Don't Leave Me Breathless by A Kelly

Author:A Kelly [Kelly, A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781922363022
Published: 2020-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

Outside the Beam House, Summer stood still. She wished she’d let Scipio come to her when he’d got up from the sofa. Instead she’d run away to Burnie to get a new mobile phone, which really could’ve waited. The whole Napoleon vs Scipio thing had got out of hand. Napoleon would always remind her of Pierre and she resented it, and right there she’d realised how much she admired Scipio the neighbour, Joseph Russo, her Scipio, to the point that hope sprung in her: he might just be the man who saved her. Why was she scared? Wasn’t Bobby out of her life for now? And at least for the next five years (seven, Bernard had said, but she had to assume the worst).

Wasn’t Scipio the shore she had been sailing to? Maybe she wasn’t looking for a shore after all; maybe she had been in a storm too long, the sailboat drifting in the open sea was the only home she knew. Now the storm was gone, she was lost.

But there was something about Scipio. She’d seen a few grown men cry, but when Scipio cried, she hurt too. Migraine or not. The way he talked about the staffy at the shelter and Piper – there was something deep, not just for the animals, but towards her too. When he called her name, when he saw her smile, his eyes lit up. When she’d slapped and punched him, he replied with a soft gaze. When she cried, he cried with her. He’d never uttered words of a fairy-tale lover, but as her mum had told her, a man’s eyes would reveal more than what he said.

He’d been aroused when she sat behind him on the sofa (extremely, judging by the size of his bulge). And she had been too. But her fear of Bobby still lingered. How could she make love to a man if she was worried she was going to get him killed?

Besides, she knew very little about Scipio. He and Emily had not been like Tim and Sylvia, Summer established. What had he said? He missed his dog more than his wife. Summer smiled. Not a particularly common thing to say, but she understood. Admittedly, Scipio and Emily would’ve looked good as a couple, but there was no photo of them together she could see at his house. She’d noticed a few of Scipio and Cornelia, and a lot of photos of him and Piper, but Emily was always alone.

How important was his past? All he had done for Summer up to now was nothing short of gentlemanly – and amazing.

Wasn’t she free? Wasn’t he free?

Summer was barely a metre away from her front door. Perhaps Scipio had been watching her and wondering why she was standing on the stone step, holding her new mobile phone, staring at the glass pane he’d fixed the morning after her suicide attempt. Slowly she turned around.

It took a minute or two for Scipio to open the door. She could only imagine he was as perplexed as she was.

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