Dry as Rain by Gina Holmes

Author:Gina Holmes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Christian / General, FICTION / General
ISBN: 9781414365442
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2011-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Two

It had been almost a week since Kyra had gone to Milan with her sister. I called her every day on my lunch break, which was every night her time. I always started the conversation the same way, and today was no different. “Hey, lover, how was your day?”

“Incredible,” she said. “You wouldn’t believe what we did.”

“Do I want to know?”

“Probably not.”

“Does it involve other men?”

I took her pause to be playfully deliberate. “Yes. Lots.”

“Were they good-looking?”

Another pause.

“Were they straight?”

She laughed. “I didn’t ask, but all except one were awfully effeminate.”

“What about the straight one? Was he attractive?”

“In an old-guy sort of way, I guess.”

I chuckled. “Tell him if he touches you, I’ll kill him.”

“I don’t think it would do any good.”

“He can’t be swayed away from your charms, eh? I can’t blame him.”

“No, he’s deaf.”

“He’s what?”

“Very funny.”

“Hey,” I said, “you’re coming home in a few days.”

“Don’t remind me,” she said.

“Don’t sound so thrilled.”

“It’s just there’s so much to see here.”

“There’s lots to see here, too,” I said. “We’ve got the freeway, Piggly Wiggly, the science museum, and that pool on the corner of Arlington and Sherwood with the green water.”

“And the handsomest man in the world. Don’t forget about him.”

“Who is he? I’ll kill him, too.”

“Be sure to leave me a suicide note if you do.”

“Come home now,” I said, missing her so much it hurt.

“You come here.”

Sometimes we talked until she fell asleep like when we were dating. Sometimes she was on her way out to some fashion gala or another with Marnie and her entourage of Italian designers, and I had just enough time to tell her how much I missed her. Boy, did I miss her.

With each passing day, I fell more and more in love with my wife and more and more terrified she’d remember the incriminating e-mail. I knew the right thing to do was to tell her the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. After all, I’d finally leveled with Danielle and survived to tell the tale. But Kyra was a different story. I wasn’t completely oblivious to the fact that my rationalization was pathetic, but my heart didn’t care.

Danielle didn’t get that job in Leesboro, and I doubt she even really applied, but Thompson had decided to take care of her in his own way. Somehow he got wind of what had happened, and to placate her—or just to remove her from my sight, I’m not sure which—he bumped her up to the finance department. She seemed content now that her cubicle, title, and paycheck were all larger. Even though she still wrinkled her nose like she smelled roadkill every time our paths crossed, she at least wasn’t sulking anymore. She’d moved on, and with my son coming home tomorrow and my wife the day after, I was anxious to do the same.

If Benji and Marnie could both be persuaded not to remind Kyra about my betrayal, we might just be okay. Surely I could get them to see that reminding her of what I’d done would punish more than just me.

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