Chapter Ninety-One

Kelsey

The oncoming weeks flew by, and Mack and I hardly saw each other. As far as I knew, he’d stayed holed in his office over Thanksgiving, only having a quiet dinner with his mother, while I begrudgingly traveled to Kansas to celebrate with my father and his husband and elementary aged step kids. In secret, I’d hoped Mack would show up, whisking me away in the night and getting lost in each other in my hotel room, but that wasn’t the case. Our text messages were as dirty as ever, but this time when I said I wish you were here, he didn’t show. 

The end of the year was fast approaching, and although our fiscal year ended in February, Mack still felt pressured to have everything organized and ready to go by the New Year. I thought he was micro-managing, but I wasn’t the one to tell him how to do his job.

“How do I look?” Mindy giggled, wiggling her hips to make the bells jingle on the tips of her skirt. 

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