Blue Sage (Anne Stuart's Greatest Hits Book 3) by Anne Stuart

Author:Anne Stuart [Stuart, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-28T18:00:00+00:00

Ellie couldn’t eat anything that night. She could barely bring herself to turn on the lights. Instead she curled up in bed, willing the night to close down over her and shut out the pain and anger and confusion that were tearing her apart.

It worked for a few hours. When she woke it was past eleven. She felt hot, sticky and unutterably depressed. The rain was still falling outside, a steady, relentless downpour that should have been soothing, and the house felt cold and damp.

The shower she took did little to warm her. She picked at her food, took a desultory sip of white wine before pushing it away, then she sat in the kitchen and tried to think of excuses to call Doc.

She’d be a fool to do so. Ginger wouldn’t be there. Ginger didn’t take no for an answer, even if Tanner was the sort of man to give that answer. They’d be together, while Ellie sat alone and miserable in her mausoleum of a house.

Why did she stay? She didn’t really have to wait until the Fourth of July. She could pack her bags and go now, right now. She didn’t have cash, but she had credit cards, and the tiny bank in Morey’s Falls had a bigger branch in Bozeman where she could draw enough money for her needs. Then she’d never have to see Tanner again, never have to deal with Ginger’s gloating.

She was being stupid and childish. She’d promised herself she’d stay till the dedication, and stay she would. She wasn’t going to let Ginger’s sexual desperation or Tanner’s disturbing presence stop her from doing exactly what she’d planned to do.

She took another sip of her wine, but it tasted vinegary. Maybe she wouldn’t feel so bad if she knew what she was missing. The books she’d read made lovemaking seem miraculous, splendid, the center of the universe. The attempted reality had been hideously uncomfortable and embarrassing. It was probably somewhere in between. One probably just ignored the less pleasant aspects and enjoyed the snuggling part of it. But damn, it had been so long since someone had held her. Longer than she could remember.

Well, let Tanner and Ginger enjoy each other. If the only men Ellie had ever tried to make love with had failed to perform, it had to be a lack in her, not them. And she absolutely couldn’t bear to see the look in Tanner’s blue eyes when he discovered it.

She watched the hands move slowly, inexorably around the electric clock in the kitchen. She listened to the somber, depressing tones of the grandfather clock in the hall chime each quarter hour. She didn’t realize till half past twelve that she wasn’t going to sleep until she found out for certain.

All the houses around her were dark when she climbed into the Buick. She crept along the empty streets, heading out toward Doc’s house, feeling like an immature teenager. She was halfway there when she changed her mind. The Barlow house was one of the few in town that boasted a two-car garage.

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