Improvisation by Karis Walsh

Author:Karis Walsh
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781602828728
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2013-05-01T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Tina walked through the empty hallway to Jan’s classroom. The door was closed, but it had a small window in it and she peered through. She expected to see students sitting quietly at their desks, most of them nodding off to sleep over their textbooks, while Jan lectured about…Tina struggled to remember her high-school geometry class. Triangles and the Pythagorean Theorem and polygons. Pi.

Instead she saw what looked like a day-care center. The desks had been pushed back against the walls, and all the students were sitting on the floor playing with toy trucks and cars. Jan was on her hands and knees with them, wearing a red T-shirt and black jeans. Snug black jeans. Tina stared at the inch of pale skin showing between Jan’s shirt and her jeans. She struggled to swallow her surge of arousal, to banish the memory of Jan’s body pressed against her on the pier. She forced her attention off Jan’s ass and focused, instead, on her face. A few strands of deep gold hair had escaped her ponytail and curled softly against her cheeks. She looked as young as her students as she pushed her truck over a bridge and laughed along with the kids at some comment Tina couldn’t hear.

Tina tapped on the window, and the entire class turned to look her way. Jan’s laughter faded to a quizzical expression as she got to her feet.

“What are you doing here?” she asked as she edged out the door and left it slightly open behind her. The abruptness of her question was softened by a smile, and Tina reached over to tuck a loose lock of Jan’s hair behind her ear. She needed some contact. Any contact. Or she’d go crazy.

“I was worried about you…about your dad,” she said. “I’m meeting Peter here after his lunch with Chloe, and I wanted to check in with you.”

“Oh, thank you,” Jan said, not looking directly at Tina. “Dad’s fine. He’s coming back home on Thursday.”

“I’m glad,” Tina said. She leaned a hand against the wall next to Jan, standing close enough to smell a hint of lavender but not close enough to be able to tell if it was from Jan’s hair or her clothes. She wanted to find out. “Too bad you couldn’t stay Saturday night. You would have loved the band. And, thanks to you, I had to sit in the backseat of the car and watch the two lovebirds cooing at each other all the way home.”

“I thought you’d end up spending the night in Coeur d’Alene.”

“No reason to,” Tina said. She didn’t elaborate. She could easily have found a place to stay for the night, either with Kris or one of the other women who had shown interest, but she had decided to come straight back to Spokane. Even though Jan had left their little party, Tina had still felt her presence. Watching. Judging? Tina hadn’t wanted to seduce another woman and take care of her own needs while Jan was alone and scared, taking care of her dad.

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