The Girl He Left Behind
“I don’t care anymore. I have friends now. I’m sure you made plenty in London.” She didn’t look affected at all. The coldness of it actually made me shiver.
“You’re being immature.”
“You’re an asshole.”
“Watch your tone. I’m still your boss.”
“My apologies, Mr. Montgomery,” she said, quiet now.
“Don’t I get a welcome-back hug?” I asked, hoping, now that we’d finally said something real, she’d give an inch.
Jasmine Ray and Japheth Montgomery were best friends before they were anything else — before four years of silence turned two children into strangers wearing grown-up names.
Then he comes home. As her boss.
Japheth is handed a company in crisis, a rival who wants to watc