Informed Risk and A Hero For Sophie Jones by Robyn Carr

Author:Robyn Carr [Carr, Robyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-07-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

When Chris awoke Mike and Cheeks were gone. She didn’t have the time for the luxury of lying still and contemplating the past month and the decision she had made to end it; there was a great deal to be done before going to the airport. She hadn’t made contact with Flo—where was her aunt these days?

As she hurried around the house gathering up their belongings, scraping their presence from his house, she could not still her mind. What was going to prove the most difficult to live without? The way he was with the kids? Like he should have a dozen. Natural and decisive, he never made hesitant or wrong choices for them. He spoke their language, found the right pastimes, the right jokes, and practiced affirmative discipline that showed them how good they were, how smart.

Or would it be even harder to live without the way he was with Chris’s body? As though he had known it for twenty years and was, at the same time, just working up a sweat in the first round. How could you feel wild and nurtured at the same time? Frenzied yet companionable? Out of your mind with out-of-control passion but perfectly safe? You could feel this way with a man who trusted easily and gave everything he had.

Or would the hardest thing be giving up that fanciful, foolish, idealistic notion that one could have a unit of people bonded by love, fraught with ups and downs, fronts and backs, joy and pain, a circle that actually closed around them and was tied with the knot of trust? The belief that it could be settled, ironed out, renewed. Yes, that might be hardest. Had she really fantasized fighting and then making up? Sure. Before she had lived it. Before his temper had erupted and the first punch he threw hit her square in the only identity she had.

She had not, after all, asked him to become different from the man with whom she had fallen in love. Had she?

When she went into the kitchen she found his note.

“I did all the things I have to say. Love, M.”

That was Mike. Mike was better with actions than with words. When he was forced to confront his feelings, they were pretty hectic. What he wanted, she guessed, would be for them to forsake Aunt Flo, the money, the past. She almost wished she could.

There was quite a lot to pack, plus Christmas presents, opened and unopened. Then there was the car, which she took to a used-car lot. She did not strike a bargain, but she did get a ride to the airport with all their things.

“You’re doing what?” Flo nearly shrieked. The airport was a mess. Hundreds of frustrated travelers fighting for space on overcrowded planes, airlines offering money for people who would give up their tickets. Chris held four first-class seats. Nonstop, Chicago.

“We’re going back to Chicago. Today. It’ll be a long wait—we don’t leave until five-thirty, but—”

“Christine, what in the world are you talking about?”

“Don’t start on me, Flo.

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