No Ordinary Love (A Modern Vintage Romance #5)

29. Chapter 29

Chapter 29

Amara

I felt like I was in a dream.

I was engaged to Lucas Covington, and we were going to get married. I couldn't believe this had happened. I just…couldn't wrap my head around it.

I called Basil, who was in town for Thanksgiving and told him. Gemma was with him, so she screeched in delight.

"Would you mind if we joined you for Thanksgiving?" Basil asked.

"What about your folks?"

"COVID."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Both of them?"

"Yeah. They're not experiencing too many symptoms, but they're testing positive, so they're out of commission."

Gemma had planned to spend Thanksgiving with Basil as her family was spread out this year and were not getting together until Christmas.

"Yes, of course. Come on over. Dad will be excited to see you both."

After that conversation, I texted Lucas again and wished him good luck with his board meeting. I knew this was going to be a tough one, what with Hugh planning a coup. The fact that Lucas seemed to not give a shit about his job as CEO had first worried me, and then I'd realized that he'd finally decided that he was more than his job. There was more to his life than running LPC. It was probably a lesson I should learn from him, as my identity was so closely tied to being an academic.

I called Jax and asked him what he was doing for Thanksgiving. He apparently was not going to see his parents because he'd had a blowout with his father, and the situation with his family was tense. So, I invited him over as well.

It was going to be a full house for the holidays, I thought gleefully.

Thanksgiving was one of my favorite holidays. The food, obviously, was the draw, but so was everything else. The family coming together, watching the football game, eating the leftovers until you were sick of turkey and gravy.

Last year, I went to New York to be with my dad while Lucas stayed in Charleston. For Christmas, Lucas and I had Christmas Eve at my old place and Christmas Day at Lucas's family home. Dad had been more than uncomfortable with the Covington setup, though he had liked Rena very much. I was glad that this year he would enjoy some warm weather, the beach, and no stuffy Covingtons around the table for Christmas.

I looked at the time and felt tension seep back into me. Lucas's board meeting had begun.

I got ready quickly, determined to be in his office when he came out of the boardroom, no matter how the vote on his leadership at LPC turned out. Rena had told me not to worry, but I couldn't help it. I didn't want Lucas to lose the job he'd worked so hard for. A part of me couldn't shake the feeling that this was happening because of me. He blamed Hugh and Kath, but I still felt responsible, and that made me even more determined to be there to support him.