Park Avenue Scandals--2 Book Box Set, Volume 1 by Maureen Child

Author:Maureen Child [Child, Maureen; Wright, Laura;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460805763
Publisher: Mills & Boon Special Release
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

“You’ve got to get out of the apartment,” Amanda said.

“I know, don’t worry.” Julia snuggled deeper into the armchair in Amanda’s living room. She hadn’t wanted to crash back at her old apartment with her best friend, but she’d had nowhere else to go when she left Max’s place. She certainly couldn’t go to her parents’. And she hadn’t wanted to be alone in an impersonal hotel room.

Amanda had been great, welcoming her back, staying up late every night to listen to Julia, torn between misery and fury, ramble on about Max. But she was right. Julia had to move out. She couldn’t stay here. She’d have to find her own place.

“I’ll see a Realtor tomorrow,” she said. “Promise. I’ll move out as soon as I can.”

“You dope,” Amanda said, dropping down onto the arm of the chair. “I didn’t mean you had to move out. I meant you had to get out. Walk outside. Get some air.”

“Oh.” Feeling like an idiot, Julia smiled up at her friend. “You’ve been so nice, Amanda. Letting me stay. Letting me rant.”

“What’s a best friend for?” The tall, pretty blonde smiled. “But, Jules, honey, you’ve been locked away inside the apartment for four days. That’s not healthy. Your skin’s already pale. Much more sunlight deprivation, you’re going to fade away completely.”

“I just don’t feel like seeing anybody,” Julia said quietly, looking around the familiar and yet different apartment. Amanda had put her own stamp on the place in just a week or so. There were feminine touches everywhere. “I feel like I want to crawl into a hole and pull the hole in after me.”

“Shame on you.”

“What?” She looked up into Amanda’s steady gray eyes.

“You’re hiding, honey. And you didn’t do anything wrong.” She paused to scowl a little. “Well, except for falling in love with a man who clearly doesn’t deserve you.”

“I’m not hiding, I’m … regrouping.” Just until she got over Max. Shouldn’t take her more than ten or twenty years.

Reaching out, Amanda patted her hand. “You know you’re welcome to stay here however long you want.”

“Thanks.”

“But …”

“What?”

Amanda gave her a sad smile. “The truth is, you’ll never be happy without Max. You’re a one-man woman, sweetie, and he’s yours.”

When Amanda got up and walked to the kitchen, Julia sighed and fought the sting of tears in her eyes. Amanda was wrong. She had to be. Because Max didn’t want her and Julia really didn’t want to spend the rest of her life miserable.

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