Carry Her Heart by Jacobs Holly

Author:Jacobs, Holly [Jacobs, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2015-04-28T07:00:00+00:00

I pondered my relationship with Anthony for the next two weeks. The annual snowstorms began arriving in earnest. Band after band of cold Canadian air blew over our warmer great lake, picking up moisture. When it reached land, it dumped not inches of snow but feet.

The back garden became a winter fairyland. Snow coated the branches. My birdbath froze over, and every day I trudged along the packed-down path and melted the ice and replaced it with water before I filled the feeders.

Some days, when the weather wasn’t too harsh, I walked through the snow-covered garden, enjoying the starkness that was so different from the lushness in summer . . . different but equally beautiful.

I missed writing on my porch, but truthfully, the chair by the window was only a foot from where I normally sat. It was a Stickley chair and I swear they designed it for me to write from.

From my seat I could still watch the rhythm of my neighborhood.

I watched school begin, then end each day. Kids arrive and depart.

I saw delivery people drive by and occasionally stop.

Being inside served to separate me from everyone else. I felt more removed, and the world seemed much quieter than it felt in other seasons.

In that silence, there was nothing for me to do but think.

I saw very little of Anthony. He was busy with a case; I was busy with a deadline. When he did come over, we didn’t talk about Thanksgiving or children. We also didn’t speak about what I now suspected were his political ambitions.

Moving to a new city as a partner in a law firm. That might have been a strategic business move, or it might have been the first step in a political career.

The subjects we didn’t speak of added to the wall that was growing between us. Each visit, it became more apparent and harder to ignore.

Ned had been busy with work, too. I wondered if he was investigating things for Anthony’s case, but he didn’t say and I didn’t ask. I just knew that he left his house early, so most mornings, I went over, got Princess, and walked the dogs together. But without Ned’s company, I had even more time to think.

Normally I’d be thinking about whatever book I was working on—my work-in-progress. Or I’d be thinking about Amanda’s Pantry. But now, all my thoughts were on Anthony as I tried to work out what I should do.

When I was totally honest with myself, I acknowledged I didn’t need to work out what I should do. I was working out how to accept it. How to accept that I’d spent a year with a man I didn’t love.

The week before Christmas, Anthony called and asked if he could come over. It was a very formal request, especially coming from a man who more than once had made decisions on both our behalves.

As I waited for him, I realized there was no sense of anticipation. I hadn’t missed him. All the little snippets of thought that had skittered around the fringes of my awareness landed with a thud.

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