The Year Everything Changed by Georgia Bockoven

Author:Georgia Bockoven [Bockoven, Georgia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062069337
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-08-23T07:00:00+00:00

Later, fresh from a bath, dressed in oversized robes and sitting on the floor eating their gourmet meal off her everyday dishes, Marc stretched across the coffee table to wipe the corner of her mouth with his napkin. When he leaned back against the sofa he asked the question Ginger had been waiting for him to ask again. “So, are you going to tell me what happened this morning?”

“A half-million.” The lie slipped out with stunning ease. It was a first between them, at least on her part. She didn’t count the small lies, the ones she told him every day about understanding why they had to wait to be together. They were the thread that held the fabric of their relationship together. This was different.

“That’s it?”

She was stunned at how much she resented his disappointment. Half a million dollars was a lot of money. Instead of backtracking while she still could, she made the lie more complicated. “Divided four ways.”

“That can’t be right. The investigator I hired said he was worth at least fifty times that.”

She tried to wrap her mind around this new piece of information. Her deception no longer seemed so important. “You hired an investigator? Why would you do that?”

“I was afraid something like this would happen. Plainly it’s a good thing I did.”

“How dare you hire someone without telling me? You had no right. Jessie Reed is my father and my business.”

“You used to say Jerome Reynolds was your father.”

“That was a low blow.”

He tossed his napkin on the coffee table. “You know, I gave up a lot to be here with you tonight. If you think I’m going to stick around and let you attack me just because I didn’t tell you everything I was doing to look out for you, you’re crazy. That’s the kind of shit I get from Judy. I’ll be damned if I’m going to take it from you, too.”

She knew what he was doing, how he was manipulating her by comparing her to Judy, but after three years the pattern was as set as her reaction. If she didn’t find a way to pacify him, if he left with the argument unresolved between them, she wouldn’t hear from him for days.

She stared at Marc trying to decide what to do and was bemused when she realized she didn’t have the energy or desire to make the effort to keep him there. She wasn’t going to fall apart or curl up in loneliness if he left. She’d had too much practice getting through such evenings.

Besides, she had someone to talk to if she needed to talk, someone to see if she needed company. Someone who was just as screwed up when it came to men as Ginger was—the sister she actually liked, Rachel.

“Well?” Marc prodded.

“Well what?”

“Are you going to apologize?”

“Absolutely not.” Even that surprised her. “If anyone deserves an apology, it’s me.”

He got up and stood over her. “I should have gone to the opera with Judy.”

She glared at him. “Be my guest.

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