Aspen Gold by Janet Dailey

Author:Janet Dailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 1991-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Bannon and his buckskin cruised through the stand of pines that grew on Silverwood property. Bannon could almost feel the alien qualities of the soil come up through the legs of his horse-and knew the moment they crossed onto Stone Creek Ranch even though there was no fence to mark the boundary. The quality of home soil was that real to him. He’d been born on it and raised on it. No matter the distance he traveled from it, the primitive pull of Stone Creek land was there.

He crested the ridge and sent his mount down the trail on the other side. Where it widened before the rocky defile, he reined the buckskin in briefly and glanced at the ground at the base of the tree, replaying the scene with Kit in his mind. One powerful flash, like heat, had touched them both, disturbing them in a manner they had both recognized. He relived it-as he had relived so many others like it with Kit.

Swinging away from the sight, he heeled the buckskin into the rocks and remembered those days when he and Kit had been young, headstrong, and totally absorbed in each other. Yet, in the space of two months, he’d married Diana and changed the course of his life.

Looking back, from the distance of ten years, he couldn’t say what had been in his head or his heart then. He couldn’t be sure anymore of the reasons for his sudden act. It could have been rooted in his quarrel with Kit, or in the magical torch parade and fireworks of the winter carnival, or in the eyes and lips of Diana when she’d looked at him.

Sometimes there was no explanation for the things a young man did. He’d left his youth behind that night, and he’d left Kit behind. Whatever his feelings for her had been, he’d thrown them away. He’d never spoken of that time to her, and he’d never seen an emotion in her eyes that told him how she felt.

All this was the past that bound him with its eternal regret for having failed. The marriage had been a mistake, as Diana had soon told him. Even though he recognized it as a mistake, he couldn’t stop thinking that if he’d made a greater effort or had possessed a better insight into Diana’s heart, he might have been able to make her feel differently. In his moments of deep loneliness and restless need, the old reproach of her eyes came back to make him feel that it was his fault.

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