Love on a Summer Night by Zoe York

Author:Zoe York [York, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: military romance
Publisher: ZoYo Press
Published: 2015-11-23T23:00:00+00:00

— TWELVE —

THE house was suddenly very, very quiet.

Faith stood in the doorway, watching Zander dry the last two plates and listening to her mother climb the stairs at the same time. At the top of the landing there was a door to the granny flat above the garage, where Miriam had made her own space. Faith tipped her gaze up, staring at the ceiling as she heard the door open, then some rustling around. Miriam went into the main bathroom between Eric’s room and the spare room and got the baby monitor Faith had left on the counter.

Her mother knew her so well, for better or worse. Miriam knew that Faith needed someone else to keep an ear out for Eric…and that she wanted to be alone with Zander.

From the way he was blushing, he knew all of that too.

And the house was too damn quiet to share that knowledge in any other way than with equally embarrassed looks.

She crossed through the kitchen to the living room and turned on the stereo, which they kept tuned to public radio, and on a Friday night, that meant a weekly lecture series. Someone was talking about the meaning of “self” and individuality.

An excellent question for the end of a week where Zander had made her reconsider every notion she had about herself. He’d stormed into her life and given her ideas and fears and hopes and desires, and now they had one more night, a bonus chance to say goodbye properly.

He was done with the dishes, and he met her in the middle of the room. She looped her fingers through his. She couldn’t imagine a more unexpectedly natural feeling in the world than holding his hand, ready to lead him away from this domestic scene to something more private.

She’d been a mother for so long, and only a mother, that she’d thought this selfishness would be harder.

From the second he’d been born, her son had owned her heart, and raising him—getting to see him grow and learn—it was a gift. It didn’t feel hard fought at all, and she knew she was lucky for that. But the few times she’d tried to take something like this for herself, it had felt wrong.

This ease with Zander shook her to her core because this wasn’t supposed to happen.

Not with him. Not to her.

She wasn’t this lucky.

She led him down the hallway to the small craft room tucked in behind the living room—the furthest point in the house from her mother’s room, safely tucked around the corner from the living room. It had a long, comfortable couch…and the door locked.

She whispered for him to pull it closed behind him while she moved further into the room to find the lamp.

The click of the latch was like a starter’s pistol—both in imagined volume and in a metaphorical start to this most private part of what had been an unexpectedly lovely evening already. He’d closed the door before she got the light turned on, and then he was behind her, his arms around her waist and his mouth on the back of her neck.

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