Carly's Gift by Georgia Bockoven

Author:Georgia Bockoven
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062279866
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-07-21T00:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

David leaned back in his chair and stared at the computer screen. He’d run into problems with books before, including a couple of bouts of writer’s block, but this was different. His concentration wasn’t what it should be. Ideas and possible solutions to plot problems would come to him and then disappear before he could get out a notepad to write them down.

Granted his life had taken some rather unexpected and disruptive turns of late, but nothing he hadn’t handled. Besides, if he used Andrea for an excuse now, what was he going to use when she left in two days and his protagonist was still stuck with an attaché case, three kids, and two hundred pages to come up with an answer to his problems?

David propped his feet on the desk and ran his hands through his hair. Andrea’s leaving was preying more heavily on his mind than he wanted to admit. They had carefully kept up the fantasy that she was only going home for a visit and that she’d be back in a week, but David was finding it harder and harder to lie to himself about it. There was too much to hold her when she got there. It had taken every bit of his persuasive powers to keep her from hopping the first plane headed west when she found out about Shawn’s accident. Finally she’d agreed it made sense to finish the final four days of school before Easter break and give Shawn time to get home from the hospital.

Once she stepped back in her old life, nothing would pry her loose again. He’d be lucky to see her for a couple of weeks in the summer.

But then hadn’t that been the whole idea? Just because Andrea had already stayed far longer than he and Carly had expected wasn’t sufficient reason for him to allow himself to think she might stay forever.

From the day she’d arrived, their time together had been set up to be finite.

At least that was how it was supposed to have been. Who could have known she would stay so long or that he would derive such pleasure from her company?

He countered the sense of loss he was already feeling by telling himself that when she was gone, he’d be able to get his life together again. The book would flow; his publisher would be happy; Victoria would be happy. All would be right with the world.

He’d never been much good at self-delusion; now was no exception.

David looked up when he felt, more than heard, someone enter the room. Prepared to go on the attack at the intrusion, he buried his anger when he saw it was Andrea.

As soon as it had become obvious her stay was going to be longer than a couple of weeks, David had explained his working methods, stressing that when the door to his office was closed, he was not to be disturbed under any but the most pressing circumstances. What he hadn’t taken into consideration was a teenager’s interpretation of pressing.

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