Time of My Life: A Novel by Allison Winn Scotch

Author:Allison Winn Scotch
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Psychological, Life change events, Psychological fiction, Contemporary Women, Fiction, Literary, Self-realization in women, General
ISBN: 9780307408570
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2008-10-06T10:00:00+00:00

Jill—

I am so proud of your promotion and am sorry that I’ve been so distracted of late.

Dinner tonight at “our place”?

I love you,

Jack

My face expands into an unweighted smile, and I shake my head in wonder.

I’d left two messages on Jack’s phone after I returned home from my interlude with Henry at Starbucks. In the first, I told him about my promotion, and in the second, alarmed by the fact that I couldn’t dislodge Henry from my head, I told him how much I missed him, how much I loved him, and how I wish that he’d come home that night, rather than taking the early train in the morning, even though the sun had long since tucked itself beneath the horizon and my eyelids drooped with fatigue and I knew that there was little chance of him doing so.

I fell into a listless sleep an hour later and woke at midnight to no messages. But now, there was this. And on a Monday, too! I knew that Monday mornings were Jack’s busiest, clogged with editorial meetings and copy deadlines and delinquent excuses from his freelance writers, so when this mass of floral obscenity landed on my desk in the midst of all of this, well, it felt like something. Not everything, but something to be sure, and for me, so desperate to rid Henry from my system, to expel him like rotting waste, it certainly felt like enough.

“So I take it the boyfriend problems have been resolved,” Gene asks, nearly blinded by the glare from my beaming grin.

“You can take that correctly,” I say, bending over to smell the literal roses.

“Well, that’s good news,” he says. “Because I didn’t want to say it back then, but I can say it now. Ex-boyfriends are always trouble.”

“Not always,” I answer. “Just most of the time.”

“Always,” he says firmly. “Always since the beginning of time. Don’t go thinking otherwise.”

“I wasn’t,” I say, as Gene heads out the door with a perfunctory glance. Until I realize that I was thinking that exactly, but that indeed ex-boyfriends are always trouble, and a wave of gratefulness passes over me, as I recognize how closely I’d been tiptoeing to throwing it all away. And now, with Jack present and accounted for, how I wouldn’t have to think of Henry again. Trouble he was, and trouble he would be no longer.

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