My Once and Future Love (2011 Edition) by Krae Carla

Author:Krae, Carla [Krae, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, contemporary romance, my once and future love, jacob and beth
Publisher: Carla Krae
Published: 2011-05-13T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

December 2008

The band had been in the studio all fall recording test tracks for the next album. Jacob had two weeks off and was visiting his mother for half of it. I thought I’d finally get some time off.

“Pack up, Bethie. I need you with me,” he said after entering my cottage.

I looked up from my planner. “For what?”

“London, of course. It’s a working vacation, babe.”

“I haven’t heard about any work. What could you possibly be up to?”

He sat on my desk. “One, Mum needs a present, and two, I can’t go to London without doing radio interviews and a signing or two.”

“Which your management or publicist can arrange. You don’t need me.”

“As your boss, I’m not asking. You didn’t request time off, so I need you to do your job—assist.”

The nerve of him, pulling rank on me. “Fine, sir, but you may want to check clause 10a of my contract.”

He folded his arms over his chest. “And what’s that?”

I pasted on a fake smile. “When you’re on vacation, I’m on vacation, and you can’t change that without at least a week of advance notice and paying me double-time. Two days doesn’t cut. Now, if you’d like help finding a gift, I’ll take you shopping and even wrap it for you, but that’s as far as I go.”

“You really turned into a hard-ass, Bethie.” He jumped off the desk and left my cottage, slamming the door on his way out. His temper definitely hadn’t improved with age. Spoiled brat.

Andrew was expecting me for Christmas Eve and Day. I took the even years to visit him in Virginia. My brother and Darcy married the summer before I started working for Jacob and lived in a nice little house in a nice little town. They were supposedly expecting snow.

The next day, Jacob handed me a credit card and ordered me to get something for his mother as he was “too busy to gallivant all over town to find one”. He wasn’t, of course—it was just a power play. I felt sorry for Vivian having to see him like he’d become.

The house had never been so quiet, the day my boss flew away. I helped Maria shut everything down for the holiday then retreated to my little house to put my feet up and not move for a week.

My Blackberry rang. Lynn said, “Why aren’t you with Jacob?”

“Hi, Lynn. Merry Christmas to you, too.”

“How could you send him off alone, Beth? That’s not your job.”

“He’s twenty-six and I’m on vacation. Why are you panicking?” The reason they had problems with so many singers is because they treated them like babies.

“Jake Lindsey doesn’t go anywhere alone. That’s the perk of his status, that he doesn’t have to remember things on his own. Get your butt on a plane right now and catch up to him.”

“Not in my contract, Lynn. I’m not your slave. Good bye.” I hung up. Five minutes of peace, then my cell rang again. “What?”

“Bethie, I can’t find my passport.”

“It’s in the front pocket of your carry-on.

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