If I'd Never Known Your Love by Georgia Bockoven

Author:Georgia Bockoven
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

David cleaned the trout, put it in the refrigerator for that night’s dinner and began his morning routine—an hour going over the pages he’d written the day before in an attempt to breathe life into them with revisions. At the end of the hour, he would give up, delete everything and begin the three hours he spent at the typewriter each day creating the prose that would end up deleted the next day. Only twice since he’d been there had he kept any of his work longer than twenty-four hours.

His agent insisted it wasn’t David’s talent that had dried up;it was his ability to judge his own work. But he was the only one he cared about pleasing, and in his mind he hadn’t written anything worth publishing in four years.

Today it was more than the usual fear and frustration that kept him from sitting at his desk and starting work that used to come as easily as breathing. When Mary Stephens made her monthly call to find out how things were going and see if he needed anything, she’d told him about the recently widowed woman who would be staying at the main house for the summer and asked if he would mind seeing that she got settled in okay. Widow implied a stereotype that Julia McDonald didn’t fit. He’d expected someone older, someone content to sit on the porch or watch talk shows on the satellite television in the afternoons, someone with enough life experiences to actually want her privacy, too.

Instead, this wounded creature had arrived, still young and vibrant and undoubtedly aching to be a part of life again—not a combination for a woman content to keep her own company.

Even recognizing the unfairness of his assumptions, David let them color his impressions. No wonder he’d slipped into this abyss of depression. Where was the man who’d eagerly sought out people, the one who got up in the morning knowing, without question, that something new, someone new, would cross his path that day and his life would be richer for it?

He’d found the caretaker’s job through friends, the couple who’d hired him, Harold and Mary Stephens, unaware they were hiring a man to do menial chores whose wealth matched their own. He’d hoped the isolation would either rekindle the fire that once had fueled his passion to write or let him walk away.

What he’d learned was that his anger at injustice still burned as hot, but without the naiveté of youth to sustain the belief that anger could foster change, he had no words.

He sat down at his desk, just him, a mug of coffee and his temperamental laptop…and thoughts of a beautiful and sad woman who’d appeared in his life unbidden and unwelcome.

Two more months and his self-imposed exile would be over. In a way the prospect intrigued him. Not since his years on the road had he felt the heady freedom that came with being unaccountable to anyone or anything.

Perhaps he should thank Julia McDonald for hurrying the process along.

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