Page 99 of Second Chances
“What happened?”
“Nothing happened. It’s just over,” Beth said as she walked past her sister into her bedroom, opening her closet to pull out a bag.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m leaving. I can’t stay; I need to get away from here… and from him,” she explained.
“Where are you going? What am I going to tell mom? dad? everyone?”
“That I took a new job that requires me to travel. It won’t be forever, Jane, but just for now. I’m on the verge of breaking to a point where there is no coming back,” Beth pleaded with her sister.
“Ok… ok. What can I do? Can I do anything to help?”
“No, you’ve done so much already. Thank you,” she said, trying to give her sister a smile.
Beth zipped up her sparsely packed bag and walked over to hug her sister.
“I love you. I’ll get in touch when I get wherever it is I’m going.”
“Ok, but Beth, I just want you to know how worried I am about you right now; please take care of yourself. Promise me,” Jane said, blocking the doorway, refusing to let Beth leave the room without giving her word.
“I promise,” Beth answered hollowly, praying that she would be able to keep it.
As she walked out of her room and passed the couch in the living room, she slipped her phone between two of the couch cushions before grabbing her purse and laptop bag and walking out of the door.
Less than an hour later, she sat down on the bench in the trail station, waiting for her train to arrive. She pulled out her laptop and opened her email.
Time to tie up the rest of the loose ends.
Her first email was to Phil, apologizing for everything that had happened and for what she was about to do. She told him that things weren’t right and she couldn’t continue to work for him until she had her life more under control; she told him her two assistants were more than capable of handling her existing clients and that when and if she returned, she did not expect her job to be waiting for her.
Second, she emailed her assistants thanking them for the pleasure that it had been to work with them, letting them know that they were more than capable of running the show on their own.
With her train arriving in two minutes, she opened up one last new email.
Hey Pat,
Sorry for the delay in response. It actually looks like I’m going to be in Boston for the foreseeable future. Any chance that the Dempsey Center needs an in-house PR person?
Beth and Darcy’s romance concludes in THIRD TIME IS THE CHARM.
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Chapter Thirty
You are cordially invited to the marriage of
Jane Marie Bennet
and
Charles David Bingley
to take place the Twentieth of May
Ceremony and Reception to take place at
Blue Hill at Stone Barns
