town that was desperate enough to let her work for free. It wasn’t where she’d imagined ending up but at least it saved her from any more breakdowns on the kitchen floor.

She felt like the new girl on her first day of school when she got to the huge warehouse. What if they didn’t like her or she screwed up or they said it had all been a mix-up with HR and there was no job for her?

She walked all the way around the building, but couldn’t find an obvious office entrance. Nil points for that, she thought.

She crept through one of the giant loading bay doors instead.

‘Excuse me, can I help you?’ A stocky young man was piling up boxes. His white button-down shirt hung out of faded jeans and she could see curls of jet black hair under his vivid yellow hard hat.

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