When Lara Bennett is called for a job interview, the last person she expects to run into is her old high school sweetheart. She hasn’t seen Meredith in years, having lost touch when they headed off to different colleges. Meeting up with her again after all this time reignites feelings Lara thought long buried.<br><br>Meredith Marshall owns Marshall Ad Agency. When she saw Lara’s resume, she hoped it belonged to the girl she first fell in love with as a teen, and she isn’t disappointed when Lara shows up for the interview.<br><br>After work, Meredith invites Lara to dinner. Things heat up between them at the restaurant, reminding the women how right they used to be together. Can Lara land the job -- and Meredith’s heart, too?

Eating Out

One by one, things soured with every relationship. I was so busy having fun with Ms. Right Now that I no longer bothered with finding Ms. Right. I didn’t have to; I’d known her once already. But years spanned the distance between now and then. What Meredith and I had shared back in the day took on a rose-tinged hue, more fantasy than not, a romance I knew I’d never find again.


When my mother fell ill, it was the push I needed to leave behind the hectic hustle of DC and head on home. I had half a thought that I might see Meredith around town, but I didn’t. My mother got better, I grew bored with small town life all over again, and decided to move to Richmond, instead. It wasn’t quite the big city I’d left behind, but wasn’t the cloying closeness that threatened to suffocate me in Clarksville. My family lived a half hour away on the interstate and I was once again on my own in a large city.


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