Blindsided (Indigo Love Spectrum) by Williams Tammy

Author:Williams, Tammy [Williams, Tammy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781585715930
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp
Published: 2009-08-04T07:00:00+00:00

Norris returned to his condo, feeling particularly happy considering Dahlia had shot him down yet again. But this brush-off gave him hope. He’d changed his game plan, and it appeared to be working. Be accommodating. He would give Dahlia what she thought she wanted, and in the long run he’d get what he wanted, a long and happy future with her.

He tossed his suit coat to the couch and clicked on the television. Norris Converse at home alone on a Saturday night. He dropped to the couch and flipped through the channels. He’d thought last week was a fluke, but two weeks in a row presented an unlikely pattern. He’d worked late last Friday, had dinner with Ryan and Lara last night, but another Saturday night found him watching cable news. He groaned. Dahlia had to get past her issues soon.

Thirty minutes into a special on the economy, Norris heard a knock on his door. He smiled, feeling a strong sense of validation. Dahlia had come to her senses quicker than he’d expected. He moved to the door and pulled it open. “I knew you would . . .” He stopped abruptly. “Mom.”

“You remember me,” she said, walking past him and into the living room. “You might want to close the door, son. Those horrible bugs that fly around the light fixtures might find their way inside.”

Norris closed the door and gazed at his mother, who was getting way too comfortable on his couch. Genevieve Converse was a woman who liked things her way, and when she didn’t get it, she wasn’t happy. From an old-money Greek family, the sixty-three-year-old socialite was a curt, overbearing snob. And that was on her good days. “What are you doing here?”

“Don’t you check your messages?”

“Yes.”

“Then you know I said I was coming for a visit.” Genevieve sniffled, probably from the painful-looking extra-tight bun she had her dark hair pulled into. “Your father and I are having problems,” she said, dabbing at misty gray eyes.

“I’m sorry to hear that, Mom,” he said with as much feeling as he could muster, “but you won’t be able to fix them when you’re here and he’s . . . Where is Dad?”

“The Riviera, the last I heard. Probably lying on the beach with some naked tart at his side.” She shook her head, as if clearing the image from her mind. “We are officially separated, and times like these I need my children.”

“You have two other children,” Norris reminded her, none too pleased with being the chosen child on this occasion.

“Yes, but Lane is out of the country on business and your sister is . . . I don’t know where your sister is. I always know where you are. It’s the one good thing about you living among commoners in South Carolina.”

“Commoners. Weren’t you and Dad the ones who insisted Lane, Julia, and I live amongst the ‘commoners’ as we grew up?”

“No, no, no, that was not my idea, it was your father’s. Had I my

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