Dark Operative_A Glimmer of Hope by I. T. Lucas

Author:I. T. Lucas [Lucas, I. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Children Of The Gods Book 18
Published: 2018-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32: Turner

“Right this way, sir,” the hostess said as she led Turner to the table.

“Thank you.” He took off his suit jacket, hung it on the back of his chair, and sat down.

“Could I offer you something to drink while you wait for the rest of your party?” the hostess asked.

“Water, please.”

“Of course.” She handed him the menu and left two others for Douglas and his fiancée.

Looking at the familiar menu, Turner thought about how different this trip was from the many previous ones he’d taken to meet his son.

Usually, when flying to the East Coast for their semi-annual get-together, Turner stayed for a couple of nights, using the opportunity to visit with some of his Washington contacts. This time, however, he’d scheduled only one dinner appointment and was taking the redeye back to Los Angeles.

It wasn’t that he had some pressing business to attend to back home. He just couldn’t stand the thought of being away from Bridget for any longer than was absolutely necessary.

Was that need to be with her what people called love?

If it were, it was nothing like what Turner had imagined. This wasn’t about a storm of emotions, or about an all-consuming passion, or an uncontrollable longing. There was nothing irrational about what he felt for Bridget.

The best description he could come up with was that he was comfortable with her. Perhaps to others that would have seemed too trivial of a feeling, but to him it meant more than all the craziness people associated with love put together. For the first time in his life, he felt completely at ease with another human being, well, an immortal being, but that was semantics.

With Bridget, he was no longer alone in the world, and that meant everything to him.

Naturally, the passion and attraction were there, but they were merely a bonus and not the most important components of what made his relationship with Bridget unique.

Turner had been attracted to plenty of women in his lifetime, but he could think of none of them as a potential life partner. In fact, the thought was as appealing as being strapped to a chair and getting tortured.

“Here is your water. Would you like a basket of bread?” The waitress smiled sweetly.

“No, thank you.” To maintain his physique, Turner had to watch his carb intake, especially given that his training routine had shrunken to a third of what it used to be before he’d met Bridget.

Was cohabiting with a woman the reason married men grew flabby middles?

Given the many jokes floating around about the misery of marriage, Turner would have thought the opposite should have been true. If someone was unhappy at home, an evening training session was a good excuse to get out and spend a couple of hours away from the wife, not to mention that physical activity was a constructive way to release aggression. But since that was obviously not happening, the jokes must have been a lie, and most married men must have enjoyed staying home with their wives and their kids.

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