The Kept Woman by Susan Donovan

Author:Susan Donovan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-10-11T09:10:07+00:00

Epilogue

Five years later

"You real y should try to sex up your image a bit, Jack."

Kara heard him groan, and she knew it was pushy of her to insist they meet during the holiday break, but they needed to hash out the specifics of Jack's reelection campaign. The primary would be a cinch—Jack had the party's backing and his two opponents were nobody goofs with no funding. It was the general election next November that had Kara nervous. Jack's likely opponent was so youthful, gorgeous, bril iant, and rich that Kara had trouble sleeping at night.

"Give it a rest, Kara, babes." Jack raked his long fingers through his dark hair, now tinged with gray that seemed especial y noticeable under the breakfast nook chandelier. "I'm a forty-four-year-old father of five, which includes a pair of preschool divas, and I'm afraid this is as sexy as it gets."

Monte shook her closely cropped head and her earrings jingled. "The chicks stil dig you, Senator."

After the laughter subsided, Kara listened to what Monte had to say, hardly recal ing that there was a time Kara questioned Jack's naming her his press secretary.

Monte had gone back to night school to finish her degree while working ful -time as Jack's constituent outreach director in his Indianapolis office. She'd learned the ropes and done such an amazing job that Jack had brought her to Washington two years ago, where her nerve and plain-speaking genius seemed to work magic. Kara had to admit that Jack had made a perfect choice.

"Now," Monte went on, "I'm not necessarily sayin'

that women are going to sweep you into office with the same tidal wave of support they gave you six years ago, but al our focus groups indicate you're stil hot with the ladies."

"I can attest to that." Sam placed a steaming teapot on the table and bent down to kiss Jack's head. He gave her a playful smack on the rear. Kara smiled, knowing that Jack and Sam's real romance—the entire life they'd built together—had turned out better than anything she could have manufactured.

Sam owned a successful Georgetown modern art gal ery and had been commissioned by private col ectors and corporations to paint several major pieces. She'd been a huge influence on Jack's political life, encouraging him to sponsor domestic violence legislation and a bil to increase federal day-care funding. The irony didn't escape Kara that because Jack was now known as a champion of working women and families, he'd lost some of that dangerous bad-boy edge that got him elected in the first place.

"And I don't care what marketing research says; I'm not dyeing my hair. That would be ridiculous, and, I might add, pathetic." Jack poured himself a fresh cup of tea.

"Voters elect people to office, not hairdos."

"But Ryan Watson is—"

"A kid! What can he possibly know about life at thirty-two?" Jack took a sip of his tea. "I was clueless at that age. I didn't learn what life was about until I got married, adopted three children, and had two of my own.

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