Paper Hearts by J.V. Speyer

Author:J.V. Speyer [Speyer, J.V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Published: 2019-01-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Jordan couldn’t pretend to like either the husband or the wife in the divorce case he was dealing with today. Both of them were so nasty they probably deserved each other. The one good thing he could say about either of them was that they hadn’t had children, so their decision to go through a divorce at Christmas wasn’t ruining anyone’s holiday but their own.

Well, and his. But that was beside the point. He wasn’t thinking too hard about Christmas anyway, not since he walked away from Sam.

At least Alex Newman, the husband, paid his bills on time. So maybe Alex was the slightly better partner, because he had two good things going for him.

He stood up from his desk and stretched his back. He couldn’t imagine having to live with Alex, or with Elizabeth. He didn’t have to. He just had to take their money. Maybe Sam had things right. Maybe marriage was a stupid idea. It certainly hadn’t brought joy into the lives of most of his clients. Whatever the right or wrong of it was, Jordan wasn’t going to sit around and look at depositions any longer. So much cheating. From both of them, too. Why couldn’t they have just opened up their relationship and been done with it?

Not his problem. He pushed it off to the side and grabbed his coat. It was the holidays, he was going home.

The walk from his office to his building wasn’t a long one. Sometimes he felt bad about that. Maybe he should sell the condo and head out to the burbs, give himself a commute. Some people loved that. They appreciated the forced separation between work time and personal time. Jordan had dated a guy once, Andy, who’d suggested exactly that. All you do is work. We’ve cancelled five dates this month because you got work calls. You need more distance.

Sam was the only person Jordan had ever been with who actually got it, and look how well that turned out.

Jordan shook his head. He’d die in the suburbs. He needed the city, the lights and the movement and the excitement. He needed the variety, too. In the suburbs, everyone was the same. He knew—he’d grown up in the suburbs. He needed to be around people who weren’t just like him, even if finding a long-term partner was pretty much a lost cause.

He headed into his building and made his way up to his apartment. Maybe it wasn’t the palatial suite occupied by Sam, but Jordan was proud of it. It was nothing to sneeze at. He was comfortable here. It was a great place to be a bachelor.

His phone rang, happily interrupting the thought. He’d hate to sit around and focus on the whole bachelor thing. He didn’t want to get obsessive.

“Jordan, this is your mother.”

Jordan grinned. His mother, Delia, always identified herself that way. She knew her number came up on his phone any time she called, but she insisted on identifying herself whenever she called. It was a habit.

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