Dawson's Fall (Welcome to Covendale #5) by Morgan Blaze

Author:Morgan Blaze [Blaze, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-30T07:00:00+00:00

Aubrey didn’t sleep at all that night.

She cried herself to exhaustion, but her thoughts wouldn’t stop churning. It had been hard enough trying to deal with every disaster in her life since she came back to Covendale. Now her attempt to fix just one thing had made everything a thousand times worse.

It was enough to make her consider quitting after all. Not just the job, but this town…right now, for good. She must’ve gotten up a dozen times, alternately determined to pack up and leave, or grow a spine and stick it out.

By morning she’d decided that she wasn’t going to work. At least, not right away.

She had a tentative plan. Aching and bleary-eyed, she sat at her kitchen table with a strong cup of coffee and tried to hash it out. First of all, she wouldn’t quit. Staying on the job was the only way she could get back at Mark for what he’d done to her.

But to do that, she had to confront her family.

She couldn’t spend the next two months dodging and evading while she worked with the enemy. The stress was already killing her, and it had only been a few days. Her father and brother would be pissed, but she knew how to diffuse the situation—Mrs. Joliet Vanderbright. She couldn’t believe she hadn’t thought of that before.

Mrs. V. had hired the Dawsons, and she was a huge client for the bank. So they wouldn’t risk upsetting her. They’d have to accept the fact that she was working with Dawson Construction at Mrs. V.’s insistence. She’d just go to the bank, where they couldn’t make a scene, and tell them.

Then she’d head back to the job site and shove her continuing employment in Mark’s face.

Covendale Savings and Loan was a sprawling, well-landscaped brick building in the heart of downtown, at the corner of Main and Spring. Aubrey arrived a little after ten, just in case Jason had decided to go in late. Her nerves hummed and fluttered as she parked the car and went inside, but she reminded herself what was at stake here. Pride and peace of mind.

And revenge.

Much like the bar, the bank hadn’t changed in the past eight years. Her attention was drawn to the big, windowed corner office that was Jason’s now, and she saw her brother behind the desk—and her father standing in front of it, talking and laughing.

Perfect. Now if she could just get through this without puking her guts out.

She walked over and opened the door. Both of them turned with identical looks of annoyance that morphed into smiles. “Aubrey!” her father said. “I thought you’d be working right now.”

Jason smirked. “You totally blew me off last night, didn’t you?”

“No, I’m going to work. I just…” She entered the office, closing the door behind her. “Can we talk for a minute?”

“Sure we can.” Roger looked concerned. “Is everything okay? You’re not having trouble with that foreman, are you?”

Am I ever. Aloud she said, “Not exactly. But let’s sit down

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