After the Storm: Midseason Episode 1 (Rising Storm) by Lexi Blake

Author:Lexi Blake [Blake, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Published: 2016-03-27T23:00:00+00:00

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Kristin took a long sip of tea and was thankful she was working today. She needed the time to sort through her jumbled thoughts.

Seeing Travis with Celeste yesterday had been a revelation.

Somehow their relationship had been different in her mind. Yes, she’d seen them out together, but there was always a distance between them. She would have sworn she could almost see a wall between the two of them. They would smile at each other, but it seemed like a practiced thing, as though long years together brought about the expression.

Travis’s smile never reached his eyes. Not the way it did when he was with her.

The herbal tea was sweet on her tongue from the honey she’d spooned in. Nothing had ever been as sweet as Travis’s lips on hers. When he’d held her, she’d been the most important person in the world. She’d been young and beautiful and everything else had fallen away.

Had Ginny Moreno and Dakota Alvarez felt the same way about Sebastian Rush?

She put the mug down, her thirst completely gone.

Stupid. She’d been so stupid. She’d seen what she wanted to see. Yesterday had proven the point. Yesterday there had been no walls between Travis and Celeste.

The funny thing was when she’d first heard what Dakota had to say, she’d turned and looked for Travis, desperate to get to him, to comfort him. His whole world had exploded. How would he handle it? He needed her. She’d known it and she had to find him, had to help him.

He’d had his arms around Celeste, holding her like he would never let her go. He’d smoothed his hand over her hair and spoken gently to her. Every bit of his soul had been focused on that woman. He hadn’t even noticed her standing there.

She’d been such a fool. She’d gotten close to Ginny and helped her out because something in her idiotic heart simply couldn’t stand merely sitting by and watching a tragedy happen. She had to reach out every time and offer whatever she had.

And she and Ginny had a lot in common. They’d both loved the wrong man. At least Ginny had gotten something out of it. She’d gotten a baby. It didn’t really matter who the father was. She would have a baby to love and she wouldn’t be alone.

Kristin didn’t even have that. Not even the hope. Travis was very careful. He claimed he was taking care of her, but she knew the truth now. She wasn’t important to him. Not the way his wife was. She’d fooled herself that he would ever leave Celeste.

The sound of a car coming up her drive forced her from her dark thoughts. She glanced out her window and was forced right back into them. Travis’s sedan was making its way toward her drive. He would make his way around to the back where no one could see his car from the road and he wouldn’t knock on the front door. Oh no. Front doors were for people who didn’t mind the neighbors knowing they’d come to visit.

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