“Thank you,” she said when she could finally speak.
“Thankyou,” Kristina replied.
CHAPTER 17
Helena
“You okay?” Jennifer asked.
“Sorry?”
“You’re staring at them.”
“Who?”
“I think their names are Becky and Carrie,” Jennifer replied.
“Oh, no.” Helena laughed nervously. “Just going to get the cards.” She walked over to the table and grabbed the stack with their names on them. “Ready to go?”
“Do you want to grab anything from in there?”
“Um…” She looked at Becky and Carrie, who weren’t getting anything from the den. “No, I’m okay.”
“Your room or mine?”
“Yours,” Helena replied.
They headed into Jennifer’s room, and Jennifer locked the door behind them. Helena walked over and sat on the bed before she quickly looked down at the first card in her hand, wanting to take her mind off the fact that Becky was here.
“Are you a competitive person?”
“Sorry?” Jennifer asked, approaching the bed and sitting down next to her.
“Great question to start with, huh?” she asked herself more than Jennifer. “Yes, I’m competitive. You?”
“I don’t think so. Not about life, anyway. I’m a doctor, and that was pretty cutthroat when I was in school and then in my internship, but–”
“I can’t believe she’s here.”
“Sorry? Who?”
“My matchmaker.”
“Nia?”
“No, Becky.”
“Becky is your–”
“I hired Becky to help me find someone, and she did a horrible job. I only went to her specifically because she’s gay and works with women who want to date women. I gave her everything she said she needed, and the women she sent me off with were awful. Not right for me at all. One of them was a woman who travels one hundred percent of the time for work. Like, she’s only home for a few days a month, if that, and I specifically told her that I wanted someone around as much as possible because I’m ready to settle down. One of them had three big dogs, and I’m allergic, which I told her before. It was so bad, I fired her, but–”
“But?” Jennifer asked.
“We became friends.” She smiled. “And we hung out a few times.”
“You became friends with your matchmaker?”
“I thought so. But after I told her that I wasn’t going to keep trying, she kind of pulled away and kept telling me we couldn’t spend any time together because she was busy with work, and I haven’t seen her in a while.”
