The Yoga Club by Cooper Lawrence

Author:Cooper Lawrence [Lawrence, Cooper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781439187272
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Eleven

The Hubris of Power

Coco was on the train to Philly texting wildly with CJ for most of the trip.

• OMG, drop-by bad idea!

• Oh no! What?

• Closet case. 2 embarrassed to see me.

• Crp. Cookies didn’t work?

• Sorta. He was bitchy, mad, tho. But, big score!

• What?!

• “Borrowed” a file.;) We’ve got info!

CJ seemed upset, though he kept denying his feelings for the angry little man from the mayor’s office. Just as Coco was about to make a brilliant and astute point about the state of relationships today, a call buzzed in. She saw that it was Sam and debated picking it up. She knew they would argue, and she didn’t think it was smart to have it out on the train in front of Rory, who was bundled up in a big seafoam green scarf. He probably wouldn’t have heard a thing since he was wearing noise-canceling headphones and was thoroughly engrossed in The Wall Street Journal, but still, there are some things you don’t do around the person who holds your purse strings.

Their main issue of late was this: Sam had decided he wanted to get married. It was as simple as that. He didn’t want any kind of special ceremony or party, he just wanted the paper. It all tied in to his five-year Plan. And the fear and anxiety created by the arrival of the papers in the mail had brought him back to it.

“Why don’t we just go down to City Hall and get it done?” he’d almost pleaded. “It’ll just make me feel grounded and whole.”

Coco simply didn’t see any reason to. She didn’t want children and they had a domestic partnership, so all of their legal and financial concerns were taken care of. Coco was a hey-if-it-ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it kind of gal, but Sam was wearing her down. She cared deeply for him, but this issue felt petty, and she didn’t want to concede. It simply wasn’t her style.

Coco knew if she answered the phone this was where the conversation would end up. She screened Sam’s call and went on texting with CJ, who couldn’t seem to stop talking about Malcolm. Strange, considering how disparaging he was about him.

About a half hour later the train pulled into the other Penn Station, the one in Philadelphia, which actually had the right to the name. A limo was waiting to take Coco and Rory to the Pennsylvania Convention Center for the trade show, but as they got off the train Rory walked away from Coco, making a beeline for what she assumed was the men’s room; instead, it turned out he was headed right to a particular man, an incredibly handsome man. Rory turned back to Coco, waving furiously. She could see his mouth moving but was too far away to make out his words. She shrugged.

“Coco, this is Jordan Ainsworth. Remember, I told you about him,” Rory said enthusiastically when she finally joined them.

Rory had told her about him, but she’d tuned out the conversation. Jordan

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