In Your Dreams by Gina Ardito

Author:Gina Ardito [Gina Ardito]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Goodreads: 18770800
Publisher: Victoria Ardito
Published: 2013-09-13T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

WHEN JACK AND HADLEY had returned from their honeymoon two and a half years ago, Jack had nine days before warning signs had started to flicker like broken neon lights.

Nine days.

Despite what she’d said about wanting to have a family as soon as possible, Hadley decided to stay on the Pill, which was fine. After all, she was the one who’d be pregnant and giving birth. It just wasn’t what she’d been telling him or their families.

She also didn’t want to work just yet; she just wanted to settle in first. Again, totally fine. She was living in a new town in a new part of the country. Of course she wanted to acclimate. Then, she said, she’d hang out a sign and start up her interior decorating business once more.

But now that the wedding was behind her and life started to settle into a routine, Hadley seemed a little...irritable. She was surprised there weren’t more events like the Black-and-White Ball, and her interest in doing wine tastings and guiding tours for Blue Heron quickly faded.

She went to a garden club meeting but didn’t join, saying it wasn’t for her. Joined the Art League, took two pottery classes and didn’t go back. Honor asked her to help with the Manningsport Women’s Club, which was organizing a tour of homes as a fund-raiser for local scholarships, but Hadley came back from that saying it made her sad, what passed for graciousness “here in the North.”

“Don’t be a snob, honey,” Jack said, pouring her wine.

“Well, come on, babe,” she returned. “You’ve been to Savannah. You know what I’m used to.” Then she gave him a sheepish look. “Sorry. I’m just feeling a little out of sorts.” Then she wandered off to her computer, calling him over to look at the Christmas decorating ideas she’d found online, even though it was still summertime.

She was alone in the house a lot. Pru and Honor invited her out a couple of times, but the sister Hadley most liked was Faith, and Faith was in California.

And then there was Lazarus, the cat who lived with Jack.

To say it was his cat would be a stretch; Jack fed him and housed him, and Lazarus allowed it. Occasionally, Laz would jump onto Jack’s lap, knead his stomach for a few seconds, then make a hideous gacking sound and go off to parts unknown to murder and pillage the bird and rodent population. He was an ugly creature; tan with splotches of stripes, a shredded left ear and a crooked tail, wary of all humans except Jack.

When Jack first moved back to Manningsport, he’d been struck with a surprisingly strong yearning for his mother. He’d gone up to the family cemetery and sat there in the misting rain, a hard lump in his throat.

And then, from behind the gravestone of the first Holland who’d farmed this land, came a very small animal. It was battered and bleeding and matted to the point where Jack wasn’t even sure what it was, but then it mewed.

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