Friends in Common_Suncoast Society by Tymber Dalton

Author:Tymber Dalton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2018-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

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Cali’s heart was breaking for Kel. “Let’s go talk in the office.” She led the way while Max returned to supervise the ongoing puppy play. Kel had let himself in with his key and hadn’t needed to use the doorbell. That’s why it’d caught her a little by surprise when he’d walked up to her, where she’d been watching the ongoing puppy pile, and said hi.

She wasn’t sure what to say to him. “We miss you guys.”

“We miss everyone, too.” He scratched at the back of his neck. “Look, I wanted to talk to you three anyway. I don’t know how long it’s going to be until I can volunteer again. Or if I’ll be able to. Between working and Mal, I…” He sighed. “I wanted to know if you’d let me sign over my share of the club to you guys.”

“What?” She noticed he didn’t mention Mal volunteering, which broke her heart more than a little, but she didn’t want to push.

“I mean, it doesn’t pay money. Everything Derrick and I make, we put right back into it. And Lynn cut the club a check when she won the lotto and refused to let us refuse it, so we’re sitting on a considerable reserve. But it’s paying its own way, at least. No money out of your pocket.”

She stared at him. “Are you serious?”

“I am. It’s not fair of me to keep imposing on you guys like this without—”

“It’s not an imposition. Seriously, it’s not.”

“But you guys have been putting so much into this.”

A chill she couldn’t identify or put a name to rippled through her. The only thing she knew was that letting Kel hand over his share of the club to them would be worse than wrong. Another thing Mal would try to beat herself up over, another perceived failure, in her mind.

“A lot of people put a lot of time and effort into the club. And we love you and Mal, which is why we’re happy to do it. We have one business, and the guys have day jobs. We can devote a couple of days a month here. And I don’t mind being the volunteer coordinator. We don’t have the time or energy to take on a larger burden as owners.”

He sank into an office chair behind the counter and looked…lost. “I honestly can’t give you a return time right now.”

“That’s okay. Seriously. How are you doing?”

“I’m…doing. I don’t have any other choice except to keep moving forward. I have to.”

“Look, Chelbie hasn’t told us a lot. And she’s been gone a lot, too, so we haven’t seen much of her lately.”

“Yeah, she’s been out in LA a lot with Rich.” He leaned forward, elbows propped on his knees, and buried his face in his hands. He looked…weary. Aged.

Worn out.

“Mal’s back in inpatient up in Tampa,” he softly said. “Minimum of a month.”

The chill turned into a freeze. “I thought she was home?”

“She was. I made her get on the scale the other day and she’d lost ten of the pounds she’d regained.

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