Lost and Found by Jayne Ann Krentz

Author:Jayne Ann Krentz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781101214442
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2001-10-31T22:00:00+00:00

A long time later Cady came to a halt and leaned on the steel railing that guarded the waterfront path. She looked out over the moonlit surface of the bay to where the lights of the city glittered in the night. She was exhausted and keyed up at the same time. It had not been a comfortable evening.

She turned toward Mack. “All right, go ahead and say it.”

He came to a halt beside her and leaned back against the railing, looking at the homes that marched up the hillside. “Okay, I’ll say it. You and Randall Post seem pretty friendly for a couple that was divorced three years go.”

“It was a friendly divorce.”

He nodded. “I’ve heard about those. Never actually seen one, though.”

“Well, now you have.”

“Why’d you two get married in the first place?”

“You don’t think he’s my type?”

“No.”

“You think you know what my type is?”

“I’m not going there.” He sounded slightly amused. “I just know that Randall Post wasn’t for you.”

“How do you know that?”

“Male intuition.”

“So, there is such a thing?”

“Sure. Real men don’t talk about it much, that’s all.”

“I can see where it might be a little awkward to discuss in mixed company.”

“Sort of like telling off-color jokes.” He contemplated the hillside lights for a moment. “So, why’d you marry him?”

“For a long time I assumed the experience of falling in love would be a lot like looking at a really fine work of art. I’d know the real thing when I saw it.”

“Sometimes it is like that.”

“Maybe. But I have a hunch that most cases of falling in love at first sight are actually cases of falling in lust. Sometimes you get lucky and the relationship works on other levels. But you can’t count on that happening. The thing is, if you’re one of the lucky ones, you don’t go back and question your good fortune. You just assume your intuition was right on target.”

“And if you’re one of the unlucky ones?”

“You obsess on what went wrong and you ask yourself how you could have been so dumb.”

“I take it you obsessed for a while?”

“Sure. I’m good at that.” She hesitated. “What was it like for you when you decided to get married?”

“I was one of the lucky ones. Love at first sight. Rachel and I met during our sophomore year at college. I took one look at her and never looked twice at anyone else. We got pregnant in our junior year. Ran off to Vegas to get married. Everyone in both families had a fit. Dewey and Notch were the only ones who sent gifts.”

“Your families were probably afraid that you wouldn’t finish college.”

“Marriage did delay things for us. I joined the army and we went into debt and in the end we managed to work things out. When Gabriella came along the following year, all was forgiven.”

“How did you lose your wife?”

“Drunk driver.”

“Dear heaven.”

“Yeah. You feel so much rage for a time and there’s nowhere to go with it. You want to talk obsession? I can tell you all about obsession.

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