Married by Contract

Author:Noelle Adams [Adams, Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-19T21:00:00+00:00

Eight

A week and a half later, Jenn was sitting in an expensive but generic hotel room in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, wishing Nick was here with her.

He wasn’t, of course. She’d been out of town all week on a business trip, hitting three different cities in the upper Midwest while she was traveling. She made trips for work often enough, but she hadn’t been gone for so long since she and Nick had started sleeping together.

It felt strange—and really lonely—to be away from him for so long.

Her meetings had concluded by five-thirty, and she’d grabbed some dinner to bring up into the room, so she wouldn’t have to go back out. But now that she’d eaten and showered, she was bored and restless.

She wanted to talk to someone. She wanted to talk to Nick.

The obvious thing to do would be to call him up. He was probably home by now, fixing him something for dinner and watching TV. She didn’t, though. She still felt that jittering of nerves whenever she thought about Nick, and it worried her.

She didn’t want to be too dependent on him. She didn’t want to be heartbroken when he left her after their five years were over.

She’d done so well for so long in staying completely independent so no one could hurt her the way her father had. She wasn’t going to blow it now, just because she was getting a few soft feelings and having such good sex with Nick.

So she stared at her phone but didn’t call him up. When she realized what she was doing, she made herself put down her phone and started to flip the channels on the television, although nothing remotely held her interest.

She was still flipping twenty minutes later when her phone rang. She grabbed for it, her heart skipping a couple of times when she saw it was Nick.

“Hey,” she said, trying not to sound like she was smiling as she answered it.

“Hey. Am I interrupting anything?”

“No. Work is done for the day, so I’m back in the hotel room.”

“Oh good. How are things going?”

“Pretty good. I think I’ve got some new buyers.” She was pleased with the results of her trip, and she tried to remember that was a lot more important than spending time with her fake husband.

“I thought maybe I would have heard from you.” He sounded overly casual, which made her think he wasn’t.

“Oh.” She swallowed. She hadn’t been calling him for her own mental health, but maybe he would think she was just being rude. Things had felt different between them since that day in the hotel room—the memory of which still gave her shivers of excitement. They hadn’t had sex since, partly because she’d been out of town but not entirely so. “It’s been pretty busy.”

“Yeah. I figured.”

“How is everything with you? Anything new on that case?”

“No. Nothing.”

“Are you okay?” she asked, hearing a kind of glumness to his tone that wasn’t normally there.

“Yeah. I’m fine.”

“Good. I’m fine too.”

“Good.”

Jenn realized it was a silly conversation, but she wasn’t quite sure how to change it back to something natural.

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