Beyond Time by Wendy Stone

Author:Wendy Stone [Stone, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: summer, Eternal Press, horrific, Beyond Time, memory, contemporary, Sad, romance, small town, Wendy Stone, Time
Publisher: Eternal Press
Published: 2011-12-07T08:00:00+00:00

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It was four days later when there was a timid knock on the front door. Lauren answered it, a big grin on her face as she saw Cadie standing on the porch. “It’s good to see you, Cadie.”

“Is Jack here?” she asked, walking inside.

“Yeah, he’s got ten days off of work and he’s crawling the walls with boredom. He’s in his room. You know the way.”

Cadie waved at Jack Senior, who was sitting at the dining room table, the dishes from lunch moved out of the way so that he and his wife could have their duel to the death with cards. She stopped before the closed door of Jack’s room, her eyes trained to never go beyond that door. She didn’t want to see Mattie’s door open, not when he wasn’t running out to meet her, to sling his arm around her neck and plant a huge kiss on her lips.

She let out a deep breath, then lifted her hand and knocked on the door.

“Yeah?”

Cadie slowly opened the door, seeing the back of Jack’s head facing toward the doorway, a tray with half a turkey sandwich and the most of a big salad on the floor.

“I’m fine Mom,” he growled, his voice husky as if from lack of use.

“That’s nice to know, Jack. Why do you have time off from work and why is your mom bringing you trays of food in here?”

Jack felt a single ray of hope shine on his heart and he spun, sitting up in bed, his fingers on his good hand slicking down his hair. “Uh, hey Cadie. I wasn’t expecting to see you today.”

“I’m going stir crazy at home and I thought you might be too. I was going to leave a message for you with your mom cuz I thought you’d be at work.” She saw his arm, the cast that covered the bottom half of his arm and dropped on her knees beside him, reaching out to touch his fingers. “What did you do?”

“I got into a fight.”

“With who and over what?” she demanded.

He could almost see her going into town and taking on someone just because he hurt his hand.

“Well, you know the path to the watering hole? It was the third tree on the right side. I heard I tore quite a big chunk out of it actually. You’d have thought so by all the pieces they took out of my hand.”

“A tree? Jack, what did that tree ever do to you?”

“I made an ass out of myself. I pushed at you when you weren’t ready to let go of Mattie or even think of having another man in your life. I’m so sorry. If you’ll forgive me, I promise not to make an ass out of myself more than once or twice a month.” He lifted his hand, touching her cheek gently. “Please, Cadie. You’ve got to save me. I have to get out of here.”

Cadie bent and pressed a kiss to his hand. “Get a shirt on.

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