The Lover by Nia Forrester

Author:Nia Forrester
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Stiletto Press, LLC
Published: 2017-06-17T22:00:00+00:00

For the third time in as many minutes, Ryann glanced down at her phone. Okay so she had told Spencer not to expect her to call, but did that mean he shouldn’t call her? Even to check to see if she’d landed okay? Ivy had called her about an hour after her plane arrived at O’Hare the evening before.

But far greater than her annoyance with Spencer was her annoyance with herself. Why should he call? For the last few weeks, they had been all over each other, so this trip had come at precisely the right time to re-establish some boundaries.

And besides, Ryann had plenty here to keep her distracted.

She liked Chicago. It wasn’t as overwhelming as New York, nor as somnolent as Washington DC. It was busy and cosmopolitan without being exasperatingly overcrowded. She could wander the shops on Michigan Avenue without being bumped and jostled by pedestrians every three steps, and sometimes, she discovered cute little boutiques that had not been there her last trip, and would likely not be there when she returned for her next.

At least, these were the things she had been telling herself when she felt a completely inexplicable pang of loneliness when she woke up in her hotel suite that morning. It was on the twentieth floor of the Radisson Blu, and had a wonderful view of Millennium Park. The client had booked it for her, and was covering the cost, so Ryann felt guilt-free about the opulence, enjoying her room service breakfast that morning with the drapes flung wide, looking down at the world.

She would normally have called Ivy to gloat a little, but her thoughts instead drifted to Spencer and what he might be doing with his Saturday morning. But she already knew. He had a routine that Ryann had become as familiar with as her own.

He woke around five and went to the gym, where he worked out for an hour. Spencer was a closet clean-eater, so once home the breakfast he made himself would be something like yogurt and granola with honey pulverized in his industrial strength blender. (Eggs, sausage and toast was what he ate when he was at her house; and he did it without comment or judgment, which Ryann liked.) After breakfast, he showered and was out of the house by eight-thirty. He did his shopping at Whole Foods and then after dropping off his groceries, went to the barber. Following that, was an afternoon at his sister’s, and then his evening was free.

Ryann had been part of his Saturday routine for a few weeks now, going to run her own errands while he did his, and then invariably hanging out with Ivy while he visited his family. They got together once again in the evening, either at her place or his, and Spencer would look at her with narrowed eyes and faux-suspicion, asking, ‘What have you been up to all day?’ as though she had snuck off when he wasn’t paying attention, and almost certainly had been getting into mischief while gone.

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