What's Yours is Mine by Quinn Talia

Author:Quinn, Talia [Quinn, Talia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, romance novel, california, contemporary romance, coast
Publisher: Exeter Street Books
Published: 2014-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Will sat on the bed with his computer, working up 3D models for the house remodel job he was bidding on next week. It would be a sweet but small gig. The couple had just sent their last child off to college and wanted to reclaim the space. Update their lives, let in fresh air and sunlight. He planned to replace windows, put in skylights, and add a deck or two. He was considering suggesting an outdoor room, a serene spot to enjoy the subtle Southern California shifts between winter cool and summer breeze.

After he’d left Golden Organics, he’d numbly said yes to any short job that came along, no matter what it was. It wasn’t until he’d worked on a one-day gig helping a contractor friend out with a kitchen remodel that he’d realized, for the first time in months, he hadn’t thought about Golden or Darcy, betrayal or disappointment. For the first time in months, he was content.

This work made him happy. Creating spaces that opened up people’s lives.

As always, once he started working, he got caught up in his imagined spaces, enough that he could almost forget the mess Darcy was making in his own living room.

Until she marched into the bedroom, closely followed by two movers with a black lacquered dresser.

She looked around the room. “Here, I think.” Right next to his.

Will stood up. “That’s not—”

She shook her head at him. “I canceled the dining table, but I need this. I’m tired of digging through my suitcase for my underwear, and it’s not like you’re about to empty out a drawer for me like we’re dating.”

“What if I did? Would you send them away? What if I gave you a drawer?”

She seemed to actually consider this, glancing between his dresser and the black one.

The mover grunted. “I gotta put this down, or I’ll drop it on someone’s foot.”

Darcy pointed. “There.” She turned to Will. “I can’t cram an entire wardrobe into a sock drawer. Sorry. Nice offer and all.”

She was in an oddly cheery mood, which only made his desire to throttle her all that much stronger. But he had no right to deny her a dresser.

As the movers left the room, trailed closely by Darcy, Will’s phone rang. Darcy glanced over her shoulder as he picked it up.

He swung the door closed behind her.

“Is this Will Dougherty?”

“It is.”

“This is Shana Ogden from Calderon and Associates. We just looked over your proposal. You got it to us in the nick of time, I have to tell you. We’d finished interviewing, or so we thought, but we loved your presentation. Can you come in tomorrow?”

Will blinked. “I think you have the wrong Will Dougherty.”

“You’re not a builder and sometimes designer?”

“No, I am, but…”

“And the website, is that you? Will Dougherty Design?”

Curiouser and curiouser. “It is.”

“Lovely work, by the way. We particularly liked the trees growing up through the atrium of the blue-glass office building in San Louis Obispo.”

“Thank you.” A miracle of a job. He’d had

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