Broken Promise by Tara Thomas

Author:Tara Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

CHAPTER 11

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

As far as parties went, Howard Germain rated this one a solid six out of ten. Based on the time, he didn’t think this one had any chance of redemption. He was ready to call it a night. Kappa Sigma had one planned tomorrow night. Maybe it would be better. He headed to the door.

“Howard.”

He turned to his best friend and roommate, Franklin Benedict. It was highly unlikely Frank wanted to walk back to their apartment together since he’d broken up with his latest side piece of fluff. No, if he knew Frank, and he felt as if he did after living with him for two years, he’d be looking for a new bed to enjoy for an hour or two. Odds were in his favor he’d find it.

“Benedict.” Howard nodded in the direction of his friend. “What are you still doing vertical?”

Frank laughed as if it was the funniest joke he’d ever heard. “I found her, man.”

“Found who?”

“The future Mrs. Benedict, of course.”

Howard simply played along. He’d been introduced to future Mrs. Benedicts for as long as he could remember. It was almost a certainty there was nothing special about this one. But, to please his friend, he looked up when Franklin said she was over near the speakers.

He didn’t say anything for several seconds. He wasn’t sure he breathed.

The woman standing near the speakers took his breath away. It was more than her looks, though she was certainly beautiful. It was her entire being. The way she stood, the way she smiled; hell, even the way she tilted her head to the left a bit as she talked to the women around her.

He could see why she caught Frank’s eye. He preferred blondes and hers looked completely natural. Nothing like those out-of-the-bottle jobs so many of the women he went out with had.

“Come on,” Frank said. “Let’s go introduce ourselves. I see Lisa just walked up to her.”

Lisa being one of the women he’d dated for six hours and then left.

“You sure you want to go up to her while Lisa’s up there? Aren’t you afraid she’ll tell her something so she won’t go out with you?”

“Lisa and I parted on good terms.”

“I get the feeling your definition of ‘good terms’ doesn’t mesh so well with mine.”

Frank punched him in the arm, but Howard wasn’t joking.

The crowd wasn’t as heavy as it’d been just an hour ago. Apparently, he wasn’t the only one who thought the current party lacked something vital. But the small crowd only meant it took them less time to make their way to where the girls were.

“Ladies,” Frank said as he approached the small group.

As it turned out, Frank did walk home with Howard that night and he would sleep alone. But he had a dinner date for the next weekend with Helen (or the future Mrs. Benedict as he kept calling her) and that was all he talked about as they made their way home.

“What do you think?” he asked Howard at one point in the conversation.

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