CHAPTER 24
The week went by in another frantic wave of work for both of them. Lizzy was under a big tsunami of a new client's shitty mess of a company, Darcy was weighing his heavy hand on the New York mess of an office.
They managed to talk often by texts during the day and phone calls at night, but as they were both extremely tired by the end of the day, the calls were just sweet nothings whispered to each other.
Thursday lunch, Darcy had a massive indigestion. His father called him back to Seattle because an emergency board meeting was summoned by a minor member. That could not mean something nice, so Darcy gathered a few documents, his laptop and headed for the airport straight from the office. His house was still perfectly functional in Seattle, so he wouldn't need any luggage.
He tried to call Lizzy several times during the jammed traffic ride, but she never picked up. Finally when he was in the airport's endless security line, he got a text from her.
'Stuck in long meeting. Deep shit. Call u asap. Miss u.'
"Not good enough", he thought. William Darcy would not do the same mistake twice. He was not going to invite her to Seattle by text. He planned that Lizzy could meet him in Seattle Friday night and they could come back together Monday, early afternoon. Purely on wishful thinking, he considered a red eye on Tuesday. Darcy would fly with Lizzy to Boston only to spend the length of the flight with her, and then take another one to New York. But all that would have to be asked very lovingly on the phone.
'Need to talk to you. Miss you too, Darling.'
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