Bella Andre-_-Never Too Hot by Irae

Author:Irae [Irae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-16T17:21:01.503000+00:00

More emotion.

More tenderness.

When she finally stepped back to catch her breath, she realized what she was doing. She was painting Connor in all the ways she saw him. Swimming across the lake, doing sit-ups on the beach, but also naked and levered above her in bed, his eyes full of desire as he told her she was beautiful. She was painting him as a hero, saving the world single-handedly.

And then, standing in the middle of flames, melting down inside, but doing everything he could to hide it.

She jumped as a sharp sound knocked her out of the zone. Realizing it was the phone, she dropped her brush and ran to get it.

After this morning, the phone felt like the bearer of bad news. What news could be coming now? She prayed it wasn’t anything that would hurt Connor more.

“Ginger, darling, it’s me.”

Ah, her mother. She plopped down on one of the nearby kitchen chairs. Alexandra liked to tell her all the gossip. And even though Ginger wasn’t at all interested in the comings and goings of a bunch of her mother’s friends, she was glad for the growing connection with her mother. Amazingly, in the eight months since she’d left the city, they’d spoken more on the phone than they had in person during her whole marriage when they lived just down the street.

“I’m sorry I haven’t been in touch since last week. It’s been so busy with fund-raising for the upcoming opera season, as you know.”

Her mother cleared her throat and Ginger had the strangest sense that she was uncomfortable.

Alexandra Sinclair was never uncomfortable and it sent a flicker of unease down Ginger’s spine.

“In any case, dear, I needed to call and tell you the news. Before you hear it from anyone else.”

Ginger could hear her father saying something in the background.

“No, I can’t just hang up without telling her now,” her mother hissed at him, before saying to Ginger, “Honey, when I was at lunch today I heard that Jeremy and his new girlfriend

…”

It wasn’t hard for Ginger to fill in the blanks. “They’re getting married.”

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