Page 24 of And I Love Her

Oh shit.

Grabbing her phone, she replayed a voicemail from the Cambridge Press editor, who spoke in a clipped and disapproving tone.

“We had a phone appointment at noon, Dr. Prescott. I’m unable to reschedule today, so it will have to be next week. Please contact me at your earliest convenience.”

With a groan, Callie tossed the phone aside and rested her head in her hands. Despair squeezed her chest.

Two encounters with Jake Ryan, and not only was she making inane remarks about his button fly, she was annoying her tenure committee with her tardiness and forgetting about critical appointments. Now she’d made a terrible impression with the woman who would decide whether or not to offer her a book contract.

She’d cancel the movie tonight. Except she didn’t have Jake’s contact information.

Okay, she’d meet him at the Vitaphone and tell him she didn’t have time for a movie. She hadn’t socialized much in high school either, which was just one of the reasons she’d been accepted to Harvard on a scholarship. She certainly couldn’t “hang out” now, not even with him.

What if she fell behind on her book proposal? What if Jake Ryan interfered with her quest for tenure? What if her mother needed something? What if one of her students saw her out on the town?

What if Jake was right and she actually hadfun?

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