SUMMER FIRE
by Gennita
Low, Stacey Mosteller, R.J. Lewis, L. Wilder,
Victoria Danann, Kym Grosso, Cat Miller,
Mimi Barbour, Clarissa Wild, Teresa Gabelman, Linda Barlow,
Helen Scott Taylor, Victoria
James, Mona Risk, Patrice Wilton, Joan Reeves,
Danielle Jamie, Terri Marie, Lorhainne Eckhart , Brandy L. Rivers, Nicole Blanchard
21 ALL NEW Contemporary Romance stories by NY Times, USA Today, and National Bestselling authors.
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from "A Season in Gemini" by Victoria Danann
Garland pulled up in front of her building, grabbed the
rolling suitcase with essential stuff, smiled at Max, the doorman, and gave him
the car keys so that he could have the car parked in a two thousand dollars per
month garage spot nearby. She might not use it again for weeks, or even months,
but it was nice to know she could.
“I’m home!” She took a deep breath and called out to anyone
who might be in the flat. Since it was Sunday that would probably be either her
father or no one.
She walked the length of the kitchen and beyond to a small,
but elegant and sunny breakfast room that overlooked Central Park and was
rarely seen by anyone other than the two living St. Germaines and staff.
“I say, ‘I’m home!’”, she repeated as she flopped into a
chair opposite where her dad was having coffee and reading the paper.
David St. Germaine looked over the top of the Wall Street
Journal. “So I see.”
“Wow. Welcome home.”
He slid a section of the Sunday Times toward where she sat
across the glass top table. “I second the ‘wow’.”
Before looking down at whatever he wanted her to see, she
could tell that he was the farthest thing from happy. When she’d seen him two
days before at graduation, he’d been delighted. He and his date for the day.
Garland didn’t remember her name. There was no point. Her father rarely saw
women more than once.
On the cusp of fifty, he was still handsome, with a little
silver above his ears and a tan that never faded completely because he made a
point of sailing twice a month, when weather and business permitted. He’d been
referred to as ‘eligible bachelor’ in the, ahem, society pages more than once,
but Garland doubted the veracity of that claim. Since her mother’s death, he
hadn’t given anyone reason to think he was ‘eligible’.
Garland tore her eyes away from his scowl, not his most
attractive expression, to look at the paper in front of her. The front and
center color image was none other than herself wearing a short sparkly dress
that had ridden far too high as she fell backwards spilling a colorful beverage
when she went sprawling into the laps of laughing friends.
The headline read, “Germane Enterprises Princess Out on the
Town. Daddy’s little girl lets her hair down and her skirt up.”
As she stared at the page, her father said, “Nice dress,” in
a tone dripping with sarcasm.
Without looking up, she said quietly, “We were just having some
fun. We just graduated…”
“How many times have I told you that what you do reflects on
me? And, by extension, on Germane Enterprises?”
She met his glare. “Thousands.”
“That’s right! Thousands. You would think a girl capable of
graduating Dartmouth summa cum laude would get it after mere dozens of times.”
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