“Already turned down a proposal.”
“Why?”
“I am determined to be the best neurosurgeon in the states. Marriage is way off if I ever do it. Besides, I realized I wasn’t in love with him.”
“That’s a pretty good reason,” Gins said.
They all laughed.
“You know what?” Gins asked. “You two should go to parties with me. I can tell you they are a lot of fun.”
“The parties your company is putting on? Don’t you have to work at them?” Lizzi was curious.
“Nope, like you, I have people to run the show. Like my dad told me, we’re the face of the company. And we could go to Val’s resorts, his mansion, and ride on his yacht.”
“Wow, you have quite the life, Ms. Santini.”
Gins smiled her gracious smile. “Where do you live, Jessie?”
“Just across the way in the Towers One condos. And you?”
“Not bad. I live in my father’s house on Beacon Hill. Hey, Lizzi, move your office here to Boston. The three of us could have so much fun.”
“I have…” both Gins and Jessica started to say. Jessica bowed to Gins and put her hand toward her.
“I was going to say I have plenty of room for you at my place when you come to Boston.”
Jessica nodded to agree she had the same.
“Wait,” Gins said. She took out her phone, found a picture and turned it for the other two to see.
“What, is that Vice President-elect Michael Fredrick with you?” Jessica asked.
“Yep.”
“You know him?”
“Yep. He and my dad were friends. They were in Harvard Law School together.”
“Harvard? Six degrees of separation.” Jessica smiled.
“Let me see,” Lizzi said with a half smile. She took the phone and tightened the picture to see the whole photo. “This was on the Boston Globe online society page for the president-elect’s fundraiser here.”
Gins smiled her gracious smile.
“This is not what I expected today,” Lizzi said. “I thought I was just going to meet an old friend of my papa’s. I’m all alone now. No mother or father, or brother.” She looked at Jessica. “I had no idea I had family.”
She reached over and took Jessica’s hand. Then turned to Gins and took hers.
Gins smiled and laid her other hand on Jessica’s. “Whether we’re blood-related or not, we are three sisters Elizabeth: forever friends.”
Thank you for reading Families - Forever Friends: Book 3. I hope you enjoyed the series.
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About the Author
My name is Karleen Staible. I am a child of the 50s and 60s—1950s, that is; I’m not coming to you from the future—Sci-fi is not my genre. I write contemporary women with some romance in the mix. Life was simple in my younger days: no childproof anything, we never locked our doors, and my dad left the keys in the car so he could quickly respond to a fire with the Arvada Volunteer Fire Department.
Our street was a dead-end dirt road with seven houses. We played outside as long as our parents allowed us, and objected when we heard the call to go home at night. In the open fields, we played baseball or hide-and-go-seek throughout the neighborhood. And yes, we did drink out of the garden hose.
I lived in that same house from the age of two until twenty when I married my husband, Fred. After he graduated from college, we didn’t stay in the Denver area for very long.
He worked in the oil and gas business as an engineer. A few years after we married, he got involved with Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and we were off to Algeria. And there started our expat lives. We lived and traveled all over the world, met many interesting people, and made friends who became family.
I learned to use the computer on one of our assignments overseas. I’m fascinated with the many things you can do on a computer, constantly learning new programs and techniques. I especially like doing special digital art, from video editing to designing my own book covers.
I can honestly say I’m in need of nothing. I have had a terrific life, have two wonderful kids, and great in-law kids who are all happy and successful in their careers. Our two granddaughters are definitely the light of our lives. It has been a fabulous life.
My stories reflect situations and people I have met over the years. The characters are personalities of those people I encountered along the way, and the places are cities or towns I found interesting. My childhood upbringing and my heroes are also written into my stories. Each story has a social message: how women, or people in general, can empower themselves to deal with difficult situations.
My goal is not to make millions of dollars, or make my name famous; I just want to write books that everyone will enjoy reading and will want to read more.
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