Time of Day by Nicole Pyland

Author:Nicole Pyland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: series, Romance
Publisher: Pyland Publishing LLC
Published: 2019-08-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Riley sat behind her desk, closed her laptop, and packed it away. She climbed into her car a few minutes later, drove to the restaurant she’d ordered food from in advance, climbed back into the car, and drove. When she arrived at Kinsley’s, she was surprised to find another car in the driveway. It wasn’t Morgan’s or anyone else’s she knew. She’d texted Kinsley telling her she’d bring her dinner. Kinsley had replied with a happy face emoji. She’d been working from home for the past two days and had been going stir-crazy, according to their text message exchanges. She made her way up the driveway. She wasn’t proud of it, but she glanced into the driver’s side window of the car, and her heart sank. She noticed an ID badge for a Dr. Courtney Ash sitting on the passenger’s seat.

Riley held onto the bag of food she’d bought for her and Kinsley to share as she knocked on the door. She’d planned to have dinner with Kinsley. But seeing Courtney’s car in the driveway, after what she and Kinsley had discussed the other night, had her in actual pain. She thought they were working on something. She hoped Kinsley was getting to a point where she could trust her. She’d been wrong.

“Oh, hey.” Courtney Ash stared back at her. “She’s in the kitchen. Riley, right?”

“Yes. I didn’t know you’d be here,” Riley commented as she briskly entered Kinsley’s foyer.

“That’s because I was supposed to be gone already. I was just rewrapping her ankle,” the woman replied.

“You came all this way to wrap Kinsley’s ankle?” Riley asked as they made their way toward the kitchen.

“No, she didn’t.” Kinsley sat in one of the chairs at the kitchen table. Her laptop was out, and there were papers strewn about, with pictures of buildings from what Riley could see. “She’s here for a client meeting.”

“Right,” Courtney said, but Riley caught her face drop when Kinsley said that. “She’s helping me find a new office. We would have met at my current space, but I didn’t want her to drive.”

“We were just finishing up,” Kinsley revealed. “She wanted to wrap my ankle again.”

“And now, I’ve done that.” Courtney moved to the chair next to Kinsley’s; they’d been pushed very close together.

Riley swallowed hard. Courtney grabbed her purse hanging off the back and slung it over her shoulder.

“I’ll leave you two to your meal.”

“Thanks for coming all the way here, Court,” Kinsley said. “I’d walk you out, but–”

“Don’t move. You’ve been doing so well staying off it; letting me get you your coffee, paper from the printer, and everything. You’re healing fast because of that.”

“I know. Riley’s been taking care of me.” Kinsley smiled in Riley’s direction. Riley gave her a smile back that didn’t reach her eyes. “I’ll talk to you later,” she said to Courtney.

“Call me?”

“I will,” Kinsley smiled as Courtney left the kitchen.

Moments later, the front door opened and closed behind her. Riley set the bags on the counter and turned to Kinsley.

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