Enticing the Boss by Lily Bly

Author:Lily Bly [Bly, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: erotic romance
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press, Inc.
Published: 2019-01-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Jean

I checked my phone again as I left the restaurant after the dinner with Donelson. There was so much I wanted to tell David, but he still hadn’t replied back to my info about Donelson’s dinner suggestion. Maybe David had gone home and straight to sleep after the hospice facility. As I drove out of the parking lot, I wondered if I should stop by his apartment to check on how he was doing.

“No,” I said, adjusting my rearview mirror against the headlights following me. “I’m not going to be clingy. I already said too much this morning. We both need sleep. In our own beds.”

I cranked the Smash Mouth song on the alternative radio station and tried to relax. Donelson was on board. We’d get through Edgar’s funeral, and then the future was bright. Career, check. Potential relationship—finally—check. Really, things were looking up. I’d been patient for six years. I just needed to be patient for a little while longer and help David with his grief. We’d find the starting line soon.

The drive to my house in the suburbs seemed to take longer than normal. I guzzled coffee from the small to-go styrofoam cup I’d gotten from the restaurant. I was exhausted. I just needed to get home. No doubt David was just as exhausted—more so, I was sure.

As I pulled into my garage, my cell phone rang. I threw the SUV in park and searched madly for my phone. It wasn’t David. I sagged back against the driver’s seat, and my heart shrunk a little.

I swiped across the picture of my brother’s goofy smiling face to answer the call and put it on speaker. “Hi, George.”

“Hi, Auntie Jean!” a young voice in the background yelled.

“Hi, Mary!”

“What’s with the radio silence?” George asked. “How’d your pitch go?”

“Great. Donelson signed the seven-book contract and even treated me to dinner tonight. How’s the skiing in Colorado?”

“Amazing,” Mary squealed. “It’s so pretty here.”

I smiled at her enthusiasm, but melancholy tinged my voice. “That’s great, and you have the whole week to go.”

“It’s been a blast, sis. We wish you were here.”

“I know. There’s just a lot going on here. Edgar Shep died this morning.”

“That was expected though, right? I mean after that stroke he just wasn’t going to recover.”

“No, he wasn’t. It was probably a blessing.”

“Then why so glum, chum?”

I rolled my eyes. George was too fond of clichés. “Am I still on speaker?”

There was a slight rustle, and George’s voice rang clearer. “Not anymore.”

“Well, David and I sort of…” I bit my thumbnail trying to qualify what exactly we’d done—besides have the most amazing sex of my life—but I just couldn’t tell my brother that.

George knew me well enough though that I didn’t need to finish the sentence. “You didn’t. He’s engaged. I’ve never known my sister to be a hussy. Stepsister, yes—hell, yes. But not you, Jean.”

“No! No, he and Beth broke up. The engagement’s off.”

“Is it really? Or is she just toying with him? We both know that’s her way.

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