Late Last Night (River Bend) by Darcy Lilian

Author:Darcy, Lilian [Darcy, Lilian]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: The Tule Publishing Group LLC
Published: 2014-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

Kate yawned as she navigated her way through the breakfast routine on the ranch. She was pretty good at it by now, as it mostly fell to her, even when Rob and Melinda were here. Rob was always out working by this hour, and Melinda tended to hover in the background, worrying out loud about whether the kids should take coats or jackets, and where their school library books were.

Today, Friday, Rob was out branding with a couple of hired hands, while Melinda was still at the hospital with Jamie. He was a mischievous little monster, and a sweetheart, and a fanatic about rodeo. His scan on Wednesday night had shown a tiny bleed between the lobes of the brain, but his behavior had been perfectly normal over the past twenty-four hours, and Melinda had called half an hour ago with the update that he would be discharged this morning. “I’m sorry, Kate, I don’t know when we’ll get away, though. If you can get the kids to school…”

“Of course.”

“I’m so sorry about Wednesday night, making you come home early.”

“It’s fine, Melinda.”

Those long kisses, the challenge she hadn’t meant to set, but that Harrison had risen to with exceptional skill… every time she thought about it, she melted and couldn’t stop smiling, still. And she wanted so much to see him, or hear from him, because there was a little vulnerability in the mix, too. It was a pretty naked thing to do, letting a man do that to her, showing so much of herself to him while he stayed… not exactly in control, but with his eyes open.

Had he kept his eyes open? She didn’t know, because hers had been blissfully closed.

When the kids were finally on their way down to the gate to wait for the bus, she hurried into the shower and washed herself with the same fresh awareness of her own body that she’d had yesterday. Her skin felt so sensitive, so aware.

Away in Helena, in the dry atmosphere of a court room, she wondered if Harrison was feeling the same thing.

She floated off to school, passing the kids’ bus for Marietta Elementary on the way. Several years ago, when Rose and then RJ had started school, they’d tried having Kate drop the children off at school in the mornings, but it hadn’t worked once there were two of them. The chaos of trying to get herself ready while the children were still in the house, and then the bickering in the back seat as she drove. By the time the triplets started kindergarten, the bus was an established routine that had saved her sanity.

Or maybe it had just postponed the time when the pressure became too much.

I’m moving into my own place…

The thought brought calm, and calm made her think of Harrison, and thinking of Harrison made her smile. Again. And flutter with sudden doubt. Again.

She arrived at school actively looking forward to helping the prom committee finish decorating the gym for tonight’s big event, even though it would take her entire lunch hour and the free period that came after it.

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