The Right Kind of Wrong by Emily Wood

Author:Emily Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781937325831
Publisher: Beachwalk Press, Inc.
Published: 2014-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

The next week seemed to pass in a haze, and not even work was doing anything to distract Harriet from the dull ache that seemed to get worse every day that she didn’t speak to Jamie. She didn’t know whether it was truly over or whether he was too stubborn to cross the street between them to come and talk to her. The only thing she knew for certain was that she couldn’t face him rejecting her, and so she couldn’t bring herself to go speak to him.

Harriet wandered room to room in her big, empty house, wrapped in a bathrobe, not feeling up to doing anything. She had the whole weekend to be stuck there alone, and she felt too uninspired to do any work. She still didn’t get how things could have been going so well between her and Jamie one minute, only to crumble the next. It chilled her to the bone when she thought of the way she had reached for him and he had backed away. Everybody left her, and now she was alone again.

“Snap out of it!” Harriet said to herself as sternly as she could. Moping around the house wasn’t going to get her anywhere. If she didn’t want to be alone, it was up to her to do something about it. Harriet considered her options, and then took her mobile phone out of her pocket. If she had been a bit gutsier, she might have rung Jamie, and then they could have sorted their issues out. Instead she dialed another number.

“Hello, Chloe speaking.” Her assistant put on her best professional voice, although Harriet could hear the disappointment underneath. She probably thought Harriet was calling to ask her to do overtime or something.

“Hi, Chloe. I just wondered if you girls were still going out tonight?” Harriet suddenly felt foolish. Chloe kept asking her to come on a night out with them, but Harriet wondered now whether she was only asking to be polite.

“Yes, we are!” Chloe’s voice brightened, and Harriet was relieved. “Oh my God, are you going to come too? It’s about time! I’m so excited!” As her bubbly assistant began to arrange the details of their night out, the pain Harriet was feeling eased a little. She genuinely began to look forward to an evening with the girls. It would be a welcomed distraction from thinking about Jamie, and besides, maybe she’d meet somebody who was bit more suited to her than an ex-con.

* * * *

“You look hot!” Chloe made Harriet turn around to show off her dress. “Is that one of ours?” Harriet did little cartwheels inside when she saw the envy poorly disguised in her assistant’s eyes.

“Actually, it’s one I made myself. I was experimenting.”

A couple of the girls from the office raised their eyebrows, but the others looked impressed, and Harriet felt happier than she had in days. She was wearing the blue dress she’d been making that fateful day when she’d argued with Jamie, and

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