The Pre-Nup by Kendrick Beth

Author:Kendrick, Beth [Kendrick, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

As soon as she flipped on the garage lights, Jen started cursing. Her car sagged to one side with a flat tire, which, upon inspection, proved to be the result of a giant nail puncturing the rubber tread.

Eric had always predicted that sooner or later, all the debris from the custom home construction sites would wind up in their tires. But she hadn’t spent a lot of time worrying about it; he coddled their cars and always stayed on top of the oil changes and tune-ups. Plus, he was an expert tire changer, so speedy and competent that she had never bothered to learn how to do it herself.

She hauled her suitcase out to the driveway and called the only person she knew she could count on for help.

“I wouldn’t be asking you this if I weren’t truly desperate,” she wheedled. “We’re talking the Rory Reid show here. My whole career is on the line and I don’t have time to wait for a cab.”

“I understand that,” Ellie replied, “but Hannah finally went down for her nap and there’ll be hell to pay if I wake her up.”

“Why can’t she just sleep in her car seat?” Jen asked.

“Spoken like a woman who has no children.”

“I’ll read her bedtime stories on the way!” Jen promised. “Sing with her, tell her stories, whatever you need.”

“It’s the middle of rush hour. The airport’s forty minutes away with no traffic.”

“Car pool lane,” Jen said. “Please! If you do this for me, I will spend the rest of my life making it up to you. Money, slave labor, hit man duties, you name it.”

“I might take you up on that last one. Guess what I got in the mail today? A certified letter from the brokerage firm that used to handle my retirement account.”

“‘Used to’? That sounds ominous.”

“Yeah, they were forwarding a notice from the IRS demanding a bunch of penalty taxes for liquidating my account before reaching retirement age.”

Jen sucked in her breath. “He didn’t.”

“Of course he did. So now, on top of all the legal fees I can’t pay, I have a bunch of tax bills I can’t pay, and no IRA.”

“We’ll plot revenge on the road.”

Ellie sighed. “Oh, all right. But you better offer me early buy-in when the Noda corporation goes public. I’m gonna need some lucrative investments to support me in my old age.”

“I love you,” Jen gushed. “Oh, and uh, one more thing: We have to make a quick stop on the way.”

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