Good Times by Kate Jiffy

Author:Kate, Jiffy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-05-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Georgette

After a day of packing and arranging for my boxes to be shipped to New Orleans, I logged onto the airline’s website to see if there was an earlier flight than what I originally booked. Sadly, there wasn’t, so I took Trevor up on his offer and stayed at the apartment.

Once he left for the office, he didn’t return until later in the evening, and like he suggested, we ate takeout and it wasn’t horrible. He didn’t instigate an argument or question my motives or decision. We just ate, mostly in silence, and the words we did exchange were amicable.

Trevor reminisced about when we first moved into the apartment and how exciting it was to live in Manhattan. It was. I remember. There are actually a lot of good memories I’m taking with me.

Trips around the world.

Nights of takeout and dreaming about the future.

Mornings that turned into a comfortable routine.

A feeling of contentment.

But soon, that contentment turned into complacency and I wanted more.

So, I’m sitting on this airplane headed back to New Orleans with nothing but anticipation for the future. There are no regrets, no what-ifs, and absolutely nothing standing in my way of going after what I want, what my heart wants. What it’s always wanted.

Four hours later, I’m in another Uber, this time leaving the airport outside of New Orleans and wishing I could make the driver go faster.

As we make our way down I-10, I start to relax.

When he takes the exit for downtown New Orleans, my heartbeats even out.

Just as the colorful houses of the outskirts of the French Quarter come into view, I take my first easy breath. The past day and a half felt like forty. None of it was easy or fun, but it’s over and I’m back.

Craning my neck to see down the block, not only can I see my house, but I see something even better.

Finley is waiting on my front porch, elbows resting on his knees as he watches the road.

“Thank you,” I tell the driver as he pulls up to the curb. I don’t even give him a chance to get out and help me with my suitcase, I grab it and bail out of the backseat, shutting the door behind me and giving him a wave.

A wide smile greets me as Finley stands slowly, squinting his eyes against the bright New Orleans sun. “Aren’t you a sight for sore eyes.”

“I was planning on dumping this suitcase and coming to find you,” I tell him, unsure of what to say. His greeting has me smiling and my feet moving. Before I can make the few steps onto the porch, Finn leaps off and meets me on the sidewalk, scooping me into a hug.

“Damn, I missed you.”

Laughing, I squeeze him so hard he grunts. “I missed you too.”

“That was the longest two days of my life,” he says into my hair, still not letting me go.

“Me too,” I tell him. “I was just thinking it felt like a freaking month.

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