Don’t Leave Me This Way by Mallory Monroe EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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“She’s nice, JJ.”
“She’s my law clerk. I’m not dating my clerk.”
“You have to date somebody.”
James Joseph “JJ” Brant looked at his beloved sister and smiled.
They were in Bigsby, an upscale restaurant in Scottsdale, Florida, and she
and her five-year-old son were seated in his booth facing him. Desperately
trying to get him to see the harmfulness of loneliness, she wouldn’t let up.
But he just wanted to eat his dinner. “I didn’t know dating somebody had
become a requirement.”
“You know what I mean, JJ.” Sylvia Kramer wasn’t smiling as she
looked at her big brother. “I just hate thinking of you alone in that big
house. It’s not good for man to be alone.”
“I’m not alone. I have you.”
“And me, too, Uncle JJ.”
JJ smiled and reached over and ruffled his nephew’s curly hair.
“And of course you too, Logan,” he said as he continued eating. “How
could I ever forget you?”
As Sylvia looked down at Logan’s plate of food, urging him to eat
his peas, JJ did what he normally did and checked out his surroundings.
The restaurant was packed as usual on a Sunday night and a long line were
waiting to be seated. Scottsdale was a wealthy bedroom community on the
outskirts of Jacksonville that only boasted eight thousand residents in the
last census. That was why he knew most of the faces in the restaurant. But
a handful, including a short guy seated at the bar, he’d never seen before.
“Just keep eating,” Sylvia said to her son. “You’re doing good.”
“But I hate peas,” said Logan as he moved them around on his plate:
many of which he’d already smashed with his fork. “They taste like paste.”
JJ smiled and looked at his nephew. “How would you know what
paste tastes like?”
“Like this,” said Logan, pointing to his peas.
JJ laughed. Sylvia shook her head at her son. “Just like your
father,” she said.
JJ looked at her when she mentioned Artie. “Any changes?”
Sylvia let out a long exhale. “Not a one. And I’ve told him
repeatedly that I will not continue to put up with it. But he’s not hearing
me.”
“Why don’t you and Logan come stay a few days with me? I have
that big house,” he began saying, but Sylvia interrupted him.
“That you need to fill with your own wife and child, not your sister
and nephew.” Then she leaned forward and touched his hand. The way
she sometimes treated him he wondered who was really the oldest. “I
worry about you, JJ.”
“I’m fine, Sylvie.”
“You’re not fine. You haven’t been fine in years. You’re always
alone. You won’t date. It’s like pulling teeth to get you to go anywhere
outside of your normal routine. It’s not good to be by yourself all the time
like that. I just want you to be happy.”
But JJ turned the table on her. “Are you happy?”
She sat there momentarily. Because they both knew the answer to
that. Then she removed her hand and leaned back. “I’m fine,” she said,
tossing it right back at him.
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