How to Kiss Your Best Friend: A Sweet Romantic Comedy (How to Kiss a Hawthorne Brother Book 1) by Jenny Proctor

Author:Jenny Proctor [Proctor, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Four Petal Press
Published: 2022-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Kate

Ohmylanta seeing Brody lift a kayak over his head was something.

Let’s just state the obvious right up front. Seeing a man combine talent with hard-earned skill then top it all off with a blatant display of raw masculinity? Good grief. I was tempted to flip out of my kayak a dozen more times just to watch him do it again.

I would have had fun kayaking today with anyone as my guide. Once I got over the fear of flipping upside down, the thrill of moving through the rapids so quickly was intoxicating. It made me feel powerful. Capable.

At the same time, I was constantly aware of the water’s dominance, how much it would control me if I stopped paying attention even for a second. The excitement of that contrast? I could get used to that.

But there’s no denying it was more fun because Brody was the one teaching me how to do it. I loved watching him love what he was doing.

He was perfect.

Patient. Attentive. Steady. Strong. He was everywhere I needed him to be at the precise moment I needed him to be there. It’s his job, I know. But it felt like more than that.

Then we got back to my car and my phone . . . and I got an email.

An unbelievable email.

A wholly unexpected email.

Here’s the thing. I am not the world’s greatest travel writer. I am scrappy and resilient and very good at getting myself into places where unusual stories are found. That’s the only thing that makes me great at my job. I don’t have an English degree. I never attended college at all. The only thing that qualifies me to keep doing my job is the fact that I’ve been doing it for so long. I have earned my place at the freelance table.

But I’m not qualified for real jobs.

Real jobs are given to people with letters after their name. MFAs and PhDs. Even a BA is better than what I’ve got. Because what I’ve got is nothing. And, newsflash, when you’re dealing with a pool of applicants, nothing is the very easiest qualification to beat.

Imagine my surprise when the above-mentioned email tells me Expedition, travel magazine based out of London, wants to bring me on as an associate editor. They trust my eye, they say, and think I’ll have valuable input regarding the reach and scope of the entire magazine. The email ends with an invitation to visit London the first week in July, complete with a tentative itinerary they’ll formalize as soon as I agree.

It’s been hours since the email arrived, and despite my best efforts to keep myself busy, I haven’t been able to focus on anything else. Well, aside from Brody bench pressing a water-logged kayak like it was built out of feathers and air.

I’m in the shower now, expecting Brody any minute to help haul off a load of my grandmother’s belongings. My thoughts are so disjointed, bouncing like a ping pong ball between Brody and London and fancy job offers, I can’t even remember if I washed my hair before applying conditioner.

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