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Back In Pursuit of Happiness
Chapters (45)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Prologue
  4. 1
  5. 2
  6. 3
  7. 4
  8. 5
  9. 6
  10. 7
  11. 8
  12. 9
  13. 10
  14. 11
  15. 12
  16. 13
  17. 14
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  20. 17
  21. 18
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  29. 26
  30. 27
  31. 28
  32. 29
  33. 30
  34. 31
  35. 32
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  37. 34
  38. 35
  39. 36
  40. 37
  41. Epilogue
  42. Acknowledgments
  43. More from Freya Kennedy
  44. About the Author
  45. About Boldwood Books

‘So I’m here, while all my worldly belongings sit in storage and Sophie deals with the completion of the sale. It was my turn to need to have nothing more to do with her, to move on completely. I suppose to prove to myself that I could exist without her. And I can, I think. No, I know I can. Spending time with Paddy, and realising I probably miss Scraps more than Sophie now, has been a great healer.’ Lorcan smiled a sad sort of smile.

Jo took his hand and squeezed it. ‘We’re still here and still breathing,’ she said.

‘And the sun still comes up each morning,’ he added. ‘And good things happen to good people. Things like agents sending emails…’ He raised an eyebrow.

‘How do you know that?’ she asked him and he laughed.

‘I’m new to this place and I seem to know more about it than you do,’ he said. ‘There are few things which remain secret on Ivy Lane. Especially not with Harry’s special powers to make people tell him all the gossip. It’s like a Jedi mind trick or something. Except for pensioners.’

Jo laughed, and told him in quite a brief manner about what was going on. The truth was, even though she knew she could trust Lorcan implicitly now she didn’t want to tell him about Ewan. She didn’t want to risk some sort of weird ‘I told you so’ moment detracting anything from the time they had spent together.

Plus, if she was honest with herself she was utterly, completely emotionally worn out.

So, with their coffee cups now empty, and Jo not able to face another coffee hit, caffeinated or not, she told Lorcan that she should probably be going home.

‘Oh, okay,’ he said. ‘I thought you still might want to hear why I was strange about you going away with Ewan McLachlan. Because I really do want to be honest with you about that.’

‘God, don’t worry about it,’ she said, her stomach tightening.

‘We’ve been so open with each other today, I don’t want anything negative hanging over us. And I do think this is something you need to know,’ he said and his light and jokey manner was gone, replaced by something much more serious. ‘I’m only sorry I didn’t have the guts to tell you before you left.’

31

The Wolf of Wall Street

‘Remember when I said I worked in IT, but it was kind of a Chandler Bing thing? That people got really bored when I started to explain my job?’ Lorcan asked.

Jo nodded.