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“His only option was to somehow make it up to you When it cas, he wanted you to have a safe landing, so he brought in Barbara”

“But isn’t that controlling and hed “Only if he told you he’d brought Barbara in especially for you and expected you’d take the job offer noit would ruin their friendship, and he’d gone to all the trouble for you, so you’d better fall in line

“But he didn’t tell you he’d set it up, probably because you’d refuse a great opportunity on principle Yes, you scored the interview because of him, but you scored the job on your own And sweetie, you’re really naïve if you think that type of nepotism doesn’t happen all the time, in every corner of business”

“What about this su? He basically set that up too”

Stephanie rolled her eyes “Yes, you’re having such a lousy ti with old friends Proving yourself in sales and event e” She leaned closer “Need I point out that you’ve fallen in love with Tell McKay?”

“No It’s scary, these feeling I have for hi to him I saw it on his face, Stephanie Distrust, disbelief and disgust” Georgia briefly closed her eyes, trying to blink away that i his hands of me is probably for the best”

“The best for who? You’re the happiest you’ve ever been—or you were up until today You can just snap your fingers and forget all that, like it never was?”

Georgia shrank back in the booth “God no”

“But you expect Tell can forget it? And he will?”

“That’s not a fair comparison”

“It is fair, because it’s true Tell loves you I could see it that night at the reunion regardless if he was ready to ad decisions for you that you don’t realize by walking away you’re doing the sa to him”

That stunned her “What a is predestined, Georgia People es in their lives every day”

“But my job is in Dallas My life is there”

Stephanie smacked her hand on the table “Can you please ad your life when you returned to Wyo, but didn’t h the ely spent by herself Living in li for…what?

A man like Tell to come into her life?

No She didn’t need a man to make her complete

If that was true, why had she felt so hollow? So incorad wanted—a job, a decent place to live and a little h?

No It never had been Just like being Deck’s wife hadn’t been enough