Maggies Marriage (Cloverleaf #2) by Gloria Herrmann

Author:Gloria Herrmann [Herrmann, Gloria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B019PFPXQ6
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Michael

The bar was quiet. He could hear the clinking of heavy glasses in the background, but he was able to drown that out. Michael worked on his third drink, the amber colored liquid burned his throat as it slid down. He just hoped it would make him forget.

His life had been turned completely upside down, all of his work thrown away and dismissed. His brain couldn’t erase the misery of the day’s events. He had arrived at the firm, anxious, knowing that today was the day he would learn if he had made partner at one of the most elite firms in Seattle. He had been busting his back for them for several years now, he was at the prime age for the position he was drooling over. At thirty-five years old, he had goals and plans, all of which had fallen through.

More than a month ago his wife, Maggie, took their daughter, Melanie, and left for her old hometown, leaving him in their empty downtown condo. He hardly even slept there anymore, he would go there to shower and grab fresh clothes, but otherwise it was just a shell that held the contents of his life, their life. If learning that his wife was finally pregnant with their second child and leaving him wasn’t bad enough, his father had died as well. He had to give the old man some credit; his father had left everything in perfect order, and Michael, as his parents’ old child, inherited everything.

Since Michael was alone in the world, both parents dead, his wife and child, soon to be children, gone, he threw himself into work; it was all he had left. When that came crashing down, Michael found himself in an upscale bar that was home to many of the neighborhood attorneys. The expensive place could wet the palate of a lawyer who just won his first case, or lost it. The little bar was tucked in amongst the large skyscraping firms, with its overpriced drinks and pretentious customers, and it cradled Michael as he mourned everything that had gone wrong in his life.

Earlier that day, he was called into the firm’s enormous conference room, the partners seated around the sleek mahogany table, with their steel faces, cold and unforgiving, staring at him. There were a couple in the group that eyed him with unspoken apology and sympathy, and he knew right then there was no making partner that day. Sudden anger, which had blended with his grief, erupted. He didn’t bow down and accept their dismissal of his hard work and hours that he sacrificed, times he sacrificed with Maggie and Melanie. He hated that Maggie was right, but it didn’t matter. He went to his office, gathering all of the possessions he had from practically living there for the last eight years, and then he had left.

He tapped his drink and signaled the bartender he needed another. He needed to forget that everything was crumbling around him. The world he had put his blood, sweat, and even sometimes tears, into was shattered.

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