No Regrets (The Ferrari Family Book 2) by Hazel Parker

Author:Hazel Parker [Parker, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-22T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14: Chelsea

Brett eventually got me my chicken parm and pasta, but really, for how all over the place my body was that day, I could have gone the whole time without eating and I wasn’t sure it would have made a real difference.

I kept my head down for the rest of the day and just did my job to the best of my ability. I was still seething with anger at what I had gotten myself into. I couldn’t fucking believe that I’d turned into a gold digger, even if both sides of the equation fully understood that I was digging for gold with the guy—it just wasn’t his gold that we were searching for.

If anyone else in the family wanted to try and speak to me, no one did. Layla walked by me a couple more times, but she didn’t say a word for the rest of the afternoon. Alf walked by and nodded to me, and I nodded back; he seemed like a nice enough fellow. I wondered what he would say if he knew the whole reason I was here was so I could get millions of his dollars when he died. Not exactly ice-breaker material.

I got Brett all caught up on emails and had everything done by three, but since the limo wouldn’t come until after five, I was reduced to just sitting at my desk, utterly bored out of my mind, having to hope that things passed more quickly than they seemed to be at that moment. I didn’t dare check my phone during this first day, but if every day was going to be like this, then I wouldn’t be afraid to bring out the cell. Worst case, I’d just blame it on Brett.

I started jotting down things on the scrap paper in front of me. It started out as stupid shit, like “top ten TV shows,” just lists I created for myself for entertainment value. But by the time four o’clock rolled around, the list had taken on a little bit more meaning; now I was writing about top ten ways I would keep myself sane for the rest of my “marriage.”

I needed to go back to the contract and see if anything was said about remaining employed at Ferrari Wines once we got married. The workplace didn’t seem so bad, but the job...this was a job designed for a high-school dropout, not an accounting major. Yes, the pay was nice. Yes, the benefits were nice. Yes, the people were nice.

No, it would not make up for the lack of intellectual stimulation.

I needed to find an exercise practice to go to, something that would keep me away from home in the evening. Yoga, martial arts, a run club...anything that would mean when work ended at five, I didn’t go home until after seven or even eight o’clock at night.

I needed to find an activity to do on the weekends that was beyond “drinking with Amanda.” That reminded me, I needed new friends who only knew me as the married woman, not as the one who fell in love with her boss.

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