Home for Christmas Series Box Set Duet by Di Jones

Author:Di Jones
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Write from the Heart Publications
Published: 2019-12-18T23:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

Harmony

Harmony hadn’t spent a moment worrying that Emery would have left town. He might have threatened to, but she knew he wasn’t hard-hearted enough to do it. Not this time around, not now that they had reconnected and wanted to be together. And the fact that he’d rung her so many times proved how much he cared. Was she going to return his calls? No, of course not…not when she could make him suffer a little bit. Anyway, she’d see him soon enough at the rehearsal. She was dreading it, because someone would have to back down and that someone wasn’t going to be her. Yet she didn’t want anyone else to feel the tension between them and be uncomfortable. Hopefully they could smooth things over, at least enough so that it wouldn’t have a detrimental effect on the show. Final rehearsals were always difficult, with last minute technical hitches and performers’ nerves to soothe, and what she most needed to feel at the end of this evening was that the performers would excel and be confident on opening night.

The concert had to come first, she told herself, and then later she could deal with everything else. That is, if there was anything else. Because despite the fact he cared about her, maybe they didn’t have a future at all, and maybe some of the hard words that had been said between them had a seed of truth in them. A lot of time had passed since they’d been sweethearts years ago, and perhaps she’d been foolish to believe—even for a short period of time—that they could recapture what they once had. It hardly ever happened that way, so why should she expect she’d be lucky enough to get her fairy tale ending? She wouldn’t, she already knew that. But they could be friends who could do this Christmas concert together…then they could go their own ways. It hurt thinking about it, but she had to keep things in focus. At the moment the only important thing was the concert. The whole town—including loads of her kids—was looking forward to it, and she knew Emery, consummate professional that he was, would be there.

But when she got to the auditorium at seven o’clock, half an hour before rehearsals, she didn’t see him. She scanned the hall, registering that a few volunteers had already arrived, but no Emery. She took a seat in the front row and pulled out her cellphone. Yes, she had the time right, and no, he hadn’t left a message, or at least not since the ones she’d refused to return.

She got up from her seat and walked around, touching base with everyone there. “Have you seen Emery?” she asked one, then another.

No one had seen him since the rehearsal the day before. Disappointed but undeterred she busied herself as the children and their parents started to arrive, carrying costumes and props. By seven thirty her stomach was tight and knotted, and apprehension pushed bile in her esophagus.

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