The Right Groom by Jen Talty

Author:Jen Talty [Talty, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jupiter Press
Published: 2020-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

4

Echo sat on Spencer’s stoop with two mugs of coffee and a box of his favorite doughnuts. The sun had just started to rise behind the mountains and brighten the morning sky. The last forty-eight hours had been difficult to say the least with her father’s fall and subsequent visit to the ER, but it bought Echo a few more days to come up with a story about why she was calling off the wedding.

Spencer’s pickup came into view.

Butterflies formed in her stomach. Seeing him again stirred too many emotions she’d thought had died; only, all she’d done was push them into a corner and pretend they didn’t exist.

For the last few years, she told herself that she was living the dream, and she really did love being a travel nurse, but she’d been lying to herself about Spencer.

And about Lake George and what it meant.

And what this wedding meant.

But no matter how much she tried to make Andy fit a mold she desperately wanted in order to protect her heart from breaking completely, it just wouldn’t work.

She really had no one to blame but herself for her current predicament.

“Good morning,” Spencer said as he slipped from the cab of his truck. “I thought we agreed I’d pick you up at ten.”

“We did.” She handed him a mug and opened the box.

“Uh-oh.” He reached in and snagged a chocolate-covered fried cake with sprinkles. “A half dozen, eh? I guess I should sit down for this conversation.”

Echo pulled out a custard-filled one, sticking her finger inside and licking the tasty cream. “I think I have to accept the fact that Andy isn’t going to change his mind.”

“You don’t say.” He sat on the stoop next to her and stretched out his legs. “What brought you to that conclusion?”

“Because he’s not responding to me at all.” She rolled her neck, working out the kinks. She hadn’t slept well since she returned to her hometown, and she wished she could say it was over her breakup.

Or at least the current one.

“And when I called the office, his secretary told me he was out and she wasn’t sure when he would be returning.”

“I’m really sorry about what you’re going through.”

“It sucks and my parents have been so worried about me.”

“It’s their job to worry,” he said.

“They have always thought I made a mistake by becoming a traveling nurse.”

“And what do you say about that?”

She stared into his dark-blue eyes for a long moment, searching for an answer that would make sense. The honest truth hurt her heart in ways she hadn’t expected. “No. It wasn’t a mistake. I’ve loved every second of it, but it’s time to settle into one place.”

“And Atlanta is that place for you.”

“God, no. I hate it there,” she said with a sarcastic laugh. “But Andy’s life is there, so I decided to make it my home.”

“Ouch.” Spencer tapped his chest. “You were in love with me, and you chose to leave.”

“We were twenty years old when we broke up.

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