A Winter's Secret (A Winter's Tale Book 4) by Kristi Tailor

Author:Kristi Tailor [Tailor, Kristi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 7th Meadow Publishing
Published: 2020-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Nicholas stretched his long torso across the queen size mattress and out of habit rolled to his left to wrap his legs around Charlotte, only this time she wasn’t there. Frowning, he opened his eyes in the still dim room and sat up. Without a thought, he got out of bed and walked through the small apartment to confirm the obvious− she was gone.

Glancing out the living room window Nicholas’ frown deepened at the thought of Charlotte leaving out so early in the morning. Did she go for a run? He wondered. “If she did, it would only be to the park and back,” he said to himself. Sighing, he headed back to their bedroom for his Blackberry. Angry or not, leaving out by yourself isn’t the brightest idea. Not with that psycho watching our every move. Turning on the bedroom light switch, Nicholas stopped cold in the doorway, his steel gaze fixed on the bedside table.

There on the dark oak fixture lay Charlotte’s marital rings on top of a folded piece of paper. He stood in the archway for a long minute, contemplating his next move, read the note, or ball it up . . . it didn’t matter because whatever was written on the scrap wasn’t going to change his resolve. Nevertheless, allowing curiosity to get the better of him, Nicholas made his way across the room to the nightstand and with gentle fingers pulled the folded paper from under the gold bands.

Too much has happened. Please pack your things

and be gone before I get home from work.

She went to work. Grabbing his cell phone off the floor, Nicholas quickly turned around and headed toward the front door− balling up the note and grabbing his sneakers along the way. Their marriage wasn’t over, he refused to accept it. Wouldn’t accept it. Even if he had been the cause of their plight it didn’t matter, they made vows before God . . . for better, or for worse. This is not the end of us, he avowed. I won’t let it be.

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