Pure Attraction by Rebecca Hunter

Author:Rebecca Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-05-12T19:20:15+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

JESSIE LET OUT a sigh of pure pleasure as she looked around her. The path to the restaurant wove through the Kalani peninsula, passing private cabins, pools, tennis courts and other amenities all tucked away behind tropical greenery. They passed a few wandering couples who greeted them with polite nods. A few more were being shuttled in quiet electric carts by Kalani staff members who tried to hide their double takes at Byron in his staff shirt. Byron just nodded to everyone who passed, in that same understated way he had. The more time she spent with him, the more truth her earlier observation seemed to hold: how easy it would be for people to underestimate his low-key attitude. People meaning her right now, too.

Byron’s hand settled gently on her back, sending tingles of awareness through her. “I did a little reading on you. Where did the idea for MomJobs come from? As far as I understand, you’re not a mother, and neither is your sister.”

Jessie had fielded that question hundreds of times, and she opened her mouth to give him her well-rehearsed response: getting women into the workforce after they had kids was a feminist issue. What was good for mothers was good for every woman. All of this was true. But if Byron had done a little reading on her, then he had certainly seen that answer before. He wasn’t asking a business question, so she gave him the other truth, the one she and Jillian still skirted around, even after they were no longer living under their parents’ roof.

“My mother went to college for her Mrs. degree, and she got it. By the time she figured out this wasn’t a good path, she was stuck in a small town with two young kids.” Jessie was trying to keep her voice light, but she was pretty sure her emotions leaked through anyway. She wasn’t even sure which ones those were anymore. “Something like this would make a difference in my mother’s life. It would give her options, if she was willing to try it.”

“I see.”

There was understanding in Byron’s voice, as if he heard the pieces of the story she had left out, too. That her mother had actually gotten angry at Jessie when she suggested her mother try the app.

He was quiet for a while. “Are your parents still together?”

“Yes, unfortunately for both of them. They definitely don’t bring out the best in each other.” She frowned. “But neither of them know how to get out of it at this point.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Me, too. But we don’t choose our families. We just do the best we can with what we’re given.”

Byron smiled. “Amen to that.”

They were nearing the part of the resort where the forest began, and the sound of birds and frogs and whatever else lived in there filled the night.

“Tell me about the company,” he said.

“My sister is in charge of the front end, and I’m the tech side. We’ve found it works better that way.

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