A summer affair: a novel by Elin Hilderbrand

Author:Elin Hilderbrand [Elin Hilderbrand]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Roman
ISBN: 9780316080507
Published: 2010-09-15T08:36:38+00:00

The following morning, Claire woke up with the worst hangover of her life. It wasn’t just the alcohol, although her head hammered with pain and her stomach squelched and she released foul gas that Jason certainly would have complained about, had he been in bed. But Jason’s side of the bed was empty, smooth; it had never been slept in. He had spent the night in the guest room, which they had agreed never to do except in case of marital emergency, because J.D. and Ottilie were both old enough to construe what this meant, and neither Claire nor Jason wanted stories, true or false, about their sleeping arrangements leaving the house. So the fact that Jason had spent the night in the guest room indicated that matters were dire indeed. Claire had insulted him; she had called his love, and his character, into question, and what offense was worse than that? Once they were inside the house and once Pan had slipped away to her room, Claire tried to explain that she had been upset by her conversation with Siobhan and she’d been drinking her fourth or fifth glass of wine, and when she’d seen Jason and Julie coming down the stairs, she’d jumped to conclusions. She’d accused him, yes, but she was sorry and she begged him to take into consideration the circumstances.

The circumstances are, Jason had said, stumbling over his own soapbox, located six feet from the TV, remote control in hand, that you suck. He’d turned the set on and begun hunting for Junkyard Wars.

Claire, meanwhile, got a glass of water for herself and said, Come to bed. I’ll make it up to you. She was not used to fighting with Jason. They had divided up their life into his territory and her territory; they ruled peacefully, side by side, and their common ground—the marriage—rarely came up as a topic of conversation the way it had tonight. Tonight, their marriage was the Gaza Strip. But even so, Claire was pretty sure she could win Jason over in the usual way.

No, Jason said.

You’re turning down sex, again? she said.

I’m sleeping in the guest room, he said.

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