Over Coffee — Barbara Briggs Ward

To Cate, her job as a newspaper reporter is so much more. It's her passion. While she understands the industry is going through tough times, Cate assumes the executive who'd signed the email announcing expected furloughs wasn't concerned that Christmas was three weeks away. She's certain he didn't know her divorce had been finalized nor did he realize or care she was on her own with a two-year-old anticipating Santa Claus.

Sitting in her favorite coffee house working on a story, her assumption is about to change when that executive himself sits down at her table. Sometimes the obvious isn't. Sometimes when we think we have the rest of our life planned, our heart takes us in a different direction and that can be a gift all in itself.