Confession of an Abandoned Wife - Box Set (Books 1-3) by Hartstein Michal

Author:Hartstein, Michal [Hartstein, Michal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-09-22T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

For years, I’d saved a place in my heart for Eric, my charming tennis instructor, with whom I had been in love with from the age of seventeen, a love that had disappeared from my life when he left Israel with his wife when I was twenty and he had moved to Holland and out of my life.

Or so I had thought.

There’s something about an unfulfilled love that stays with you. What had never really started, had never ended. For years, I’d fantasized about him, even during the good times with Itay, and definitely during the bad times. I was intrigued to know where he was, what was going on with him, and most of all, what might have happened if we hadn’t been so hesitant all those years ago. I’d even searched for his name online from time to time. I didn’t find anything.

Now, nearly fifteen years since the last time we’d seen each other, here we were, bumping into each other, and on my home turf.

During the years in which I fantasized about meeting Eric again, I’d also feared meeting him. I was afraid that if Eric, who, in my memory, was my ideal man, suddenly showed up as an elderly man, my fantasy would shatter within minutes. Eric had, indeed, grown older. He was not an old man, but nor was he a man in his thirties either. He was a man of forty-five. I was afraid he’d be bald or fat by now; he actually had less hair and was more full-figured than I remembered, but he was still - obviously - a very impressive man. I was very worried about how I looked. He was still tall and strong, but I was no longer that skinny girl that he had known fifteen years ago. I was a woman who had given birth… twice.

"Sharon!" he said, his eyes wide with disbelief as I entered the room.

"Eric?" I asked, surprised. The question was unnecessary. I recognized him as soon as I entered the room.

"Sure. What - you don’t remember me?"

"What are you doing here?" I asked and immediately regretted the silly question.

"It turns out we have a meeting with you," he smiled, flashing his white teeth.

I smiled back and sat down. After we explained the connection between us to the rest of the people present, our meeting began. Eric was friendly and nice, but nothing in his behavior or his speech hinted at the old love we’d shared. Maybe it was all in my head, I thought. Maybe I’d spent all these years reminiscing about memories that might not have occurred. The perfectly politically-correct attitude I received from him throughout the meeting helped me get a hold of myself after the initial shock, and I even enjoyed waving my knowledge and professionalism in front of Eric, whom I’d seen last when I was a young soldier. It was evident that I impressed him with my professional abilities as a lawyer.

Eric and his two partners were, quite

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