Home Again (Book 1- Endless Love series) by Kathleen Shoop

Author:Kathleen Shoop [Shoop, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathleen Shoop
Published: 2014-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

FOUR

HALE SAT IN the empty room, his hand resting on the spot that was still warm from April sitting there, so close, he thought their souls had touched. A final crack of thunder snapped over the house shutting the lights right back off. He felt the shakes, the fear, the panic setting in.

In addition to the involuntary, visceral reliving of the terror of that day with Andrew, a new fear was settling in. He was realizing he was getting close to April. The idea he would fail her like he did Andrew, petrified him. He glanced over his shoulder to be sure she wasn’t watching him. He didn’t want her to see his weakness, to wonder if he was as crazy as he felt.

He’d seen it in many of his friends, known the insanity of it, the ridiculousness of being thrown into internal chaos even when perfectly safe, oceans away from danger of any sort. He knew how ugly it looked to people who’d never felt it. He didn’t want to frighten her; he was sure he could conquer it if he just tried hard enough.

He pushed his thoughts to April. She was so confused, swinging between all manner of emotion in regard to her family, her ex, her brother. This kind of woman—the confused, needy type who didn’t know she needed someone—was typically the type he ran a six-minute mile away from. But April, she was different. She had become a woman, someone he didn’t know very well on one hand, but on another, he knew her as if she’d been with him every minute since he’d left Harrington years before.

Andrew had always updated him on what April was up to. Once they were in Vietnam, Andrew had friends back in New York who kept tabs on her, send articles about her and her work, including the feature in Life, which named her one of the women making a difference in the world. She did this by writing about and photographing women who were struggling to feed their families once they were widowed by the war.

He’d forced himself to set the last of the buckets under the leaks and headed downstairs. He stopped before he reached the steps and saw April, now in the yellow guest room. She stood, hands on hips, buckets in her grip, concentrating on tracing the water trail, talking to herself as though plotting an attack.

Hale thought he could smell the mold forming as the humid air combined with the moist wallpaper. He didn’t know why April’s parents had ignored the house. Perhaps they simply couldn’t handle visiting the place that held so much happiness between its walls. That was partly his fault, so he would do his best to help maintain the home they all loved so much, whether April wanted the help or not.

He watched her place the bucket under a new stream of water. In the spots where the drips were fast and straight, it was easy to catch the water and monitor when they needed to be emptied.

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