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Abi immediately pulled Kailynn into a hug.
“How are you? I’m sorry I couldn’t see you when you got the key.”
Kailynn wrapped her arms around Abi.
“It’s okay. I’m doing well, I guess.” Suddenly, the weight of everything she was undertaking settled on her shoulders. “I made the right decision, right?”
Abi walked over to the couch and dropped on it, propping her feet on the coffee table. Kailynn followed suit.
“You made the right decision,” Abi said without hesitation. “It needed to be done. He made you miserable and treated you terribly. Are you regretting leaving?”
Kailynn tugged her lip between her teeth. “No. I don’t know. I know Drew and I weren’t right together, but now everything is going to be in limbo over the business.”
Abi nodded. “Yes, but it’s better to get out sooner rather than later, right? You can’t stay with him just to keep the business together.” Abi leaned forward. “You deserve to be happy.”
“I know. It’s just…” she drifted off. “It’s just that the next year is going to suck, and I don’t even know where to start.”
“Dare I say to ask your parents?”
Kailynn lifted an eyebrow, and Abi put her hands up in defeat.
“I know, I know,” Abi said. And as if a thought suddenly occurred to her, she snapped a finger. “Oh hey, I know a lawyer. He’s new in town and maybe he could help. He’s actually my neighbor.”
Kailynn’s cheeks tinged red at the thought of the man in the suit being her lawyer, and suddenly she hoped he was the neighbor to whom Abi referred.
“Really?”
“Yeah, actually. He’s a great guy—at least from what I know of him. His name is Chase. Let me get you his info.”
Abi clicked around on her cell phone for a second, and then sent a text to Kailynn with Chase’s name, number, and the name of his business. Kailynn clicked the link to his website and her face flushed as his face filled the screen.
The pizza pocket guy was, in fact, the lawyer.
“What?” Abi asked.
Kailynn glanced up quickly from her phone. “What what?”
“You’re all red!”
Kailynn could feel her face flame even more. “No, I’m not.”
Abi laughed loudly. “Yes, you are! He’s hot, right?”
“I saw him today. We ran into each other.”
“What else happened?”
“Nothing else.”
Abi gave her a look that clearly said she didn’t believe her. “Oh please. You don’t turn red over a guy for nothing.”
Kailynn laughed. “He’s just really cute.”
She peeked at his picture on her phone again, and the butterflies fluttered in her stomach. There’s no way she could develop a crush mere hours after her breakup with her longtime boyfriend. No way. She brushed the thought aside.
3
Chase Romano shuffled through the papers on his desk. The mountain continuously grew, and it appeared it would never go away. As if on cue, his secretary appeared with even more work.
