The Friendship Pact by Jill Shalvis

Author:Jill Shalvis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

On weekdays, Tae tended to get up early. Today she got up extra early because she and Jenny had a bunch of work to do. There was the upcoming Lake Days for Adrenaline HQ, plus four other events for different clients as well. Typically, they used video to chat, but today Jenny signed on with audio only.

“You know I don’t care what you’re wearing,” Tae said. “This isn’t a classroom.”

“It’s embarrassing.”

“Well, now I’ve got to see.”

Jenny paused. “I’ll go on video if you open yesterday’s snail mail.”

“How do you know I haven’t?”

Jenny laughed. “Because you would’ve called me about the package I sent you.”

Tae ran outside, gathered the mail that she’d indeed forgotten to get. She had a stack of bills and a box. She made her way back to her office. “I’m back.”

Suddenly Jenny appeared in the Zoom chat. Wearing a unicorn onesie, hood up, a rainbow horn attached.

Tae burst out laughing.

“Hey, don’t mock it until you try it.”

“Not happening.”

“You don’t know what you’re missing.” Jenny turned in a circle to give Tae the full effect. The onesie material was black and dotted with a zillion little colorful rainbows and had a fluffy tail.

“I’m not even sorry,” Jenny said. “It’s baggy enough to hide my trouble areas and the material is light and airy.”

“I’ll take your word for it.”

Jenny smiled. “That’s the beauty of this. You don’t have to. Open the box.”

Tae opened the box and looked at a matching unicorn onesie.

“I’ll wait,” Jenny said.

Tae shook her head but stood up and stripped off her sundress and stepped into the onesie. When she zipped it up, she looked at a laughing Jenny. “Can we get to work now?”

“Soon as you say you love it.”

Tae sat back down, the material kind of floating softly around her, not restricting or bunching. “Okay, maybe I love it.”

“You’re welcome.”

Tae laughed. “Thank you.”

They then spent the next two hours working, just two regular unicorns, getting through their to-do list. They’d just disconnected when Tae’s phone buzzed an incoming call from an unknown number. Normally, she wouldn’t answer, but something compelled her to anyway, and she was glad she did because it turned out to be Mr. Schwartz.

“I promised to let you know if I talked to my son,” he said. “Scott just called. He said he and AJ haven’t spoken in years, except that one time two years ago when they ran into each other at a coffee shop in south shore. AJ had apparently just retired from the military, and they spoke only for a few moments. Scott asked about his daughter because it’d been well known back in school that he’d gotten his girlfriend pregnant. AJ said his daughter, named Tae, was a grown-up now, and how time flew by. That was it. Scott said he had no idea how to get a hold of him now, or even if he stayed in the Tahoe area.”

“But . . .” Tae’s mind was whirling. “AJ grew up around Tahoe?”

“Sounds that way. I’m sorry I don’t have more to share,” he said, then paused.

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