Dream a Little Dream by Melinda Curtis

Author:Melinda Curtis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2021-02-23T00:00:00+00:00

Darcy’s alarm went off far too soon, jolting her out of a sound sleep.

She’d gone to bed last night comfortable with the truths she’d shared with Jason about her marriage to George but ruing the fact that she hadn’t told him she’d been a juvenile delinquent.

She rolled over and stared in the direction of the alarm clock. The numbers were obscured. She must have left something on the bedside table.

She rubbed her eyes and sat up. The gray light of dawn peeping through the window revealed the obstruction.

A Coke can had been placed in a glass tumbler with ice, so that the can was kept cold. It blocked her view of the time.

“Jason?” Her bedroom door was closed but not latched. She smiled. This was their normal. He’d leave her an iced can of Coke in the morning and go for a run.

She turned on the bedroom light. A scrap of paper with two scribbled words sat on top of the can: Love, Jason.

Jason loves me.

She put Stogey on the carpet, where he stretched and yawned and released a characteristic toot.

She popped open the Coke and poured half its contents over ice. Jason would be out somewhere running, starting his day with miles logged while she slept.

“Just warming up,” he’d say, flashing that trademark grin upon his return.

Darcy drank the soda while padding down the hall to the kitchen door. “Come on, Stogey.” She put on a jacket over her pajamas, slipped her bare feet into plastic rainboots, and escorted the dog outside.

The sun was coloring the horizon pinkish orange, chasing away the mists clinging to the grass. The pond was still. She sucked down more Coke while Stogey went right out to the grass and relieved himself.

Love, Jason.

It might have been the caffeine and sugar surging in her system, but everything seemed on the track of rightness. Her judge’s robes had arrived special delivery. Tina Marie was no longer openly hostile. And Stogey was promptly taking care of business outside.

Footfalls approached.

She and Stogey turned to see Jason jogging down the drive. Sweat soaked his hair and dampened his shirt. His tan legs were thickly muscled, despite the ugly-looking scars above his right knee.

“Just warming up.” He slowed a few feet away and came to a stop with a lurch. He reached for his leg, almost as if he’d pulled a muscle, and then straightened and gave her a smile with all the dimples. “You should shower while I make eggs.” He kissed her forehead and proceeded up the steps, limping a little and calling for Stogey to follow.

Darcy’s skin tingled where he’d kissed her. She sipped her cold Coke. Stogey waddled toward the door, pausing at the top step to glance back at her, waiting.

Everything’s going to be okay.

She didn’t dare believe it.

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