The Second Chance Plan (Caught Up In Love: The Swoony New Reboot of the Contemporary Romance Series Book 3) by Lauren Blakely

Author:Lauren Blakely [Blakely, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little Dog Press
Published: 2020-02-13T18:30:00+00:00

16

Kat

Present Day

My phone mocked me, a hard brick reminder that I was waiting for a call. I curled deeper into the dented corner of the mustard-colored couch, laptop on my thighs as I worked. Jill was my mirror image, sitting cross-legged on the other end, tapping away on her computer too. Her hair was twisted up and held in place with a red chopstick, and a few dark-blonde strands framed her face. “Finished!”

“Did you finally master Candy Crush?”

“Why, yes, I did. I also finished my list of recommendations for my group of Upper East Side mommies on their training and diet for the next few weeks before the New York City Marathon.” Jill was making headway as an actress, but she still took on jobs on the side as a running coach. She operated a few running clinics and clubs, especially for men and women who wanted to tackle marathons for the first time, as well as 5Ks and 10Ks.

“And I deserve a kombucha, but we have none, and that makes me sad.”

“Gross. But to each her own.”

“Kombucha makes me strong.”

“Kombucha makes me gag, but here you go.”

I stretched my arm out to the coffee table, grabbed Jill’s wallet, and tossed it to her. She caught it in one hand, placed her laptop on the couch, and went on an expedition to the nearest Whole Foods.

I wandered into the kitchen and reached for an apple inside the three-tiered silver-looking wire basket that hung by the side of the kitchen sink. I only kept it because it reminded me of the one towering with fruit—apples, oranges, nectarines, and lemons that threatened to spill out—that my parents had in our home in Connecticut. I washed the apple and then headed into the living room, where I sat on the windowsill and took a bite.

This probably sounded crazy, but my parents really are that couple. As in those people you can’t believe still love each other madly after all these years. They’ve been together for thirty years, and my mom still makes breakfast for him every morning. She’ll set the table with the same green-and-white checkered plates and the same matching cloth napkins that we’ve had since I was in high school. Then Dad will come downstairs, give her a kiss on the cheek, and they’ll have breakfast together. He’ll do the dishes and clean up, and they’ll walk to the store holding hands. It’s lovely.

When my mom admitted earlier tonight on the phone that the online daily deal had bombed, my heart withered a bit for them. “I’m so sorry, Mom.”

“Well, you know, you’ll just have to keep me stocked in chocolate, my Katerina.”

“I will. I promise. Even though I know it won’t come to that.”

I took another bite of the apple, thinking of them. When my phone finally rang, I pounced on it.

“Hello?”

“Hey. It’s Bryan.”

My heart leaped. I was the girl in high school waiting for the quarterback to call. Fine, I’d never dated a football player, and I didn’t even care for most sports.

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