Kiss A Handsome Stranger. Jacqueline Diamond
the salmon in the courtyard, he reflected that he hadn’t cooked with a woman other than one of his sisters since he’d moved into this house. He’d had a few girlfriends at his previous place, a tract home, but had found it awkward trying to cook as they peppered him with queries.
The food tasted delicious, and for once Daisy didn’t give the impression of trying to edge away from him. As they talked, she wore the same rapt expression as on their first night.
“I’m amazed at how much you’ve accomplished. Buying this house, for instance,” she said. “Elise told me you put yourself through law school and helped pay for your younger sisters’ education as well. It can’t have been easy.”
No, it hadn’t been. “I didn’t mind the long hours,” Chance said. “And, as you can see, I’ve come out well enough. There’s only one thing I regret.”
“What’s that?”
He’d never admitted this to anyone before. “I wanted to get top grades and make the law review, but I couldn’t quite manage it while working so many hours. That bothered me for quite a while.”
“What if you had made the law review?” Daisy asked. “How would your life be different?”
No wasted sympathy, no superficial reassurances that it didn’t matter. She’d cut right to the heart of the matter.
“I’d probably be in Washington or New York right now, handling cases on which the future of a company or an industry was riding,” he said. “That’s what my former fiancée is doing.”
She finished a forkful of salmon before asking, “Is that what you really wish you were doing?”
Chance leaned back in his chair. “I envy Gillian sometimes. Remember the Robert Frost poem about two paths diverging in a yellow wood, and how he could have taken either one?”
Daisy nodded. “We read it in school.”
“Sometimes I think it’s still there, that fork in the road, that path I might have taken,” he admitted.
“Are you tempted to go back and take the other path?”
He supposed he was, but high-stakes careers didn’t land in a man’s lap. “The opportunity will never arise unless I fight for it,” he said. “And I’m too comfortable to do that.”
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