Summer in the City: The perfect feel-good summer romance by Emma Jackson

Summer in the City: The perfect feel-good summer romance by Emma Jackson

Author:Emma Jackson [Jackson, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409199434
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2020-06-07T18:30:00+00:00


Chapter Eleven

Once Noelle’s sister and brother-in-law returned, I called us an Uber. Noelle fell asleep in the back, slumping into my shoulder, her arms folded protectively around her big handbag, the notebook she’d been scribbling into tucked safely inside. Her hair smelt of sweet smoke and sunshine and it was a wrench having to nudge her awake and lose the warmth of her pressed up against me.

She was still half asleep when I saw her to her door and she hesitated a moment as she was saying goodnight, before reaching up on impulse to give me a kiss on the cheek that stayed on my skin like a burn long after she’d gone inside.

It had to be because she was tired and had been with her family. All the affection she had for them spilling over onto me. I walked home feeling more restless than made any sense following a platonic kiss.

For the first time in a long time I didn’t look forward to going back to work on Monday. Patrick was panicking and absentminded when it came to updating me on matters he’d dealt with and then expecting me to know what he was talking about. He was obviously stressed, and I didn’t want to add to that but with only two weeks to go before his paternity leave, I had to ensure he wasn’t going to drop me in it. He’d still not arranged a number of key client meetings and I hoped I wasn’t going to have to take up Georgina’s offer to step in. I was avoiding her as much as I possibly could. Every time she cornered me in the office, I could feel dozens of pairs of eyes trained on us, ready to pick up any little detail they could gossip about.

I decided to ask Patrick to meet me in the mornings to go for a run. He was so enthusiastic I felt guilty that I’d ever doubted his sincerity when I first started working in New York. It turned out his wife’s blood pressure was on the rise and they were thinking about doing a caesarean to deliver the babies early. His wife was worried, he was worried, and my first thought was whether Noelle would be able to help, given her experience both as a midwife and with having twins in the family.

I picked up the phone a number of times, ready to call her, but something held me back. She had work to do and even though she said she wanted to be friends, and I wanted to try, was I really capable of suppressing my attraction to her? I wasn’t sure I could deal with her disappointment in me if I slipped up. When she received word from her dad about Trevor, she’d let me know. That’s what I needed to focus on, and all I had to do was wait.

But as the week drew on and I didn’t hear anything, I began to wonder what was the worse torture?



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