Resilient (PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN #1) by Kari Lee Harmon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Kari Lee Harmon
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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re·sil·ient
ADJECTIVE
(of a person or animal) able to withstand or recover quickly from
difficult conditions.
“I must be having a mental breakdown. Why else would I have swiped
right?” I said into my cell phone with shaking hands as I headed down
the hall away from the dining room.
I had been married for a long time to my high school sweetheart. Our
love life had been sweet and innocent at the beginning, and then more like a
routine scheduled appointment at the end. I had no clue what I was doing,
and had certainly never done anything quite so adventurous before. Now
that the moment of truth had arrived, I wasn’t at all sure I could go through
with tonight.
“Zoe, you don’t have to go through with this,” one of my best friends,
Tiffany, said from the other end of the phone line. “It’s not too late. You can
just leave. Men do it all the time.”
“No, no. I need this.” I took a deep breath. “We all know the mayor will
never choose me as the party planner for the Labor Day bash over my rival
Bitsy if I don’t loosen up. It’s time.” I’d worked my way into such a frenzy
I’d barely tasted the succulent lobster dripping melted butter all over my
plate at the quaint little seafood restaurant on the shores of Cape Cod.
My hand rested on the doorknob to my room at Hilda’s Bed and
Breakfast, and a slight frown tipped down the corners of my mouth. Max.
The last time I’d visited the Cape was when Max had surprised me on our
fifteenth wedding anniversary. I ordered lobster then, too, and vividly
remembered the tender meat falling apart in my mouth, seasonings oozing
over my tongue, and Max’s finger reaching out to swipe a drop of butter
from my lip.
My frown turned to an outright scowl. Now that I knew what a deadbeat
husband and father Max had turned out to be, the lobster sat in my stomach
like a lump of angry crustacean trying to claw its way out. I couldn’t blame
it, really. It was a shame to eat lobster and not enjoy it.
“Well, if you insist on going through with this, you know we’re here for
you, doll. You’ll be fine. You always are.” Tiffany’s encouraging voice
brought me out of my lunchtime lamentation and back to my nighttime
nightmare.
Twisting the doorknob, I pushed it open and felt my stomach cramp as
the lobster pitched and rolled down Nervous Highway, heading north
towards Esophagus Drive. I pressed my lips together, hoping I wouldn’t
throw up, but when it decided to take a sharp detour south onto Large
Intestine Avenue, my eyes sprang wide.
“Fine, my foot. Hang on a sec.” I tossed my phone on the bed and
bolted into the bathroom just in time.
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